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Too much

Image by the|G|™ via Flickr I can’t do it all. I find myself chasing after each new shiny penny that floats in front of me – and next thing you know I’m in a ditch with a broken ankle. The rest of the year I’m spending in taking a look at what I really really…

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Just another day in the USA

Today I’ll visit a friend, go see my dad, get my hair done and go out to lunch with Mel. I’ll listen to part of the Iowa – Iowa State game. I’ll work on some contract website jobs, make some phone calls and share the benefits of living in a chemical free home, cook some…

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Could Not Have Said It Better Myself

In today’s ‘free’ economy, we have become so used to getting things at no apparent cost to us, that many people actually start to believe that companies doing work for nothing is sustainable. At the end of the day, the sad fact is that money does need to change hands at some point because the…

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Advice for a Business

Make your website really a blog.  That looks like a website. Update often. Give back. Create affordable, easy websites.  I have always thought the ‘big guys’ are charging way too much.  And doing those static kind of things.  You know, putting up information and expecting people to come see it.  But there’s no reason for…

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Collections

Need someone to come pick up that old washing machine?  How about that TV that weighs a ton? We’ll do it! The Geneva United Methodist Church is having a fund raising Collection Event. Only this time there’s not a collection plate going around – it’s a fella named Tom and his crew in their vehicle. …

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How toMake Your Life a Drama-Free Zone

Every so often  Christine Kane writes something that speaks directly to me.  Thank God she agrees to let me put it on my blog!  I’m on a roller coaster ride in my personal life, and it’s pretty easy to be a drama queen.  Here’s some great advice on how to take the crown off. One…

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State of the Country

The pickers are running.  It’s early this year.  Temperatures at night are in the 50’s and in the 60’s and 70’s during the day.  Saturday we pick grapes.  The geese are still here, for now.  Catepillars are fat and fuzzy – means a cold winter.  Could it be the soybeans will be picked by early…

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140 Character Conference

140 Character Conference Just what is the 140 Character Conference?  Why would I want to go?  How does the day roll out?  How can I be a speaker?  These are all questions I’ve received in the past couple of weeks.  Let’s answer them! What is the 140 Character Conference? The 140 Characters Conference at the…

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Attitude Defines You

Attitude can make or break you.  In work, in play, in life. I knew a man who was negative all the time.  Things were never good enough.  People were always out to get him.  He expected the very worst to happen.  In actuality, he had a sound business idea, good staff and access to the…

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Default Mindset

I’m the daughter of a school teacher.  For 18 years growing up I thought September was really the beginning of the year.  And it was in our house.  That’s when we went back to school. I’ve been thinking ………. what if I went back to my default and considered September the beginning of the year?…

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