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From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Taking the Mask of Your Excuses

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Wednesday Inspiration #20

Where the heart is willing, it will find a thousand ways; where it is unwilling, it will find a thousand excuses. – Arlen Price

The definition of excuse is “to explain (a fault or an offense) in the hope of being forgiven or understood.” Don’t be fooled into letting your excuses masquerade as reasons [...]

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Earn What You Deserve

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This 4-hour live workshop focuses on 5 steps you can use to overcome your fears about money and earn what you deserve.
Learn:

Five simple steps to increase earnings,
The myths of financial success, and
The signs of underearning.

Your registration includes:

4 – hour live seminar
Secrets of Successful High Earners workbook
Copy of Overcoming Underearning by Barbara Stanny
A [...]

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Four Reasons You Earn Less Than You Are Worth

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As I began preparing for my upcoming Earn What you Deserve workshop, I began reflecting back to when I began my journey towards earning a 6-figure income in corporate America. I remember spending  a lot of time in blame mode.   First, I blamed the system for not paying teachers enough. When I left teaching to [...]

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How to Have What Really Matters

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Wednesday Inspiration #19
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need [...]

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Guest Post: Book Review – Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office

Book Review – Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office by Lois P Frankel, PhD
By: Amy Franko
As women entrepreneurs, mompreneurs, business owners, and professionals, there are certain behaviors we have been socialized to engage in that can sabotage our success.
Women have typically been socialized to:

Avoid conflict
Be polite and soft-spoken
Be relationship oriented
Avoid assertive behavior
Put the [...]

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Keys to Building Your Brand: Knowledge

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We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge. – Rutherford D. Rogers
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. – Thomas Fuller
We live in a world right now where information is king, but knowledge is what makes or breaks the credibility of your brand.
Knowledge is defined as familiarity, awareness, or understanding gained through [...]

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DivaToolbox.com and Other Browseworthy Links

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This week’s browseworthy links…
1. While browsing through posts from my Linked In groups I came across DivaToolbox.com. In addition to career related information the toolbox hosts articles on family, money, and business. Great find: Be Fierce at Work and Five Things Every Newly Self-Employed Woman Should Know.
2. Who’s To Blame for the Digital Ceiling, posted [...]

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