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Looking for some exercises/ideas to help you get started, without the annoying pay-someone-money thing? Here are some freakin’ awesome, freakin’ fun, freakin’ eye-opening exercises that I created for you to do on your own, no strings attached. Like Pinocchio (eventually)!

• Needing to break a goal down into bite-size pieces, but in a Candy Land type way with rewards along the trail? I thought so! Download my Goal Game and print it out for each goal ya got.
• I also put together some Rockin’ Resume tips for ya. No need to thank me, but I’d happily accept any & all gift baskets or baked goods.
• When everything is building and building until you just want to scream/pull your hair out/run away from home/find your pacifier (I used to call mine a “blah blah”), what do you do? How can you calm yourself down into prioritizing your tasks and breathing again? Calming Channels to the rescue!
• I love celebrating both the big wins & the lil’ wins, & I use this Cheerful Celebration list to choose how I’m gonna party (throwing a literal party not necessary, but part of the list).
• If you’re looking for the downloads for DIY Online Workshops: Best Practices and Worst Mistakes from SXSW 2011, you’re in the right place! Click here for the Punch List and here for the Resources Page. Enjoy!
• Yup – I’m tooting my own horn people! In order to expand on the inspiration mini-project, I created this page to hold the ways that others find me inspiring!
• Ooh, I love me some Quotes! Here are some of my recent faves to give you some a-ha! inspiration.

I’ve found a new love of my life, and that is Springpad. Think of delicious + Evernote + Pinterest-ish x amazeballs. I have notebooks for all my projects and ideas, and created one I made public called, fittingly Lovable Links. Because clicking on it and seeing approximately a katrillion tags might make your head explode, I wanted to break it down here so you can find exactly what you want. That said, my super fave tag gets to the heart of the books and products I love the most, so feel free to go there first to find out what I use/love/recommend/pimp myself.

Here’s the more detailed breakdown, because there are about 300 links here & I’m organized/anal like that:

Discovery<– Click here if you’re unsure what you wanna be when you grow up, and/or are in research mode, and want all the goodies that’ll help ya. But, to get more specific, you can also go right to:

• career profiles
• cover letter
• day job hell
• finance
• groups
• not for profit
• interview
• inspiration
• insurance
• personality type
• Renaissance Soul
• tests
• schools
• job search engine
  • freelance
  • internships
• uniquity

Action <–Click here if you know what you wanna do when you grow up but you’re unsure how to make it happen/you’re doing it already but it’s just not jazzin’ how you want. Otherwise, you can find what you’re lookin’ for specifically by going to:

• blogs
• book proposal
• build-a-site
• business building <–these are general sites that have a bunch of tools/resources, & I didn’t really know where to put ‘em.
• financial
• groups
• legal
• marketing
  • branding
  • copywriting
• newsletter
• photos
• platforms (don’t forget to go to my super faves to see which ones I heart the mostest!)
  • build-a-site
  • conference
  • CRM
  • email
  • file hosting
  • financial
  • invoicing
  • mind maps
  • newsletter
  • productivity
  • project management
  • publishing
  • SEO
  • stock photos
  • video
• portfolio
• pricing
• productivity
  • organization
  • self-care
• resume
• social media
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • twitter
• spreadsheets
• tutorials
• web hosting
• workspace

People <–Looking to hire someone for a specific product/service? Here are those I know and love:

• coach
• consultant
• copywriter
• designer
• PR
• VA

And straddling both Action and Discovery and People is my Recommended Reading, which is essentially my Google Reader with a fancy-pants name.

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