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WORK, LIFE, BLOG BALANCE
ALICIA LEWIS MURRAY
@THEBALANCINGMOM
#WCAVL
BALANCE DEFINED
• the state of having your weight spread equally
so that you do not fall
• the ability to move or to remain in a position
without losing control or falling
• a state in which different things occur in equal
or proper amounts or have an equal or
proper amount of importance
“The only reason
for time
is so that everything
doesn’t happen
at once.”
- Einstein
NIGEL MARSH TED TALK
15 TOOLS, TIPS, & ACTION
STEPS
to build your blog
& still have a life
TIPS
ONLY WORK ON
HIGH-
YIELD
ACTIVITIES
ENERGY MANAGEMENT
INSTEAD OF
TIME MANAGEMENT
UNPLUG:
DON’T READ
ANYTHING
FOR YOUR BLOG
UTILIZE THE
POWER OF
#REFLECTION
GIVE YOURSELF GRACE
High-yield activities
Energy management
Unplug
Reflect
Grace
TOOLS
TIPS
Evernote or OneNote
Clearly
Editorial Calendar plugin
Trello
Focus Booster
ACTION
STEPS
DEFINE YOUR
CORE VALUES
Prioritize your
priorities
SHOW UP EVERY DAY
OUTSOURCE
NEVER GIVE UP
NEVER GIVE UP
Core Values
Prioritize
Show up
Outsource
NEVER give up!
WORK, LIFE, BLOG GOODIES
tinyurl.com/WorkLifeBlogGoodies
copyright Alicia Lewis Murray @thebalancingmom
CORE VALUES WORKBOOK:
meometry.com/DNA
SOURCES
• http://www.ted.com/talks/nigel_marsh_how_to_make_work_life_balance_w
ork
• www.acatcredentials.org1600 × 1067Search by image
• Pkwallpapers.com
• http://buddytricks.com/einstein-quotes/
• http://buyandsellhair.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Busy-Mom.jpg
• http://www.acatcredentials.org/credentialholders/tools

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Work, Life, Blog Balance

Editor's Notes

  1. Tell a story about how many people I know who start a blog, but don’t maintain it. My friend XX, started a blog about XX. She emailed everyone she knew about her new blog that had one post on it. HURRAY! Congratulations. You have a blog. Of course I’ll read it, we all said. True story. We enjoyed reading it. I was so excited to read a blog from someone I actually knew. …
  2. Ex: get up early and work. Write, Blog, But DON’T do email for two hours. (unless you are a night person) Einstein used to take walks
  3. Outsource so you can spend time on your high yield activities
  4. JK Rowling: J.K. Rowling had just gotten a divorce, was on government aid and could barely afford to feed her baby in 1994, just three years before the first Harry Potter book, “Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone,” was published. When she was shopping it out, she was so poor she couldn’t afford a computer or even the cost of photocopying the 90,000-word novel, so she manually typed out each version to send to publishers. It was rejected dozens of times until finally, Bloomsbury, a small London publisher gave it a second chance after the C.E.O.’s 8-year-old daughter fell in love with it.   Colonel (Harland) Sanders, KFC Founder Colonel Harland Sanders was fired from a variety of jobs throughout his career before he first started cooking chicken in his roadside Shell Service Station in 1930, when he was 40 years old, during the Great Depression. His gas station didn’t actually have a restaurant, so he served diners in his attached personal living quarters. Over the next 10 years, he perfected his “Secret Recipe” and pressure fryer cooking method for his famous fried chicken and moved onto bigger locations. His chicken was even praised in the media by food critic Duncan Hines (yes, that Duncan Hines). However, as the interstate came through the Kentucky town where the Colonel’s restaurant was located in the 1950s, it took away important road traffic, and the Colonel was forced to close his business and retire, essentially broke. Worried about how he was going to survive off his meager $105 monthly pension check, he set out to find restaurants who would franchise his secret recipe—he wanted a nickel for each piece of chicken sold. He drove around, sleeping in his car, and was rejected more than a thousand times before finally finding his first partner. Stephen King King was broke and struggling when he was first trying to write. He lived in a trailer with his wife—also a writer—and they both worked multiple jobs to support their family while pursuing their craft. They were so poor they had to borrow clothes for their wedding and had gotten rid of the telephone because it was too expensive. King received so many rejection letters for his works that he developed a system for collecting them; in his book “On Writing,” he recalls: “By the time I was 14 … the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and kept on writing.” He received 60 rejections before selling his first short story, "The Glass Floor," for $35. Even his now best-selling book, "Carrie," wasn’t a hit at first. After dozens of rejections, he finally sold it for a meager advance to Doubleday Publishing, where the hardback sold only 13,000 copies—not great. Soon after though, Signet Books signed on for the paperback rights for $400,000, $200,000 of which went to King. Success achieved!
  5. Tell a story