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By Dawn ShulerRecently published1 topic

The Importance of Having Fun

Business owners tend to be busy people. If your business is small, and even if you have a team (smart you!), you’re probably still pretty darn busy. There’s always more to do. Another networking meeting to attend. Another prospective client to call. Another program to design. Another marketing campaign to launch. More reports to run. The constant administrative work to do. Feel drained yet? Yep. That’s the problem. There is always more to do. You will not ever get to the end of your to-do list. Never.

Primary topic: Writing Tools
Writing Tools
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By Dawn ShulerRecently published1 topic

What Story Do Your Numbers Tell You?

Every year I’ve done somewhat of a review of my business for the last year. Usually, it’s revolved around revenue, including my most profitable service or program revenue streams and my highest grossing clients. I also plan what programs I’m going to offer in the next 6-12 months, and plan my marketing and launches around that. Smart business indeed. Well, as the maximizer that I am, this year I put all of that together and added a few pieces.

Primary topic: Writing Tools
Writing Tools
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By Dawn ShulerRecently published1 topic

What to Do When Things Don't Seem to Be Going Well

We all have those times when we are in the zone, when it’s all going well. We score the big client. We fill our programs. We get amazing feedback from an article we wrote that tells us we’re on the right path. The kids are good, the team won, the tea shop has your favorite tea in, and all the traffic lights are green. Life is damn good.

Primary topic: Writing Tools
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3 Simple Steps for Entrepreneurial Success

One characteristic that seems to be universal for entrepreneurs is that we have ideas. Not just an idea here or there, but a TON of ideas. Ideas every day. Multiple ideas in a day. You probably understand that you can’t act upon and bring to fruition every single idea. You have to be selective. Some ideas will work; others won’t. So, then you are stuck in a dilemma: do you take action or not? Not all ideas are worthy of taking to their end game, but how do you figure out which ideas are worthy? And so you might stay stuck, and you may not follow many ideas at all.

Primary topic: Writing Tools
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By Dawn ShulerRecently published1 topic

The Secret Behind Why We Don't Go After Our Dreams

As a business owner who works with other business owners, I see a lot of dreams. Sometimes these dreams take the form of little goals... I want to offer a new coaching program. Sometimes they take the form of medium goals... I want to facilitate a writing retreat. And then sometimes they take the form of a big-ass fantasy... I want to create a brand-new business to support women in transition. The thing is - big, medium, or small - it's scary to go after your dreams. That's an easy word to use - scary - but here's what that fear really feels like.

Primary topic: Writing Tools
Writing Tools
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5 Reasons to Break Writing Rules

As a lifelong writer, former English teacher, and writing coach and communication consultant for the last ten years, most people think that I write perfectly, no mistakes in grammar, structure, punctuation... it's all perfect. Nope! I don't write perfectly at all. Actually, I don't know that I ever write anything that an English teacher wouldn't get her red pen out for (case in point).

Primary topic: Writing Tools
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Go Deep. Let Go. Then Write.

When I created my Writing From Your Soul process several years ago, what came to mind was a spiral. Not just as a symbol for what we're doing when we try to connect with ourselves and the our community (go deeper, deeper, deeper, and deeper still), but the process itself fits within that spiral. Because I'm very much into symbols (you can take the girl out of the English teacher, but you can't take the English teacher out of the girl), I looked up "spiral" in The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Signs and Symbols.

Primary topic: Writing Tools
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Creating Sacred Space for Optimal Creation

A crucial component of writing from your soul is having the sacred space in which to do it. You can't just whip up something powerful, compelling, and from the heart in the five minutes between the conference call with Client A and the weekly meeting with your VA. When you're in sacred space, it's much easier for the message and the words to come through (or the new project design or painting or whatever). It's as if you become a conduit for the words from your soul. Sacred space allows that. Franticness, stress, busily checking off to-do's... none of that is conducive to sacred space.

Primary topic: Writing Tools
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By Dawn ShulerRecently published1 topic

Ready, Fire, Aim

I’ve had several coaching calls lately where my sweet little clients want everything to be perfect before they hit the “Go” button. They want “it” to be perfect. They want everything figured out. They want assurance that it’s all going to go to plan. Yeah….. that whole planning thing…. see, planning is great. You need plans. As Eisenhower said, “I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” At some point, you have to actually DO something. At that point, the plan is a useful guide, but the eventual outcome will always look different from the original plan.

Primary topic: Writing Tools
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