Why You Need an Ideas Notebook

by clairediazortiz | May 20, 2013 | Goals

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,...

How to Set Up a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog (The Complete Guide)

by clairediazortiz | May 7, 2013 | Blogging, Business

{Have you checked out the free 7-day Start Your Blog Challenge? Sign up here.  Want a free PDF ebook of these instructions? Go here.   Starting a blog is one of the very best things that ever happened to me, and I love to share with folks why blogging is a great...

This Week in the World (Links)

by clairediazortiz | May 4, 2013 | Uncategorized

This week I continued another month of eating a modified Paleo diet. I saw Flight, with Denzel Washington, and remembered why I hate watching addicts in movies (although I did like the movie). I read a few more books, but was more proud to read an entire Vanity Fair,...

How Can I Help You?

by clairediazortiz | May 1, 2013 | Blogging, Business

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...

What the Most Successful People Do at Work

by clairediazortiz | Apr 25, 2013 | Books

Laura Vanderkam has done it again. Vanderkam, author of books like 168 Hours: You Have More Time than You Think, has become a feature in my email inbox ever since I read ones of her books for the first time and started emailing her incessantly. (I tend to do that....