by Nicole | Aug 24, 2011 | Book Reviews
Description: As the rest of the nation is embroiled in the Civil War, the Amana Colonies have remained at peace—until now. Amalie Wiese arrives in the newly built village of Amana in 1863 only to find that her fiancé, Friedrich, has left to fight with the Union army....
by Nicole | Aug 23, 2011 | Writing
What sort of time commitment have you put into your dream? Master blogger Seth Godin was asked how he got to be so good at blogging. He replied, “I wrote a thousand blogs.” Malcolm Gladwell in “Outliers” states it takes ten years, or 10,000...
by Nicole | Aug 22, 2011 | Story Behind the Story
My grandmother was a born storyteller, the kind that could spin a tale and keep you enthralled from beginning to end. But her tales didn’t come from a tangle of imagination. They came from her life. I didn’t appreciate this as much as I should have as a child...
by Nicole | Aug 19, 2011 | Writing
The classes, the keynotes, the breaks, the meals – everything was filled with an energy and creativity that spread like wildfire. I had a great time attending Susan May Warren’s Coaching Class about the internal journey of a...
by Nicole | Aug 17, 2011 | Writing
I’ve made the leap (attemping, more like it) to go as paperless as possible. This is coming from a chronic to-do-listaholic. Really, this is epic. For notes/digital to do lists: Michael Hyatt has posted over and over again about the program Evernote. So I...
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