Day 3: The Bells and Whistles You Need On Your Blog

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Mar 9, 2016 | Blogging

  {Have you checked out the free 7-day Start Your Blog Challenge? Sign up here.    Today’s lesson is all about some of the foundational things your blog needs to make it extra awesome before you start typing away with your awesome words. It looks like a long...

How to Have a Hard Conversation

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Mar 8, 2016 | Business

This month I had a couple hard conversations. They were not fun, and not something I looked forward to with great joy. Instead, as the hours ticked down to their kick-off time I was mostly shaking in my flip-flops and desperately trying to distract myself with any and...

Day 1: Why You Want to Blog

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Mar 7, 2016 | Blogging

Today we’re going to talk about WHY you want to blog, and why your WHY matters anyway. But first, let’s get introductions out of the way. I’m Claire Diaz-Ortiz. (AKA @Claire on the twitters.) I’ve been blogging for 11 years. 11 long-short, fast-slow crazy years of...

Why It’s True that What You Resist Persists

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Mar 2, 2016 | Business, Uncategorized

The Little Things One of the downsides of our cool lakeside home is that we have weird tap water I don’t like. By weird I mean it’s salty, and by “don’t like” I mean revile. It tastes semi normal at first, and then the aftertaste is a bit like you just bathed in a tub...

How To Stop: Day 21 of the #DesignYourDay Challenge

by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Mar 1, 2016 | Design Your Day, Design Your Day Challenge

It’s Day 21 of the 21 Days to #DesignYourDay Challenge in honor of my new book, Design Your Day: Be More Productive, Set Better Goals, and Live Life on Purpose! (See all the details about the book here.) To celebrate, each weekday for 21 days I’ll be over...