Start your week right! Every Sunday I post my favorite links from around the web and share my goals for the upcoming week.
Links
On Big Dreams:
Three Courageous Approaches for Your Big Dream: Kate Swoboda from Your Courageous Life shares details about completing her book proposal and offers up three courageous approaches for accomplishing a big goal. Kate’s totally a girl after my own heart- I love her courageous outlook on life and work.
Overcoming the Fear of Failure: Letting the fear of failure hold you back from achieving your big dreams? Benny Hsu from the Get Busy Living blog breaks down why the fear of failure is so crippling and explains how to overcome that fear to reach your goals.
On Blogging:
7 Phrases That Make Me Ignore Your Guest Post Query: As a managing editor of a blog myself, I can totally relate to the 7 phrases that make Allison Boyer of the Blog World/New Media Expo blog ignore your guest post query.
On Entrepreneurship:
On Business Karma, Reciprocal Success and Dragon-Taming: I can’t get enough of Jenny Blake’s new blog! This post completely reframes the way I think about my “competition” in the blogging and business world.
Not Better Off Alone: Dana Sitar of A Writer’s Bucket List and her new blog Between Two Towns explains the importance of including others in your business- even if you’re a solopreneur. A team is powerful and that’s why I’m thrilled to be part of the new mastermind group Dana mentions in this post.
This Week on JessicaLawlor.com:
Five Tips for Embarking on a New Adventure: As my brother heads off to Temple University for his freshman year, I share five tips for those taking a leap into the unknown (and provide a bunch of bonus tips for Temple students).
Why Being a Geek is Actually Really Cool: Think being called a geek is an insult? Think again. Here’s why I think being called a geek is the ultimate compliment.
Goals
- Get my fall race schedule in order. I’m not planning on running a half marathon this fall, but I want to train weekly as if I have a huge race on the horizon, so I’m going to register for upcoming races to get myself motivated.
- Participate in the fourth anniversary #PRStudChat Twitter chat on Tuesday night. I was so excited to be invited back as one of the original PRStudChat alumni! If you’re a PR student or young professional, be sure to join in on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m.
- Explore Philly Blog Love! I’m so excited to share that this week I was accepted into the Philly Blog Love community, along with a bunch of other fantastic Philly-area bloggers. I can’t wait to get involved, attend events and meet more local bloggers!
Have any links or goals you’d like to share? Leave them in the comments!
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