Things that Changed My Life Forever (in a good way)

These are people, ideas, and things that changed my life in a positive way. I could never be the same person I was before after I was exposed to them:

• What Color is Your Parachute? I first read this book when I was 22 and fresh out of college with barely a clue about what I could do to get a job. I never again, ever looked at job seeking and careers the same way. It enabled me to flip the whole “job seeker as unwanted supplicant” to job seeker as valuable solution to employers problems.
• 12 Step Program. Changed the way I viewed God from an abstract something or other that couldn’t care less about me to an always available unconditionally loving presence. Made me someone capable of getting married and being a mom.
• More soon

Things that Inspire Me

I’m working on some ideas around what inspires and energizes me. I figure it would be good to do more of these things!

• Making a referral: connecting someone with someone or something else that might help them move forward
• Writing
• A good conversation with a smart, talented person
• Watching my cats do their cat things
• Learning a practical, relevant, and out of the box way to make my life better
• Great graphic design
• Great, well made products that make my life better and add beauty

11/14 Making a Positive Difference in the World

Stuff I did over the last couple days that made a real, positive difference in the world.

• Told a client who I felt was spinning his wheels trying to do a brochure to let go of the damn brochure already and start developing his social network
• Helped a client further define her target customer definition. She’s gotten two customers and that makes me feel happy for her.
• Wrote copy for a client that was very heartfelt and captured the spirit of her inspirational CDs
• Wrote a little note about how my instructor’s errors made things feel more freeing to me and it made him feel really good.
• Offered a good example yesterday around how to write an article and how to create a story
• Referred someone to the DaVinci group

11/12 Making a Positive Difference

Things I did in the past few days or so that made a positive difference:

• Went for a walk with my son the other day to Blockbuster and rented the Bourne Identity
• Hung out with my husband and son and watched the movie together and ate popcorn
• Made a short packing list for our trip to Chicago which will lessen the stress factor because I’m not waiting until the very last minute
• Did everyone’s laundry
• Got our down comforter cleaned and put on the duvet cover. A small thing but I love the down comforter. Now we won’t have little bits of down floating all over the place (before we were using a comforter that was ripped a lot)
• Connected Joan Schlaefer and Rebecca Campbell, I’m hoping there’s a win win there
• Turned Barb onto Your Money or Your Life and to Holly Graves