Feeling Fear?  Listen to your body

Feeling Fear? Listen to your body

I recently heard the best advice on how to handle crippling fear.  I was listening to a women caller recently who expressed extreme fear when contemplating taking the first step to market her business.  She said she created her web copy, designed her marketing materials, researched the needs of her potential clients but was tooContinue Reading

Résumé 2.0: Seven Ways to Upgrade your Résumé

1.  Personalize as well as customize your résumé. 2.  Don’t just list your job description and tasks in each job. Describe the goals and reasons you were hired and how you achieved them. 3.  Liz Ryan, workplace expert and in demand speaker says to avoid, “corporate speak” such as “results oriented individual”, “excellent communication skills”Continue Reading

Confidence Building for Women Job Seekers: 7 Action Steps

1.  Assess where you are.  After being laid off and not getting hired after multiple interviews you must check in with yourself about how you’re feeling emotionally • Are you feeling like a failure? Are you feeling rejected? • Being accepted is one of our most primal and primary desires in life 2.  Don’t takeContinue Reading

Three Keys to a Purpose-Driven Resume

Three Keys to a Purpose-Driven Resume

Guest Post by  Jessica Holbrook, CEO of Great Resumes Fast We’ve all heard of the book, but what a great principle to apply to our resumes, cover letters, and job searches.  Instead of utilizing a generic or jack of all trades (and master of none) resume, we should be using (and with great success) aContinue Reading

9 Weeks

9 Weeks

Here is a quick update on my workout plan for St. Thomas.  We have 9 weeks to go and I have lost 2.5 pounds and 2 inches off my waist.  I am very proud of myself and am motivated to keep it going.  My husband has lost 4 pounds and 3 inches.  He is lookingContinue Reading

12 Weeks

12 Weeks

My husband and I have challenged ourselves to get healthier in 12 weeks. We have a caribbean wedding to go to in April and this is our motivation.   I have more pounds and  waist inches to melt away but we are both supporting each other on this quest. We have yet to think ofContinue Reading