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February 26, 2018 by Colleen Mitchell

The Journey to Magnificence: Week Two

All right! Welcome to week two of the Journey to Magnificence- February 18-24, 2018. If you missed last week’s, you can find it here. Last week was a bit of a whirlwind of information and scheduling. Honestly, it was a little exhausting. That might be a sign to slow down!

Courses of the Week:

21 Day Self-Care Challenge (continued)
10 Day Mind Reset Challenge (finished)
Job Fit Crash Course (mostly finished)
Mindset University
Zero-to-60 with Evernote, Module 1
Webinars and other free videos/resources to digest

Okay, so I’m not slowing down, apparently.

Surprise!

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February 21, 2018 by Colleen Mitchell

The Journey to Magnificence: Week One

All right. Week one of my journey to magnificence. For those keeping track (me!) week one was from 11-17 February 2018. I’m able to keep track of what I’m doing by keeping an “accomplishment journal” in Evernote. It’s pretty slick if I do say so myself.

I paid money for a lot of stuff. I invested in the Work at Home School ($497), Asana for Bloggers ($25), Scrivener for Windows ($49.50), and six books that were recommended by Caitlin or others or that looked good while I was browsing Half-Price Books ($56).

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February 19, 2018 by Colleen Mitchell

What I’m Doing to Make My Life Magnificent

I’m going to spend this year doing a thing. It’s going to be a thing I’ve never done before, a thing I’m scared to do, but a thing I’m committing myself to doing anyway. So far it’s day nine of the thing. And so far, I’m proud and terrified and excited about the thing. I’m going to make my life magnificent.

(Disclaimer that the thing is building a side hustle, and I’m not going to quit my day job, which I love.)

I lost motivation to keep writing for this site last April (which is ironic, I know) and so I just…stopped. I was never proud of it, I hated myself for it, and I knew in the back of my mind that if I just started doing something for it again, I’d feel better.

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February 10, 2017 by Colleen Mitchell

Why Implementing Strong Boundaries is the Key to Sanity

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Imagine for a moment that you have built a fence around yourself to protect your feelings and sense of sanity. This fence is sturdy and represents strong boundaries. This fence is meant to keep people from hurting you, but unfortunately, many people seem to believe that implementing strong boundaries, personal outward-facing stop signs, means that they’re being rude. This could not be further from the truth.

What are Boundaries?

Boundaries, especially strong ones, represent the line that cannot be crossed by other people without consequences. Depending on circumstances, these consequences might include leaving the immediate vicinity, standing up for yourself without backing down, putting someone on an “information diet,” or informing the boundary-crosser that they have overstepped and you are going to take some time to yourself because of it. This list is by no means exhaustive.

Living without boundaries can be an acute source of stress. It was for me. Click To Tweet

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January 25, 2017 by Colleen Mitchell

How To Keep Calm When Job Disaster Strikes

Losing your job can be one of the most stressful things people experience. This isn’t to say that there are more stressful things to go through, but for many folks this is the thing that breaks them. Being prone to anxiety and worry myself, I had to learn how to keep calm when my job disaster struck.

It doesn’t matter how your job disaster comes around. The stress involved with it centers around one thing: you’re going from stable to unstable; income to no income. It can happen to anyone. Don’t assume that your loyalty to your company or all your hard work will protect you. Let me share some strategies that helped me cope and keep calm when my own job disaster hit.

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