This blog post directly ties to the story I am sharing this week in my eZine. I am raising money for the Relay for Life of Altadena to benefit the American Cancer Society and the wonderful work they are doing to help cancer survivors and their caregivers.
Why “my story” is important is that it is the reason I have become a huge advocate of helping those with cancer and also funding research to finding a cure in our lifetime. (more…)
It was only a couple years ago that I was completely focused on goals … and I accomplished a lot by setting and working on goals.
I ran several marathons, lost a lot of weight, got out of debt, started a fairly successful blog … the list of goals I achieved is long. These days, for more than a year now, I’ve pretty much given up on goals, though I’m still learning how that works.
The question most people have is: how do you achieve anything without goals? (more…)
This past weekend I had the opportunity to hear Kathy Ireland speak at a marketing conference in Chicago. Just before she was scheduled to be on, I was headed to the restroom and ran into her. She smiled brightly and said “hello” – like we were old friends just running into each other. I returned the smile and greeting – not putting it together fast enough that it was Kathy Ireland I was talking to. Living in Los Angeles, this happens to me often. I see someone I recognize and then after the moment has passed I realize that they are some sort of celebrity I’d seen in a movie or on TV. Duh!
Anyway, Kathy Ireland soon took the stage and shared her story. She talked about how she leveraged her super-model career into a $1.4 billion empire by creating (more…)