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Write On Girl
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Calgary, Alberta
403.461.4882
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Musings from Carrie Gour, principal of Write On Girl, Inc. A Calgary based writer writing to make you look good.
Only age can give the gift of perspective. We breathe more deeply at 45 than at 20. We accept our gifts and weaknesses, and know the difference. We are less easily offended and less awed by our own brilliance (Thank you, Jesus!). Age brings a deep sense of gratitude. And gratitude, as I’ve written often, carries more of everything good in its wake.
Read MoreFor others, we are the first to whoop and raise a toast and insist on celebrating their milestones, major successes and small wins. For ourselves, though, it’s… awkward.
Which might be OK, except this: every chance we pass up to celebrate our own lives sends a message to our hearts and brains that says “you are not worth it.”
Read MoreThe electronic age promised a paperless society - which it has, kind-of-sort-of (except not really). The trade-off for whatever physical paper we’ve given up is that we have a shit-ton of electronic “stuff” in it’s place.
Read MoreWhat do you do to stop feeling like you are completely failing at life….?
No really. I’m asking.
Read MoreLast week, I spent 4 days camping alone with my two 5 year olds.
We were in a special place called Writing On Stone Provincial Park. Mystical energy practically shimmers across the moon-like landscape there, so it is well and good that it also happens to be one of those rare places left on the planet that's completely off the grid in terms of cell or internet service. What’s the saying? Get into nature where there may be no wifi, but you’ll find a better connection? Yeah, that.
Read MoreProcrastination, man. It’s not one of the majors in the “deadly sin” firmament, but it should be. Because it’s killing your dreams. And mine.
Read MoreImagine what it would be like to know that behind every cupboard and within every drawer are only things that you love? No misshapen t-shirts, chipped bowls, that ceramic chicken your granny gave you, dishwasher manuals, pens that don’t work. Everything you own brings pleasure.
E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
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Creation and transformation are always shouldered on degrees of pain: the physical sear of childbirth; the epic collision of tectonic plates; the emotional turmoil of Hemmingway or Picasso. So it is, my friend, that you suffer a bit too in the interest of something that has never been before. And that is as noble and worthwhile a cause as any.
Read MoreThe prevailing definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again hoping for different results. OK, yes. I would argue that a second and equally valid definition of insanity is failing to do the thing over and over again that you know guarantees different results.
Read MoreSometimes it happens that focus is a problem.
I know. You don’t relate at all.
Read MoreWe all know that starting a business is not for the faint of heart: the risk, the uncertainty…yadda, yadda, and that is all true.
Read MoreIn case you didn’t know, traditional marketing and advertising is…while not exactly “dead,” it’s definitely in the palliative care unit of business.
Read More“Parenting” wasn’t even a verb in the 70’s. It wasn’t something people “did.” No, you either had parents or you didn’t.
Read MoreI know you didn’t ask, but here is my advice on your shitty past: Shut the hell up about it.
Read MoreDid you know my great, great grandfather made his living as a commercial fisherman? Yeah. He was one of the family’s original Networkers.
Ba-dump-bump.
Thank you, thank you very much. I’ll be here all week…
Read More“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” The worst opening line to anything, and the best summary of motherhood.
Parenthood is binary; it's all 0’s and 1’s: Want/Don’t Want. Come here/Go away. Love like mad/Don’t even like you.
Read MoreIf being understood by your colleagues and clients is important to you at all, then it’s a good idea to get as good at business writing as you can. This holds whether you are a CEO, business owner, manager or an employee: if you communicate with others, then you need to know how to write effectively for business.
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can’t get them across, your ideas won’t get you anywhere. –Lee Iacocca
Read MoreDo you feel like you’re just going-through-the-motions of life? Have you become separated from what’s true about yourself so that your days feel one-dimensional and brown? Do you keep yourself from “feeling” too much, because you just can’t even…?
Start with your body.
Read MoreGain more readers! Raise your conversion rate! Have your clients buy, buy, BUY! How?
Show a bit of yourself. Even better, get a little emotional.
Yup, you read that right.
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