I could feel myself teetering on the edge of "why bother" last Monday. (Yep, even people who do this for a living and who know that content marketing is a long game of trust building and credential establishing have weak moments.)
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Well Said Wednesday in Haiku: Typos
I firmly stand by the sentiment in the haiku. Yes, you should try to avoid typos. And you can feel bad about a typo. But you don’t need to feel that bad. Unless you are the diploma maker for fictional Elmdale College (my fellow Schitt’s Creek fans know what I mean!)
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Photo credit: Me and my word of the year: Creative + Courageous = Creageous
Well Said Wednesday: Because Listening To Your Own Voice is *Awesome* 😕 (said no one ever)
But once it was done, it was so incredibly hard to bring myself to listen to it! A million "what ifs" flooded my brain.
"What if my voice sounds ridiculous?"
"What if I say 'um' 1 million times?"
"What if I blather on and on and on and on and on..."
We get really creative when it comes to stalling, muting our voice and holding back our message.
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Well Said Wednesday in Haiku: Why You're Not Writing Today
We make up sooooo many roadblocks to getting content done, don’t we? Almost anything sounds better than staring down a blank page. But it doesn’t have to be that way…
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Well Said Wednesday: The Value of Celebrating the Small Stuff
During On Fridays, We Write, we complete three 45-minute working sprints. At the end of each one, everybody gets a gold star for their work. Just like we used to get as kids. Yep, I literally hold the Post-It up to the camera and say to each and every co-worker, “gold star for you!” My husband has heard the phrase so often in the year-plus he’s been working from home that he said it to me when I emptied the dishwasher!
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