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What a splendid way to honor your family, ancestors and heritage.

My friend Donlyn has created a beautiful blog honoring her family as well as the land and towns they helped develop.

This is a great example of how to use, show and tell the wonderful stories you have about your family as well as share it around the world with long lost relatives who can send you their photos by email and add their story to your site too.

Visit Homestead Origins now, click around and find scrumptious old recipes, see her beautiful family photos and great stories.

I’m SO grateful to have found this provider of free PDF formatting.

Go here and download and PDF away!

Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter” Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert

What’s “mobile marketing?

Don’t get left behind!

If you don’t know how to mobile market, you’re already behind the wave that’s moving very quickly. Go to Mobile Marketing Profits.com and find out what you need to know to up the bar on your business success.

©2008 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”  Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert   www.DrDeClutter.com

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Being organized in your thinking, marketing and development of your business is imperative to a successful business.

MISSION STATEMENT

Your mission statement for your business, your company, should be simple and doable. Make it fun too!

Google’s bzillion dollar company - started by two children! founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in a Stanford University dorm room – has a mission statement I love:

“Do no evil.” 

Okay, they have a more serious one too, “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” but “do no evil” is a good one.  

Another great example of a fun and doable mission statement that attracts the kind of employees and customers they want is The Great Harvest Bread Company . Started in the ’70s by  founders, Pete and Laura Wakeman in Durham, Conn., baking fresh-ground whole-wheat bread. Pete & Laura’s travels took them through the heart of Montana’s legendary wheat country. In 1976, the couple opened the first Great Harvest Bread Co. in Great Falls, Montana. See their history page on their site for their great story.

Okay, anyway, their mission statement is this:

“Be loose and have fun.

Bake phenomenal bread.

Run fast to help customers.

And give generously to others.”

See the cool sign at the Longmont Great Harvest Bread store here.

What is your mission statement?

Have a business that is seriously fun, productive, needed, wanted and loved.

P.S. Buy local, support local growers and businesses, including franchises like The Great Harvest Bread store.

©2008 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”  Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert   www.DrDeClutter.com

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You’ve written a book.

Now what??

Go to How To Market My Book.com and find out everything you need to know from the experts!

 ©2008 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”  Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert   www.DrDeClutter.com

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There are lots of blogs and sites for support out in etherland. Here’s one by one of my very good friends and colleagues, Kim Dushinski.

Check out High Tech Moms Club.

It’s a simple thing. We do it many times a day, sometimes not so much, but the one thing you can do to portray more confidence and self-respect is to smile.  That’s it! Pretty simple, huh?

People who smile more, genuinely care and smile, are:

• more respected
• more approachable
• easier to talk to
• more open to conversation, and
• can build more self-confidence and self-respect because thoughts follow and lead facial gestures.

Go for the wrinkles. Smile!

Regarding “focus”… people will focus on you more than sour and blank faces. Attract others’ focus with your inner joy, through smiling.

©2008 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”  Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert   www.DrDeClutter.com

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Research has shown for some time that smiling, whether you’re happy and it’s natural, or you “make yourself smile” literally changes the chemistry in a part of your brain that supports your feeling good and happy and positive.

Kick in your natural endorphins and happy brain center with a smile, even when you don’t want to, or forgot to! Watch it change your moments and your day toward a whole new direction.

©2008 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”  Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert   www.DrDeClutter.com

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In business and in life, do you set goals?

When we really want something to happen or change in our lives, setting goals to support the changes and challenge our current and past patterns is imperative.

A well used formula for effective goal setting is the S.M.A.R.T.  Method.

1. What to you want? Being human, it’s our nature to WANT stuff, change, something different from what we have. What do you want? Even if you think you don’t want anything, you want what you have and how it is. Everything changes, so it’s actually hard to keep everything the same as much as changing it.

After you’ve decided what you want, your goal or target for change, it’s important to identify WHY you want it.

2. The WHY is imperative to keep you excited, focused and headed toward and into what it’s going to take to get the result you want. The WHY should be alive, animated, juicy and with purpose to create self-motivation.

3. Now, employ the S.M.A.R.T. Method.

    SPECIFIC:  A general goal will not get you far. You must be specific about what you want. “My GOAL, what I WANT,  is to have a new car.  SPECIFICALLY, it will be a van, a later model around 2000, Honda Odessy, with a cassette player, looks and drives like brand new, light color like tan/gold, under $10,000, here in town.” That’s getting specific.

   MEASURABLE: Walking two miles a day is measurable. You can track, document and understand results from measurable goals. You either did it or you didn’t. Pretty simple!

  ACTION-ORIENTED: Thinking, dreaming and talking about what you want will not get you there. Every step in your Action Plan must be Action-Oriented. It’s your TO DO list, not your TO BE list!

   REASONABLE or REALISTIC: Some goals are way too broad, too hard, too something. Make sure you’re not shooting at the moon when it’s not realistic, but going to three job interviews in two weeks is.

   TIME-FRAMED: If there are not realistic deadlines as a Time-Frame for your goals, it will not get off the ground. “By Saturday I will start walking one half mile a day at 6:30 p.m.” is Measurable and Time-Framed.

Each goal will need an Action Plan with micro, mini or sub-goals to keep you moving ahead. These steps keep you focused and on track.

What dream or goal have you achieved because you used the SMART Method?

©2007 Kim Wolinski, MSW “Dr. DeClutter”Stress, Change and Organizational Skills Expert  www.DrDeClutter.com

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If you’re a writer, or have even been published before, completing the next best-seller, or small press run can get sticky and stuck in no time. 

It’s important to get the best advise and direction from the pros.

Visit www.HowToMarketMyBook.com and find out everything you need to know about getting your new book finished and out of your hands!