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 Careers:
How Social Media Affects Your Job Search: I can always count on Gini Dietrich and her team from Spin Sucks for a weekly dose of useful information. This week, I was struck by Gini’s post about how the job landscape has changed and most of her recent hires (AND the folks they’d like to hire in 2013) have come from social media. Wow!
On Blogging:
Blog Navigation: How I’m Changing the Way People Get Started: Tom Ewer from Leaving Work Behind writes this piece about how he’s making it easier for readers to find great content on his blog through categories, tags and a “Start Here” page.
Write Drunk, Edit Sober: My good friend Amanda Piccirilli, who blogs at Take Your Pic, has recommitted herself to blogging about whatever she wants (because it’s her blog after all!), and not worrying about getting stuck in a niche or needing to find a focus.
The Ultimate Guest Posting Target Blog List: Wow! What a resource…After attending Alexis Grant’s, webinar of the magic of guest blogging last week, she sent out an email with a link to this handy post from Danny Iny at Firepole Marketing, outlining the top 84 blogs in four different, major categories.
On Social Media:
Three big things happened in social media this week…Google launched Google+ Communities (via DigitalTrends.com), Instagram and Twitter are fighting (via USA Today) and Twitter announced that it will drop the number of characters you can use when tweeting with a URL (via Mashable).
Goals
Just wanted to share something VERY exciting…I accomplished one of my goals from last weekend! Last Sunday, I said I wanted to PR the Jingle Bell 5K race I was planning on running. Well, I did! I knocked 1 minute and 18 seconds off of my previous 5K time…and I did this all while wearing a silly costume!
- PR the 5K I’m doing next weekend. Is it greedy that I really want to PR again sometime this month? I know not every run will be as great as the one I did yesterday, but I’d REALLY like to do a 5K in 30 minutes flat at some point in the future…maybe not in the remainder of my 2012 races, but definitely in 2013.
- Finish my Christmas shopping. (Yup- said this last week…and the week before). Still have lots to do. Need to get on this ASAP.
- Write a few freelance posts…a new and exciting blogging opportunity arose because of something I posted on this very blog…isn’t blogging awesome? Stay tuned for details.
Have any links or goals you’d like to share? Leave them in the comments!
I have recently just found your blog and am already loving it. I envy the fact that you are so sure of who you are and where you are going. I’m only 20 but I woul love to have such direction as you do. Look forward to reading and learning more from your blog
I’m just getting to this comment now (sorry for the delay!) but I absolutely LOVE it. It really made my day. I appreciate your kind words, and hope you’ll continue reading along 🙂 Believe me, I’m not sure of who I am just yet, but I’m working hard every day to do what I’m passionate about. I’m sure you’re doing the very same. Happy New Year Makaiya! 🙂
My goal is a 30 minute 5K too! I know I can do it if I just mentally get out of my head! I always think I need to stop or slow down or can’t keep going, but I know I can. I’m hoping I make it by the end of January at the latest!!
It’s my big 2013 goal! Speed, speed, speed! Need to start doing more speedwork at the gym to get to a sub-30 5K.
I LOVE the “write drunk, edit sober” advice. I participated in NaNoWriMo last month (got 50,000 words of a novel written!) and I found it was A LOT easier to be creative when I had a glass of wine in me while writing. In fact, it’s become one of my favorite things to do. I believe it was Ernest Hemingway who said that first and I love it.
Such funny (but sometimes true) advice! I definitely enjoy a glass of wine when I’m sitting down to write…something about sitting down with a glass of wine just insinuates relaxation and I think helps the creative process flow. Happy New Year, Gini! 🙂
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