From Fizzle to Sizzle: How To the Spark Back in Your Life

There may come a time when you realize the life or career you had may no longer be available to you. It may not continue to be in your best interest, or you just want to move in a new direction. But life never stands still enough to let you sit a spell and figure it out. Forward is your only option. You ask yourself: What direction am I headed? What’s my next step? What happens next is a combination of strategy and serendipity. You strive to make good things happen and then relax and let good things happen to you. Along

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Gift idea for Mother’s Day

Mother’s Day Ebook sale!  The “Getting Things Off My Chest” eBook is just $.99 on May 5th (list: $6.99). Price goes up $1 daily til May 10th. Amazon exclusive. Give, Share, Care. Link to purchase:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F5KPT42 What people are saying about Getting Things Off My Chest: Literary R&R: If you know anyone that is facing breast cancer, run, do not walk, and purchase this for them!  Written by a survivor, using other survivors’ experience, and a healthy dose of humor, Ms. Young has written THE go-to book for breast cancer awareness. Anything, and everything, a patient needs to know is inside, and written

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Dealing with the Odds and Getting Even

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I am dedicating this blog post to all the women who have fought and survived breast cancer and to the memory of those who did not, including my dear friend Julie Gandle who left this world in January 2007. Breast health should be observed every day of the year, not just focused on in the month of October. Here are some important stats to chew own. It starts with the odds. And if you survive and beat it, you got even. About 1 in 8 women in the United States (12%) will develop invasive breast cancer

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