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Magic Happens When You Focus Your Attention with guest Nyota Gordon

Today’s Fast Action Fridays guest is Nyota Gordon, an adaptability coach and leadership strategist, who honed her skills during a 22 year service stint with the U.S. Army. She went in expecting to serve four years. Surprise!

While I’ve never served in the military, I resonated especially with the Aha! moment Nyota shared on the issue of delegating during our interview, and the debilitating weight when you haven’t any system for delegating in place.

There were so many great Aha! moments. About managing ourselves versus our time … about gifting ourselves the grace to grow … about misjudging our ability to multi-task … plus the biggest lesson she learned about herself and being an entrepreneur.

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I’m Challenging You Today. You Can Do It, But Will You?

By Kat Sturtz 14 Comments

Today’s the final day of the Ultimate Blog Challenge, and you are watching or reading my 30th consecutive post for April 2020.

I know I won’t keep up this new post creation pace, but I will be doing more writing and publishing in the day’s going forward than I have in the past few years.

I also know that I will continue to challenge myself … to do more … to better myself and the world around me … and to stretch and to dream.

And Now I Want to Ask You …

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Here’s Your Answer to Where Should I File Misc Info and Bills?

By Kat Sturtz 8 Comments

Do you struggle deciding where to file all those miscellaneous bits of information and bills that accumulate each month? Especially, paperwork that you may … or may not … need to refer to in the future?

In today’s 7 minute video I’m going to show you exactly where I file a variety of items that I may need in the short term future. Better yet, I’m sharing my thought process so you’ll understand what I love about setting up a auto-purging component to my flexible filing system.

Let’s eliminate those piles and get filing the easy, flexible way.

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Quick Tech Tip: How to Quickly Duplicate Events in Google Calendar

By Kat Sturtz 10 Comments

The All Day Repeat option in Google Calendar is good for many situations, such as keeping track of birthdays or marketing opportunities that are tied to a date or day of the week, but not to the time of day.

But it’s a ineffective solution when you want the blocked time for full days or extended time periods over multiple days to actually display as colored blocks on the main calendar section.

Fortunately, Google Calendar has a built-in duplicate feature. In today’s post I’m going to show you where it’s hiding and how easy it is to use to quickly duplicate events or blocks of time.

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My 3 Ultimate Blog Challenge Goals for April 2020

By Kat Sturtz 6 Comments

It’s April 27, 2020, just four more days until the April 2020 Ultimate Blog Challenge ends. With my blog plans mapped out through the 30th, I’m confident I’ll finish successfully.

Creating and publishing 30 new blog posts here this month was just one of my main goals. Check out my short video to learn what the others were, why I set them, and the status of each at this time. Prefer to read? See the summary below the video.

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Spotlight Sunday: Jeanne Robertson – Don’t Send a Man to the Grocery Store

By Kat Sturtz 6 Comments

On days I’m feeling low a dose of Jeanne Robertson is all I need to pick me up and lighten the grey skies. Her telling of what happened when she sent her husband to the grocery store with a specific list of what to buy is my all time favorite.

So you don’t need to go hunting for it, I’ve shared the video below. It’s good, clean fun sure to tickle your funny bone.

Have You Seen It?

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Donna Blevins Shares Living the Hand Life Deals You

By Kat Sturtz 10 Comments

In this final replay from the How I Make Working from Home Work for Me Virtual Summit 2019, guest speaker Donna Blevins brings insight into the use of shifting our mindset as no one else can.

Listen as this Big Girl of Poker explains how she entered the world of professional poker in her late forties, plus what she learned about playing poker that saved her life. Also, check out below the fabulous free resource Donna has available to you.

My heart claims I’ve known Donna for ages when in truth as I write this is, it’s barely been a year. On private video chats, we’ve laughed till our sides hurt and shared sorrows that had us virtually hugging and wiping away tears. And, I love hearing how she stunned medical staff when she used mindset shifts to help recover her speech in three days following a stroke versus the six or more months the doctors predicted.

I couldn’t think of anyone I wanted more as a guest speaker to wrap up my first live virtual summit than Donna Blevins. She shuffles humor and insight and mindset together, lays those cards on the table, then explains how much better you can play the hand life’s dealt you when you choose to shift your mindset on demand.

See below the replay video for more information and tips on how I planned out and hosted this successful virtual summit.

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Sheila Finkelstein: Creative Tips for Helping You Cope When Working from Home

By Kat Sturtz 4 Comments

A dash of creativity can help immensely when it comes to coping with things like grief, brain fog, or even when searching for a practical solution to a troubling situation. In today’s video below, Sheila Finkelstein’s shares some valuable tips to spark your creativity, along with some insight into she’s made use of it to cope with many things in her own life.

Sheila and I first connected online in November, 2014. I frankly don’t recall exactly how our paths crossed, but it was likely through one of the 178 mutual Facebook friends we have.

Like many of those mutual friends, Sheila and I are both members of the NAMS Insider community. NAMS stands for: Novice and Advanced Marketing System. The INSIDERS group is the mastermind subgroup for NAMS, that offers advanced training, networking, and other bonuses to members actively building their online businesses. It’s open to anyone to join. If you’re interested, check out the NAMS $1 trial membership here.

Be sure to see below the video on how to access the special free resources Sheila has made available to summit viewers. It includes: Reflections: Photos and Queries — Using Photography for BreakThrough Shifts in Seeing, Communicating, and Being, plus 7 Tips for Getting Out of a Funk.

See below the replay video for more information and tips on how I planned out the virtual summit and invited speakers.

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Stephen Henry Talks How to Get Organic Traffic to Your Website

By Kat Sturtz 10 Comments

According to Facebook, Stephen and I have been online friends since June 2012. That’s a lot of cybertime. If memory serves me, we clicked over techie things in a networking group Sabina Watson hosted at the time. Over time, but collaborated on several projects, and referred clients to each other. See one of our Blab co-host promos below from 2015.

While we both work, teach, and offer different support services for WordPress websites, plus offer coaching for those building their business, Stephen’s got a much longer and stronger background in SEO especially on how to generate organic traffic than I ever will. I was delighted when he said he’d speak at my virtual summit.

His session is the most technology-oriented one and the only one that includes an informative slide deck presentation. It’s all about helping you generate organic traffic to your website and manage multiple services. Don’t know what organic traffic is? You’ll learn that and more in the replay below.

See below the replay video for more information and tips on how I planned out the virtual summit and invited speakers.

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Cindy Rushton: How I Make Working from Home Work for Me

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Cindy’s one of those high energy types that light up a room just walking into it. She’s used that energy plus her interest in helping others to create a stellar portfolio of work, working primarily from home.

I first got to know Cindy when we both participated in Kelly McCausey’s Stretch Yourself Challenge. One challenge prompted me to host this virtual summit, while Cindy got to check mark the one to reach out and accept a live speaking gig. I’m so glad she did. She shares some wonderful insight and tips in her session. Hope you agree.

See below the replay video for more information and tips on how I planned out the virtual summit and invited speakers.

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