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5 tips for dealing with change

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This is the view I grew up with, I never realised how much I missed this vista until I went to visit it on my roadtrip a few months back after a 3 year absence. I’m so pleased I went when I did because what I didn’t know was that of the two working farms my parent’s house backs onto, this one is in the final stages of being sub-divided. I feel a great affinity for this old shed, one of my best friends in my early teens lived in the house behind it and we spent many hours at each other’s house having sleepovers, swims and sliding down that hill on cardboard boxes! In latter years my parents would consider the couple who own it some of their closest friends. For close to 30 years we’ve been able to watch the seasons change with this shed on the hill, and all too soon we’re going to be staring into people’s backyards. It kills me a little, but you can’t fight progress I guess! I took this photo on a freezing morning at sunrise and used my fine art Photoshop editing skills (that I am so thankful to have been
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In support of White Ribbon Day

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November 25th is Australia’s White Ribbon Day, the day to take a stand in support of ending violence against women. This is the post I wasn’t going to write. Not now. Not ever. I didn’t want to be one of the poster girls for domestic violence. And then I read this story, and I thought that if speaking out can give just one person the courage to know that they are not alone, they shouldn’t be ashamed at the situation they’ve ended up in and that they should take action to be able to leave then my story might be worth writing down. Besides, I couldn’t really take the oath and not do something. So here goes… I never had a lot of boyfriends growing up, I think I could count them on one hand. My first, real, grown-up relationship was while I was at university. After I had put myself back together from that as best I could I stumbled on that complete piece of shit brainwashing book about ‘soulmates’ in Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. And I wanted it. I wanted in to the exclusive, hard to find, but oh-so-worth-it soulmates gang. It’s not terribly surprising
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Being a better blogging citizen

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One of the things gnawing at me on my to-do list lately has been to become a better citizen in the bloggy community in which I live. To make an even greater effort to read, comment and share the great work we all create because I really believe that to get this kind of interaction in return you need to give it! But how to fit this into already jam-packed days was stressing me out. And then I got it. I just had to commit to doing it and make it a priority over and above simply being busy. Allow me to explain, I work two jobs (I’m a senior manager of a high performing team and run my own business), write this blog, volunteer my time on the state council for a professional photographic industry body, attend various networking events and care for my two dogs. Not that uncommon a story for many small business owners and management execs, busy juggling a million things. For me, to try and get everything done I wake up at 5.30 – 6am, 7 days a week to nudge it all along and keep everything ticking over plus I ride modern technology hard to achieve that.
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Dear Santa, come at me

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I’m not a massive fan of Christmas stress which is why I don’t go overboard on the decorations and avoid crowded malls like the plague! Which probably explains why I did all my Christmas shopping and wrapping on the first weekend in November. Yep, done AND dusted. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve stuck a list on the fridge, weeks in advance of Christmas with details of stuff I’d love to receive. For years my family gave me stick about it! And then, a funny thing happened. About ten years ago they’ve actually started asking for it – ha! So now that I have family all over the country and I’m not only a mad online shopper myself, but a Pinterest mental case I’ve created my very own board to replace the list on the fridge as a more convenient one stop shop for them! If you need some help on how to get started on one for yourself you can read my earlier posts and if you’re already on to it then check out how to verify your Pinterest profile to stand out from the crowd. OR if you need gift ideas for the fabulous thirty something women in
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How to Verify Your Pinterest Profile

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If I had a dollar for every ‘How to verify your site on Pinterest’ post that in Step 2 of their 3 Step process just said word to the effect of ‘just get your techie to do it in, like, less than 10 seconds’ I would have $7. Most likely much more than that but I lost my shit after the first page of Google results and gave up. How many small biz owners who can fumble along with their own blogsite are actually their own technical support go-to and have no idea what Step 2 means?! To catch you up, Pinterest has released a new feature allowing you to verify your website. When your website is verified, people will see a checkmark next to your domain in search results. They will also see the full website URL and checkmark on your profile. To do this they need you to confirm that you have access to your website’s server by uploading a unique HTML file to it.  At this stage it can only be done for a top-level domain, such as www.example.com, and HTML file upload is the only verification method.  They anticipate releasing other options in the near future. So for bloggers this means you
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12 Leadership lessons from The Walking Dead

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It’s been two weeks since Season 3 of the ridiculously successful AMC series The Walking Dead premiered. I recorded both episodes, but I’ve been too squeamish to watch them. Until today. You see, the sight of blood and guts makes me pass the F out, and zombie killing methods are particularly gruesome – not to mention the sight of the zombies themselves. For the past two seasons it has had me on the verge of bringing up my lunch every episode, but I persevered because I was researching zombie special effects makeup to help style my Australian Professional Photography Awards entry this year. It was tough going, let me tell you! So while it’s daylight hours today I steeled myself to sit down to watch episodes 1 and 2 and it hit me that there are some fundamental leadership lessons to be had in a zombie apocalypse. 1. Celebrate small wins, but don’t lose sight of the bigger picture. In the opening scenes of episode 1 the group made it to the security of an abandoned prison. Their relief at feeling the most safe and secure they had in countless days of being on the run was palpable. Rick wanted
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Are you traveling to Melbourne for the ProBlogger Training Event

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Right now I’m doing a really, REALLY important task ahead of the ProBlogger Training Event in Melbourne in… shit, TOMORROW! I’m painting my nails, in a shade of hot damn! pink. And I’m as confused about the weather lately as anyone, and I live here! So as someone who has lived in a few cities and countries of questionable climate in my time I thought you might appreciate this help ahead of packing and arriving in Melbourne. Back when I was a power suited b(w)anker, living in Sydney I used to travel to Melbourne every few months for work. And I ALWAYS brought the wrong clothes. Always. I planned my trip, I monitored the weather but I dressed for a Sydney ‘early Spring’ day or a Sydney 18′C and nothing could have been further from the truth! I’ve now lived in Melbourne for more years than anywhere else, and as I also consider myself part Greek (long story) and a bone fide apprentice Melbournite I feel somewhat qualified to give this advice {disregard the fact that I have a low threshold for AFL in a football mad town, K?}. Melbourne weather is notoriously shithouse, cantankerous and often lashes out like
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