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A Good Professional is like a GPS but Better

05/15/2015
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Tuscany When was the last time you got lost? If you’re anything like me, you’re tempted to say it’s been awhile. Technology has made getting lost pretty much impossible. If we take even one wrong turn, Google Maps will frantically start recalculating to put us back on course before we hit the next intersection. It feels like a relief to those…

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My Creative Business Model and How it’s Evolved

02/22/2015
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{maybe not this cold}  Some of you may have noticed that my posts have shifted considerably over the past few months to less rather than more. In the last year with all the time I’ve spent sitting in freezing cold hotel ballrooms looking at my business and thinking about what to do to make it…

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My 5 Rules for Life

01/13/2015
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{via pinterest} Have you ever thought about this statement with regards to an area in your life? “Every single day people stop when they don’t know what to do.” I talk to clients every day who tell me they have stopped shopping for their house because they’ve bought so many mistakes in the past and they…

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Fall Fashion in Seattle with Elizabeth & Maria

11/17/2014
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Elizabeth Jacobs Every Fall, Elizabeth and I go to Seattle for the weekend to do some shopping. It’s always beautiful and sunny and we love the restaurants there. We had fabulous meals, everywhere. Plus I introduced her to Chipotles where we had lunch on the way down as well as Sunday! So fresh and yummy. Our…

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Nova Scotia is Red & White

09/12/2014
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Today we’ve driven almost entirely around the North side of the Cabot Trail on Cape Breton Island. These were the muskoka chairs sitting outside the B&B we stayed at in Maitland. I love that so many people have one chair of each colour. This is the main house that was built in 1859. The wood flooring…

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Montreal & The Train to Halifax

09/10/2014
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  First stop on our way to Halifax, we had a 5 hour layover in Calgary on our way to Montreal so of course I had to see my first Nephew Luukas! It was so great to have dinner with him and catch up. We took the red eye to Montreal and then walked back…

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Our First Date

09/08/2014
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Terreeia and I in 2007 In 1998 I was in a six month leadership course with Landmark Education. Terreeia was the head coach. I didn’t like my coach. One day while in a coaching conversation with her I got totally frustrated and ended up saying some mean things. Immediately after I hung up the phone I felt bad and…

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How to Sell Toilet Paper and Learning to say No

07/24/2014
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So I’m here at BlogHer’14 in San Jose with my good friend Barbara Miller from Yes Spaces. We had registered for the conference months ago but I am so bad because I usually only read what I absolutely have to read. So I don’t check out the conference agenda until the night before my flight and I…

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What I Learned from My Dad

07/17/2014
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My Mom & Dad (Hellen & Paavo) My dad passed away last night. He was 87 years old and has been in a care home for over three years now with Parkinson’s disease. Although he was at the point where he could do nothing for himself except sit in a chair while he was being…

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Smile Sweetly and Ask Nicely While You’re on Vacation

05/17/2014
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It’s a good thing my brother-in-law Dr. Bill Jacobs is a good holiday planner because he’s directly responsible for the fact that Terreeia and I are here in Scottsdale, Arizona with my sister Elizabeth and my sweet nephews for 5 nights. William & Markus We’re staying at the Kimpton Firesky Resort & Spa. When we arrived in our looong…

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