🦋 💜 🌿 How are you doing today?

I am pretty good, starting to get my energy back after my cold.
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Update: We have raised about half of our goal to raise money for Aminata's college fees in Sierra Leone! Woohoo! I am preparing to send it to her. ​

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This week, I watched all of the Harry and Meghan interviews on Netflix.

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And sidenote: oh my golly, it is an unfortunate story, but also very inspiring.

Shame that things didn't work out and they couldn't remain as part of the royal family but leaving makes perfect sense given what they shared. I think the two of them are very inspiring, heart-filled people and I really admire them for the love, the sensitivity, and care that they have about the planet (including Africa!) and being of greater service to all the people in it.

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Now that we've gotten the important stuff out of the way lol, I'd like to take a moment to speak about the power of a single, sparkling, gorgeous idea...

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AND I AM ANNOUNCING SOMETHING NEW & EXCITING!

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First the discussion of sparkling ideas.
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This is a holy thing to me,
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my life is all about listening for this sort of idea and putting it into action,

so I creep into this discussion like I am interrupting a church service.
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I feel like I have arrived late while you are the priest or priestess of your creative process, speaking and delivering holy water...

hunched over, I quietly creep to my place in the church of good ideas...
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I slip in with no sound except to maybe mouth "sorry" to someone or give a little smile or thumbs up
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lest I interrupt you in the process of connecting with the thing most important of all.
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(It's not me--it's about something bigger. ✨✨✨✨The ideas. ✨✨✨✨)

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From a space of humility I offer this:

People really underestimate how many good ideas you need.

✨✨All you really need is one.✨✨​
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Or one writing session of an hour can spur you on with a single nugget of inspiration gained.

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One class can give you one idea and be totally worth the money.

That's the power of a good idea.

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Most of us probably fall into 2 categories:

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1. Some of us are looking for their single, sparkling idea and trying to find it out. We suspect it is something new that we don't have yet...

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2. Others have gotten the idea already, maybe long ago, and are learning to trust it.

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Which is it for you? I would love to hear.

Hit reply to let me know!

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FUN FACT:

✨✨Once you embrace that one single sparkling idea...✨

you basically open the floodgates for a million more sparkling ideas.✨✨

But it starts with seeing the value in the one you've got close at hand.
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If you fight it or consider it unworthy....
that's like shutting a door in its face.
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YIKES!

Good ideas really don't like that sort of disrespect.

Come on now, pick up that precious idea and give it some love.

What ideas are brewing for you? ✨

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Here are a few of my recent ideas:

• What is NOT happening:
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  I have decided not to do a new live round of the 3 month digital organization club.
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  ​I will be turning the material into a self study program instead.
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  Keep an eye out for future updates.
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• What IS happening:
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  I have decided to offer a FREE COWORKING SESSION.
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Please mark your calendars for the upcoming FREE cowork session

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Wednesday April 16th

from 2-5 PM CST

3-6 PM Eastern,

12-3 PM Pacific

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Come and stay for a while, or hop in during the middle and join us for all or part of it.

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You can work on your

editing,
writing,
creating,
marketing,
idea organizing,
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It is free!

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​You can also ask me questions about any of the above during the Q&A section

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This free session looks like you joining me as I am:

• Giving you a short presentation at the beginning about a cool surprise topic.
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• Silently working with you for 30 minutes. You can pop a note in the chat about what you're working on.
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• Taking a break in the middle to chat with you.
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• Laying down or dancing around if I need to have a think about something.
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• Q&A questions related to my courses, organizing your ideas, marketing your business in a sales page, editing or writing your book, managing your energy as a creator, things like that! I will be available for questions SOME of the time, let's say 10 minutes per hour.

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How do I sign up?
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​Register for our cowork session on zoom here​

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FAQS:

Can I come for just part of it, if I have to leave?​
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That's fine! Yes, just pop in for a bit.
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If you have a question, and cannot attend in full:​
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consider sending me the question in advance via email or putting it in the chat during the session and I'll record it even if you have to leave before I answer it.

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Can I come late?

Absolutely, yes, just please make sure you are muted if we are being quiet.

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Is there a recording if you can't make it? ​
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Yes and no: I will record parts where I am teaching or answering an important question. But the part where we are quietly working? Nah. Probably not.

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Do I have to talk or be on camera?

Nope. You can just hang out if you want.

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Another idea has been brewing for quite a long time and I had to let it out today.

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A note about my ever evolving relationship with social media:

I want to speak about something bothering me. For over ten years I have been a business owner and one of the big questions that sits heavy is how to integrate social media into it.
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I used to always post daily. It felt like an important business act as an entrepreneur and writer—I never really used social media as much before I started my business. It was new 15 years ago and honestly I had traumatic things happen that made showing up online difficult. I had to work through that but it’s not like it totally goes away.
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I dream about being invisible to all except who need to hear me.
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Now I *can* take center stage when I want and social media has helped me cultivate friendships and connections as well as business opportunities. Things are changing…
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For several years I have been aware that this habit that seemed healthy as a marketing tool at some point became a distracting addiction. (Email by comparison feels so much better.)
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These days I monitor my scrolling time. When I go on to post one thing (often prewritten and I just need to paste it in), I get so distracted and flustered by things I see in the process that I have spent an hour scrolling and totally spent forgotten to post my original content.
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But even a few minutes in, I notice, can have an impact on my mood and mental health.
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I am unable to schedule posts for my instagram and facebook profiles, or YouTube profile, they must be done by me manually.
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I already looked into it and have scheduled material to go out on my Facebook business page, and LinkedIn. I email out things weekly and post to my website sofiawren.com.
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Although I feel I have things to say and want to continue posting Facebook and IG and even YouTube posts (the places I cannot automate)….
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I am taking it day by day. A part of me wants the certainty of an announcement to say I am stopping altogether but that does not feel right. I’m no longer holding myself to a schedule. Everything shared elsewhere will not necessarily be shared on those platforms that I have to physically go into at that time to post.
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If you like my stuff and want my energy or updates the places to go are: LinkedIn, my Facebook business page, my email list (which is how you are reading this), or my site sofiawren.com.

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That's my plan.

IT FEELS SO GOOD JUST TO LISTEN TO THAT ONE IDEA

Give it a try.

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Thanks for reading

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​ ​​ Visit my website ​​ ​ Get writing with me: ​ * Activate your writing: Self-study 7 Layer Writing Activation E-Course ​ ​ * Get motivated + optimistic: Self-study Optimism Program​ ​ ​* Write to serve others: 2 Month Faster Progress Package​ ​ * Organize your ideas: Self-study Digital Organization Club (coming soon) ​

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