The tip this week comes courtesy of Richard Westrick who reminded me of the importance of changing our bad password habits. How many of us use easy passwords like 123456? Normally we don’t have accurate data about the passwords people use since they are private and hopefully encrypted by companies that use them. But, a year or so ago, passwords of 32 million accounts from a Social Media site named Rock You were stolen and then returned without their user names. This gave researchers a sample of 32 million actual password choices.  Apparently, 300 thousand (9 percent) used 123456. If you broaden that to include [Read more...]

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Just wanted to say Happy New Year to all my readers. I wish you all the best for 2012! Let’s look back over the past year and count our blessings. Let’s be kind to ourselves and others and do what we need to do to move forward with our dreams and aspirations. I really want to encourage you to get your business, your ideas, your art, out there to share with others.

If you are passionate about what you do you will find people who care too. It may be a few or it may be millions but you just have to put one foot in front of the other and get started. Let me know how I can help.

I just ran across this young woman, Meghan Tonjes, a Detroit-based Singer/songwriter. Her Song, This Year is amazing and she is an example of getting it out there.

Meghan posted her first video on youtube in the spring of 2006 and she has steadily increased in viral popularity since then with the help of other social media personalities like Perez Hilton, Ryan Seacrest and Ellen Degeneres. She was on the Ellen show last January 2011 and Meghan’s videos have been viewed almost 9 million times!

I love her determination optimism and courage. Her song, This Year, is just so sweet yet damn inspiring. One thing for sure, Meghan is walking her talk. Watch her sing with the voice of an angel and such determinism.

You can purchase the song, This Year, for a dollar.

My dog died today. Clyde was the oldest of our three Basset Hounds. Turns out he swallowed a whole pecan that had fallen from our tree in the backyard. When they went in to remove it, he didn’t make it and died on the operating table.

Clyde was a furry Black, White and Brown hound dog. He looked a lot like the cowhide rug in my office where he would lay at my feet, while I was working. When I would get up, I wouldn’t see him laying there and it is a miracle that I didn’t break my neck tripping over him. Just for the record, it is not advisable to get a rug that matches your dog.

When it was time to eat, Clyde was the dog that would do a happy dance turning all around when we fed him his little cup of dried dog chow. I would always give him a little extra and Duane would get after me about it. Clyde was also the one that would knock on the patio door when they wanted to come back inside. We are all going to miss him

I thought about not writing this today. Give myself a break and all. But I know that life is short and I have a [Read more...]

If you are following my journey to health (read my Big Dog manifesto blog post), one of the things that made a difference to me in motivation and encouragement was reading Chris Carr’s book, Crazy Sexy Diet. She is vegan which I am not, but I loved her message of how out of whack our diets are, even those of us who think we eat pretty well. As it turns out there is a big difference in what we eat and most of us eat a lot of processed food and usually too much of it. Chris wrote about her need to totally change her lifestyle and how her life depended on it when she was diagnosed with cancer. I don’t have cancer, but I do have Fibromyalgea and need to lose the weight I gained because of it. Ultimately my life does depend on it. And that is the same as with any of us who sit too much at our jobs, don’t get enough exercise and eat our standard American diets.

I am on a quest to do what I can to give my body a chance to heal itself. I am mostly [Read more...]

This tip is so important to your sanity since it makes life so much easier when you can find the passwords to your accounts! To spare yourself from being overwhelmed with technology, I am declaring this week each May to be the official week for you to gain your password sanity.

Make sure you have all of your passwords written down on one spreadsheet that you update each time you get a new account for something or make any changes to existing ones. Each and every time you sign up for something write down the account, the user name and the password.

We have created a password spreadsheet for you to download and save to your computer (by the way don’t name it “Passwords”). You can even password protect the spreadsheet (but you’d have to remember that). No more frustration while trying this, that and the other possible combinations to get onto a site. Do it and you will thank us. I promise. Download a Zip file for a PDF version, as well as the original Excel spreadsheet.

There have oh so many times in my life when I have come to a point where big change were breathing down my neck, stalking me, wanting me to decide, wanting me to take action, and I was ducking around corners, stalling, hiding out, turning my back, putting my fingers in my ears. . .lalala, I don’t hear you. . .

But I did hear.  I did know.  I was scared to death.  I don’t know how!  What if I am making the wrong decision?  What will people think of me?  What if I change my mind?  What if I [Read more...]