2014 In Review: What I Learned and How It Will Help Me in 2015

My accountability partner and friend Rosetta Thurman of Happy Black Woman, wrote this really cool blog post titled “A Review of 2014 and My Theme for 2015” (you can read it here) and I loved how she wrote out how her accomplishments in 2014 will help her in her business and personal life for 2015. It didn’t hurt that she mentioned me a couple of times in that post as well. 🙂 So, I thought I’d return the favor and write my own 2014 in review post. Looking at her post really made me reflect and think about last year and what I wanted to take with me into this new year. So, here it goes! Continue reading

My 2015 Blogging Goal

8352653_sI’m sure everyone has made their resolutions and one word themes (click here for my one word theme for 2015) for the new year and by now we’ve all realized how hard it is to keep those promises to ourselves. I know I’m struggling. Along with my hopes and dreams for myself and my business, there’s one thing I said I was going to do this year that I have not been good at and purposely avoided it all last year: blogging. Yes, it’s true. For some reason, I find blogging very challenging. There’s the photos, the plug-ins for the blog, the optimization, blog themes, outlining the blog post…you get the idea. See this photo? That’s EXACTLY how I feel when I just think about blogging. But, I know I need to do it and it’s a great tool for my business. Knowing that I would never choose to do this consistently on my own, I started looking for some help. Continue reading