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Personality Type: How It Impacts 3 Key Areas of Your Life
Do you know your personality type based on the Myers-Briggs personality assessment? If not, this is a tremendously beneficial tool in helping you understand yourself, your motivations and behavior, and how you interact with the people around you. And knowing the personality types of the people close to you is extremely helpful in understanding them and ... Continue Reading
The Secrets To Turning Your Passion Into Profit
If you've been reading Live Bold and Bloom for a while, you know how strongly I believe that bold living should incorporate finding your passion and making that passion part of your daily life. I proselytize about this because of my personal experience. I know how profoundly my life changed for the better when I found something ... Continue Reading
How the Internet Can Rock Your World
Up until the last two years, I spent a lot of time kvetching with my friends and family about how the Internet was going to morph people into anti-social, glazed over automatons. I was sure nothing good could come from spending hours on the computer, connecting with people online, and socializing without the benefit of an actual human being in the ... Continue Reading
A New Career: 34 Probing Questions to Prepare for Work You Love
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. ~ Dr. Wayne Dyer Follow your bliss. Do what you love. Live your passion. You know the truth in those words. You've heard them many times and have probably cogitated on how they apply to your life, your job. Am I doing ... Continue Reading
The Big Fat Perception Deception
"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly. We just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception." ~Alan Moore Too often we think about what we wish we had. We wish we had more ... Continue Reading
Want Freedom? How to Transition Out of the 9 to 5
"The past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future." ~Marilyn Ferguson Hands down, the best career decision I ever made was starting a blog. It has opened my eyes to non-traditional career and income models, providing a thrilling way to make money and enjoy freedom. Granted, when ... Continue Reading
Ready To Start Over? 4 Cool Careers That Don’t Take Years of Training
A few years ago, I wanted to start over with my career. I'd been in public relations off and on for over 25 years. When my oldest child left home, I had more time to devote to building my career, but I just couldn't get jazzed about cranking up my PR consultancy. I have changed over ... Continue Reading
Make Money Blogging: If I Can Do It, So Can You
The other day I sent out an e-mail to my regular subscribers (if you aren't one, I'd love you to join us). I wanted to share some personal information about myself and my experiences as a coach and blogger. Several people wrote back asking me how to start a successful online business and ... Continue Reading
Why You Should Be A Life-Long Learner
"All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind." ~Martin H. Fischer When I graduated from college, I remember feeling elated that I was done with school and could now go begin living my life. No more all-nighters studying for exams. No more boring professors droning on about mindless topics. I was ... Continue Reading
The Ultimate Gift to Yourself: A Big Box of Passion
"There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger." ~Saul Bellow Editor's Note: My new self-study program, Discover Your Passion: A Step-By-Step Course for ... Continue Reading
15 Tiny Actions to Strip Yourself Bare and Reveal Your Passion
In a recent survey, I asked my readers what they most worried about so that I could address those topics on Live Bold and Bloom. There were lots of different answers phrased in a variety of ways. But most ...
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Paralyzed By Your To-Do List? A Quick Guide to Prioritizing
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." ~Lin Yu Tang Do you have so many tasks, projects or interests that you are paralyzed by confusion and indecision? Are there so many ... Continue Reading
How To Design Your Own Life of Adventure
"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality ... Continue Reading
How My Blog Bloomed Boldly in Just 4 Months and Yours Can Too
Do you want to be a blogger? Here's how I went from being a computer illiterate to a blogging success in just a few months. Editor's Note: This post originally ran as a case study for the A List Blogging Bootcamps. Your blog can and will grow. But just like ... Continue Reading
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