Five Tips for Growing Your Business

by Sandy Weiner on March 8, 2010

I am in the pre-launch stages of my new coaching business; percolating new ideas, writing curriculum for workshops, and talking, talking, talking to everyone about my exciting new niche: Dating After Divorce Coaching. I am targeting women over forty, who are having some difficulty in dating after divorce. And I am very excited!

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First Impressions

by Sandy Weiner on March 4, 2010

Last night, after rushing from picking up my daughter at the train station to feeding my kids dinner, I traveled a half-hour during rush hour traffic to get to a networking event at EWN. I was a bit frazzled as I entered the lecture on networking etiquette, but I was not nervous at all. I walked in with confidence. Over the past year, I have gone from being anxious and a little nauseous to feeling at ease and comfortable with networking events. I owe that ease to the many skills I have learned along the way, the most important being, Just Do It. Feel the fear, but do it anyway. The more I do, the easier it gets.

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Breathing New Life

by Sandy Weiner on March 3, 2010

I remember my first time. I was driving in a neighborhood about a half hour from my home, and there they were at the end of someone’s driveway, exposed and begging for a second chance: twin oak headboards and footboards, in mint condition and perfect for my kids’ bedroom! With a quickening of my heart and the thrill of a sneaky adolescent, I pulled my car to the curb, opened the back of my forest green station wagon, and shoved in my newfound treasures.

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Everyday Miracles

by Sandy Weiner on February 28, 2010

Back in Biblical times, when the Jewish people left Egypt, they witnessed one amazing miracle after another. From the nature-defying splitting of the Red Sea to the awe-inspiring capacity to draw water from a rock, miracles were abound. And yet, the Jewish people were constantly complaining. No sooner had they crossed the sea to dry land, saved from the Egyptians, they were whining to Moses about the water situation. Manna fell from the sky every day so they were never hungry, yet they complained about the lack of meat. How could the Jewish nation be so ungrateful?

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I Am, I Can, I Will!

by Sandy Weiner on February 26, 2010

Yesterday was another example of the Universe changing course and good things happening because I went with the flow. It was another case in point that we can’t control the outcome of anything, but if we are open to what might happen, we can experience great things.

I had signed up for a luncheon lecture by Linda Kaplan Thaler on The Power of Small at the Entrepreneurial Women’s Network (EWN). I was anticipating a powerful inspirational speech by this highly successful woman business owner, and was disappointed when the morning of the lecture, the speaker cancelled due to a family emergency. Debbie Fay of Bespeak Presentations, had graciously offered to take her place. I had heard Debbie speak before, and I knew she would be dynamic, but I had signed up for Linda, not Debbie, and like a petulant child, I wanted my Linda!!

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Five Tips for Change That Sticks

February 25, 2010

Life is rarely a smooth road. The bumps can be difficult to navigate and sometimes throw you off course. Change can feel hard. Whether you are trying to lose weight, change a job, leave a spouse, adjust to an empty nest, whatever your challenge is, it doesn’t have to be that hard.
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The Love Doctor

February 19, 2010

Call me Doctor Love. I happened upon this new career by accident, as I stumbled through the sometimes daunting, often exciting adventure of dating after divorce. Through my own trial and error of dating, I discovered that I am much better at understanding men the second time around. Whether it’s due to my maturity, self-confidence, [...]

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Wild Things

February 17, 2010

I almost forgot how much I enjoy painting. The sensuality of blending the acrylic paint colors, the wonder of making something from nothing. My eighteen year-old son had been bugging me for months to paint a scene from the book, Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak. It was one of his favorite [...]

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Do Not Betray Your Soul

February 16, 2010

I first heard the beautiful poem, The Invitation, by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, in coaching school. I remember how, four years ago, it touched my heart with a sense of knowing, finding myself deep in its words. I happened upon it again this morning in a compassionate blog post by Ronna Detrick of Renegade Conversations, and [...]

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Is There Such a Thing as Chance?

February 15, 2010

I believe in serendipity. This is a story of how a ceramic tray connected me to an old friend and a new pair of boots. Back in November, a woman contacted me to commission a ceramic tray for a wedding she was attending in February. Due to a series of unfortunate delays that were out [...]

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