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Smiling Harbor Sunday

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Smiling Sunday

Sundays start so slowly. They take a while to get up and rolling. Sundays would be a perfect day for a walk in the early morning.

I’ve wasted too many beautiful Sundays doing things meant to make an easier Monday. Sunday should be a day that’s kept for doing special things.

Smiling harbor out my window

I’m starting a small Sunday tradition of drinking my coffee while looking out the window. It doesn’t sound like such a miracle until I mention a sunrise is in the view.

A Sunday sunrise miracle and a cup of coffee combine to make a great way to start me my mind thinking of new ways to see the world.

This Sunday morning, the harbor seems to be smiling back at me.

I hope you find a way to do the same thing.

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What You're Thinking, What Chris Brogan Said, and a Contest

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I've been thinking . . .

about what you’re thinking and about something Chris Brogan said.

Every day people ask me about you and my blog. They ask the about time I spend, about the investment and return. People make suggestions about how I might change things to make more money.

Chris Brogan said this about me on a blog post yesterday.

When I look at the networks people have built around them, there’s value there. Tangible value. Consider someone like Liz Strauss. She reaches out deeply into her community to build events like her popular and successful SOBCon. She gives and gives, and then when she needs something back, Liz has a strong network of multi-layered contacts to reach into for her needs.

It’s amazing, really. Liz alone is a powerhouse to hire, but if you really did give credit for her extended network, which reaches into the largest companies in the US, UK, and for all I know, the rest of the world.

How do you place a value on that?

I’m working on a new expanded version of the design of this blog. One that would make it easier for folks to see the depth and breath of what’s already here. Truth is that as I take back the keys, I’m working to get a training business off the ground. I could use your help and insights on a few things. Would you answer three questions for me?

  1. What do you hope to find when you come here?
  2. What would like me to see more of my blog?
  3. What product or service could I make to better serve people like you?

I’ve added a sign-up box for a community newsletter in my sidebar, if you’d like to participate more and to hear about new things coming, please sign up there.

I’m also giving away 10 — that’s TEN — free blog / business consultations ($1500/value) during the month of June. I’ll pick the winners from the most insightful comments on this post.

Chris said, “She gives and gives, and then when she needs something back, Liz has a strong network of multi-layered contacts to reach into for her needs.”

So I’m asking, will you help me make this an even more successful blog?

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No Matter How Much We Learn . . .

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We Stay the Same

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Last night, in answer to a challenge — one that I put to myself and one that came from a friend — I went back to work on an ebook that I started to put together way back when.

The reasons it never got finished are Internet typical — noise, clutter, other ideas, and being time poor got in the way. As I look back it was so close to finished, I also know that some of the reason it sat was a sheer sense of feeling overwhelmed by what I perceived that I didn’t know.

Last night, I tripped over this sentence in my biography written two years ago.

Liz is a writer, career coach, and strategic planner with a focus on blogging and strategic marketing.

It stopped me cold, because it’s the best description of exactly what I’m doing now. All of the fancy words on my business card, don’t say it nearly as well.

No matter how much we learn, we’re still best when we’re ourselves through and through. I’ll be finishing this ebook on how to write a Successful and Outstanding Blog.

The Internet can be a noisy room of messages that can make us constantly question what we’re supposed to do. Don’t be overwhelmed, stuck, or swayed in the wrong direction, find yourself, your passion, and be you.

If you need help with that, just ask.

Smiling on a Tuesday,
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Change the World: Be What You Need

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It Was a Decision

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My experience is that each of us has a time when someone has treated us unfairly. It’s what we do with those occasions, those stories, that make our lives and maybe change the world.

Not long ago, a friend told me about someone in his past who hurt him terribly. The person said my friend’s work, his life, and his being were worthless and cheap. I’ve never met a person who had no worth. If I do, I’m sure he or she would look nothing like the man who told me this.

At first, I wanted to help. Then I realized the story had happened over 20 years ago. Instead, I asked how that event had affected his life.

He said, “I decided I would be sure to show people their worth.”

Wow! Fix a hurt by being what you need.

We can change the world — just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

On a Street Called Hope

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What Would You Find On a Street Called Hope?

In a town somewhere,
does it matter where?
You can find Hope Street.

I walk down it in my mind.
A knowing look shines on the faces of the people I see.
Most can’t say how they found their way to Hope Street.

Hope Street

I can say that I don’t go there as often as I might.

What would you find on a street called Hope?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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