Why You Need an Ideas Notebook

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Here’s the scenario. You’re a writer, say. You put words on paper and put those papers into the hands of people who read them. Or maybe you put words on screens and let Twitter do your billing: I PUT A WORD HERE. COME READ IT. Whatever your method (paper, pen, computer), or your strategy for [...]

How Can I Help You?

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Claire here. You’re on my blog, ClaireDiazOrtiz.com, where I write things. Good things, bad things, things in the middle between bad and good. Today, I’m writing to ask you a kinda weird thing. Here goes. What do you need? Yup. Is there a way that I can help you? I’m not being weird. I’m genuinely [...]

Where Do You Have Excess?

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We all excess in our lives, and yesterday a smart man made me remember this fact. This week, I had another amazing time at Catalyst, a great leadership conference that takes place a few times a year in various cities. While in Orange County for the event, I got to spend a lovely evening at [...]

50 Ways to Say No

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I’m learning to say no. Heck, anyone who’s word of the year is REST better start getting better at it, right? In attempts to practice my NO muscle, I pulled together a list of 50 ways to go about saying the dirty word. The important part about NO? It should be: truthful, firm, and not [...]

My Word of the Year: Rest.

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Last week, I told you about the idea of creating a “word of the year”. One word to inform and synthesize the year you have ahead of you. One word to mean everything you want 2013 to be, and one word that will help serve as a guiding light when times get tough and you’re [...]

Why You Need a Word to Define Your Year

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I read a great thing recently, and I’m a bad person because I’m not 100% sure I remember where. I think it may have been in Gretchen Rubin’s Happier at Home — Rubin’s great second book about continuing the process of bringing more happiness into your daily life. But I’m not entirely sure it was [...]

Three Essential Questions to Help You Solve Problems

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We’ve all had them. Problems. Big, small, tiny, and massive. And we all seek to find the best ways to handle them every time they arise. Sometimes, they seem to fill entire days with their weighty, darkened skies. Problems can make a day one where nothing seems to go right, everything goes wrong, and you [...]

How to Set Life Goals for 2013

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By now, I imagine you’ve realized that the truth is staring you in the fact: It’s 2013. (Cue: So, what are you going to do about it?) For me, a new year is about new goals. Whether you got a chance to do goal-setting over the holidays before 2013 actually struck — or you’re just [...]

Want to Review My New Ebook — Lead by Morning?

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The other day, I mentioned that I’m launching a new ebook in the New Year. The New Year is here. And so is Lead by Morning: 365 Days of the Present Principle. Lead by Morning is a 365-Day morning motivational reader, aimed to help you get started on an excellent day. It’s based on my [...]

A Free Copy of My Ebook: The Present Principle

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Looking for a free copy of The Present Principle? Just enter your email address in the box below! In the New Year, I’ll be launching a new ebook called Lead by Morning. It’s a 365-day morning motivational reader aimed to get you started to greet the day. (If you would like to receive a free [...]