Just a really quick question today. If you could “pre-write” your obit (for far into the future, of course), how would you like the following statement to read? (being somewhat realistic, but still allowing for ultimate dreams).
[your name here] was best known for …
Now what would it take to make the first step towards [...]

Posted on August 13th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Motivation | 6 Comments »

I’m a big Reality TV fan. I love watching people carry out their daily lives for all the world to see. I often think, when she sees the playback of how she acted, she’ll realize what a jerk she was. What would happen if each of us could rewind our days and [...]

Posted on July 28th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Creativity Exercises | 2 Comments »

Performancing has finally opened up their new 125×125 ad service to everyone and EVERY blogger should sign up. With a simple WordPress plugin and one line of code in your theme’s sidebar, you’re ready to accept advertising, and Performancing handles all the details of getting that advertising for you. And because Performancing has [...]

Posted on July 25th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Making Money Online | 3 Comments »

Recently, I told you about Twellow.com and gave you a tip on how to make sure your Twitter account was properly categorized in this new Twitter directory. Today, I’m here to tell you that there’s a new better way to handle this. Twellow has just released an Edit Listing feature, that allows you [...]

Posted on July 11th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Forming Connections | No Comments »

I’m really excited to hear about Wendy’s latest project. Sorry, I’m getting ahead of myself. For those of you who don’t know who Wendy is, I’m referring to Wendy Piersall (aka eMom) who transformed her eMomsAtHome blog into a blockbuster work at home blogging network now called SparkPlugging. I’ve watched Wendy make [...]

Posted on July 10th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Making Money Online | 2 Comments »

My motto, borrowed from Smashmouth’s All Star, is “You’ll never shine if you don’t glow”. Make the choice. Recognize and share your light with everyone.

The above was written for The 25 Words of Work / Life Wisdom Writing Project

Posted on July 9th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Motivation | 5 Comments »

This is a question I’d love to get answers to in the comments below. What is holding you back? What is preventing you from getting your online business off the ground?
Fear of the unknown?
Worried that you aren’t capable?
Not sure how to get it going?
Don’t have time?
Think you need more money?
Think you need more [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Motivation | 6 Comments »

A new site has just emerged, called Twellow (Twitter Yellow Pages), and it’s a nice little directory of Twitter users. At the moment, it contains 332,261 Twitterers, with that number growing at all times, I assume. You can search for people in two ways: either a search across the entire directory, or just [...]

Posted on June 25th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Forming Connections | 7 Comments »

We all face the extra-long to-do list now and then. Because many of us wear lots of hats in our one-person businesses, and we don’t always have a team of people to help us out, our to-do lists can become unwieldy - sometimes to the point of outrageousness. Once a task list reach [...]

Posted on June 19th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: GTD | 8 Comments »

Since today is Friday the 13th, it seemed like the perfect time to talk about interacting with your readers at a really deep level - so deep in fact that it’s almost spooky. I’m talking about superstitions here. We humans are a superstitious lot, and I’d be willing to bet that even [...]

Posted on June 13th, 2008 by DazzlinDonna
Filed under: Forming Connections | 5 Comments »