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Blog Advice: Tell the Truth and Risk Everything

When you set out to achieve your dream you will most certainly make mistakes. I know, I’ve made them when it comes to blogging. You dream may grow and change as you grow and change with it. Few people understand that when you blog, you not only become a published author, but you also become [...]

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One Day You Just Wake Up, Get Up and Work Your Dream

I don’t know how to describe it really — that moment when you get up and begin living your dream. Sometimes it sneaks up on you like a cold breeze on a spring day that slaps you awake. Your dream goes from daydream into reality and you find yourself living your dream. It’s like all [...]

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January Results of the 8 Women Dream Survey Questionnaires

8 Women Dream is growing. Earlier this year, the 8 Women Dream website surpassed 1,291,291 page views. We recently turned to you to find out how we can make 8 Women Dream better, to ask your input on our dreams, and to find out what you need to keep you dreaming too. We received some [...]

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Personal Development: How to Make Dreams Come True

If you’ve been reading me for the last month you’ve embraced procrastination, looked at creating a plan, killed you perfectionist instincts, reclaimed wonder, narrowed your dream to the one thing and set up rituals to get started on your dream journey. This week you need to set up a planning wall or calendar. It’s time [...]

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Goal Setting: Double Your Dream Success by Following Rituals

In my last three posts (Personal Development: How to Plan to Change Your Life in 2012, Reclaiming Wonder: The First Step to Changing Your Life, and Your New Year’s Resolution: Dare to Do the One Thing) I have walked us through the steps necessary to begin to set dream goals, change your life and pursue [...]

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Your New Year’s Resolution: Dare to Do the One Thing

In my last three posts, Personal Development: How to Plan to Change Your Life in 2012; Warning: Perfectionism Kills Starting a Blog and Your Dreams; and Reclaiming Wonder: The First Step to Changing Your Life, I outlined the first steps to starting your dream. Since today marks the beginning of the new year, you are [...]

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Reclaiming Wonder: The First Step to Changing Your Life

My favorite holiday movie is Elf staring starring Will Ferrell, James Caan, and Zooey Deschanel. I’ve watched it about five times in the last three days. The reason I love this movie is Buddy-the-elf’s sense of wonder and child-like innocence. The movie is a reminder of how the world looks to a child. Somewhere deep [...]

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Warning: Perfectionism Kills Starting a Blog and Your Dreams

Before I begin my posts next year on how to choose your dream niche (which is narrowing down your dream to the one thing you want) and blogging about it (if that’s what you want) I want to talk about how perfectionism will kill your dream before you begin. “Being perfect” has no place in [...]

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Personal Development: How to Plan to Change Your Life in 2012

It’s that time. That time between the shortest days of the year and starting a new one. It’s time to think about personal development and planning how you are going to change your life in 2012. Setting a plan for what you would like to achieve with your dream in 2012 will help you look [...]

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An Open Letter To Every Procrastinator: Embrace The Cold

I hate cold weather. Call me a California wimp… fine. I love sunshine and wind that feels like your best blow dryer on medium when your hair is turning out uber-fine. If I can live somewhere that creates this daily .. I am in. It’s that time of year that if I don’t get out [...]

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Dreams Cut Short: The Real Reason the Holiday Season Exhausts You

Today I am happy to share some space on 8 Women Dream for a woman who helped me change my life. In 2003 I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Disease, a hereditary disease that lead to my hypothyroidism. I was pretty sick when I stumbled upon the website, Stop The Thyroid Madness in 2004. Until that [...]

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Some Straight Talk About Time And Your Big Dream

Did you know that it takes more than 1,500 hours a year to climb to the top 10% and make your dreams come true? It’s an extra 4 hours per day. Read this again: an extra 4 hours per day. But how many days will it take at that extra 4 hours a day? 2,500 [...]

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