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Printable: March 2015 Calendar
15 Minutes Per Day = Progress
What tiny step can you take each day to move one (or two or three) of your business projects forward in March?
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Imagine the Possibilities
Download this printable (PDF) calendar and commit to take one tiny action per day, and see how much progress you can make.
Fifteen minutes of focused action, 5 days per week throughout March = 5.5 hours of work on one or more of your most important projects!
Share your priority projects to win!
Work through the Priority Project Planner and share your top 3 projects for March in the comments! On March 3rd one lucky commenter (chosen by random drawing) will win a spot in our Opt-in Brilliance self-study course.
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Online Resource Roundup: February 2015
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~~~FEBRUARY~~~
Business Growth & Personal Development
Do It Yourself SEO for Small Business
With: Kelly Phillips
Price: $199, $399, $899 levels
Description: You don’t have to be a technical expert to get great results with SEO. You just need to understand how it works. In 7 weeks we’ll walk through exactly how to implement SEO on your site. Modules are made up of videos and worksheets to help you apply SEO yourself. Live FB group and team or 1:1 help is available.
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Join By: February 2, 2015
21 Days from Chaos to Order – The Clutter Free Movement
With: Vatsala Shukla
Price: $16
Description: 21 Days for 21 tasks to get your clutter under control and doing Inner Work to understand why you tend to create clutter with Facebook Group Coaching support. You will receive a manual that covers planning, clutter removal, assessments and tips to carry forward long after the challenge is completed.
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Join By: February 8, 2015
Define Your Blog Voice MiniCourse
With: Daniela Uslan
Price: Free
Description: A 5 day minicourse to define your blog voice, including daily worksheets in PDF and Google Doc format, daily audio, a private Facebook group, and daily office hours.
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Join By: February 9, 2015
Write What You Love
With: Sara Barry
Price: Free
Description: Write What You Love is a free, 3-day mini course designed to get you writing and connecting (or reconnecting) to things you love. You’ll get short writing prompts to get you inspired, focused, and started; devote time for yourself; energize yourself by writing about—maybe even doing—something you love. February 11–13
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Join By: February 11, 2015
Dilettante Life Intensive
With: Lynn Daue
Price: $99
Description: The Dilettante Life Intensive is a 10-week live course for women who want to play more. We examine eight areas of your life, break them down, and rebuild them how YOU want them to look. Each week covers a different area, contains six email lessons, and downloadable PDFs, expert interviews, curated resources,etc! $249 after 2/14!
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Join By: February 14, 2015
Your Great & Gorgeous E-Course
With: Dr. Kelly Edmonds
Price: $847
Description: Premium training program on creating online courses with an experienced instructional designer and entrepreneur, Dr. Kelly Edmonds. The 6-week program includes a custom course blueprint, rich content and lessons, live demos of course creations, and detailed tutorials on course technology set up. Facilitied with lifetime access.
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Join By: February 28, 2015
31 Days & 31 Ways to Jumpstart Your Life!
With: Eryka Peskin
Price: Free
Description: Do you have a hunger to fully embrace your life? To Find out how transforming your relationship with your health, money, sensuality, love, work, mindset can jumpstart your LIFE. Starting on March 1st, you’ll get the tools to create the life you deserve!
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Join By: February 29, 2015
Health & Beauty
Love Yourself Winter Detox
With: Heather Ferber
Price: $97
Description: Ready to give yourself the gift of a little self love this Valentine’s Day? Join me for this 11-day transformational group detox journey featuring delicious whole food, seasonal recipes that will satisfy even the pickiest palate. Time to replenish, renew and recharge! All with the help of an inspirational coach. XO
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Join By: February 12, 2015
Nourish from the Inside Out
With: Kim Ertelt and Katie Vernoy
Price: $79.00 until 2/16 then $115.00
Description: A 2.5 hour workshop that brings together nutrition and life coaching. Learn how what you eat and what you think can improve every part of your life. Start listening to your gut, trust ourself, and nourishing your whole self. Take action to look and feel your best.
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Join By: February 17, 2015
Legal
Legal Love Giveaway + Sweepstakes
With: Lisa Fraley
Price: Free
Description: Enter the Legal Love Giveaway between 2/1- 2/14 for your chance to win $1,500 of free legal work! The lucky winner will be drawn 2/15. No purchase necessary. Plus, everyone who enters receives the red-hot “10 Legal Tips to Protect the Heart of Your Biz” so you can learn the right legal steps to take today. 2/14 is the last day!
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Join By: February 14, 2015
Life and Relationships
Empower Your Inner Wise Woman Group Mentorship Program
With: Jennifer Nassi
Price: $900
Description: Tap into and develop your intuition, understand your patterns and relationships in a whole new way, and get ready to live a life filled with more peace, ease, joy, and connection! This is an experience not to miss- join a sacred sisterhood with amazing support as you uncover your most radiant and authentic self.
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Join By: February 28, 2015, February 15, 2015 for early bird
Soul Work & Creativity
Writer Unleashed
With: Nanci Panuccio
Price: $97
Description: Writer Unleashed is a self-paced online writing course that combines audio lessons with exercises designed to get you writing the stories only you can tell. Break through creative roadblocks, get personalized feedback, and write with more joy, freedom, and mastery.
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Join By: February 20, 2015
Retreats
22nd Annual Women’s Weekend Retreat Dance and Desire
With: Paulette Rees-Denis
Price: $340
Description: 22nd Annual Women’s Weekend Retreat Dance and Desire with Paulette Rees-Denis, Lynea Gillen, and Elena Lipson. April 24-26, 2015 at Breitenbush Hot Springs, Detroit, Oregon. Don’t YOU desire to feel freakin’ great, in your body, in your skin, in your soul, in your mind, in your business? Join us …a retreat just for you!
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Join By: April 13, 2015
Women’s Redwood Soul Retreat in Northern California
With: Laura Gates
Price: $1,250
Description: Four days and three nights spent with 8 other women in a deep dive into our soul’s purpose. We harness the power of our energy while deeply exploring our dreams and goals as we are nourished by the Redwoods, nature, the Pacific Ocean and healthy lovingly prepared food in eco-luxury cabins overlooking the lush valley.
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Join By: May 31, 2015
~~~MARCH~~~
Business Growth & Personal Development
Wellness Business Solutions in a Box
With: Rachel Feldman
Price: $147 to $547
Description: Wellness Business Solutions in a Box – Done For You Programs for Wellness Professionals: Make money and build your online/offline practice using 100% Customizable programs that are ready for you to brand for you niche. Instead of spending time creating a program, spend more time building your business with the right tools. If you are a wellness entrepreneur, then these programs are your solution.
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Join By: March 9, 2015
~~~ONGOING~~~
Business Growth & Personal Development
30 Days to Fame Digital Playbook
With: Lori Nash Byron
Price: $47
Description: Delivered in a fun and friendly PDF playbook, the 30 Days to Fame home study program will walk you step-by-step through the marketing and PR elements you need to become a business superstar. Lessons are simple activities that take only 10 to 30 minutes. 100+ pages! Includes 30 daily action plans, plus Bonus Guides.
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30 Days to Systems Bliss
With: Kathryn Brown
Price: $497
Description: Make this the month you get moving on those biz goals and leave the “I’m stalled” and “I don’t know what to do next” feelings behind you. Start by working with someone who can get you motivated and help you create and implement a plan to break down those goals into bite-sized, actionable steps so you can take action right away!
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Blogstorm
With: Lacy Boggs
Price: $59
Description: Planning might be boring, but results AREN’T. Get six months of blog posts planned and ready-to-write with your new secret weapon detailed in this quick, fun guided brainstorming program. You’ll finish with an organized editorial calendar that not only tells you what you’re writing but how your content supports your biz goals.
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Jewels Branch Creative Community
With: Christie Halmick
Price: Starting at $49/month.
Description: As a creative member you get access to a growing library of self-paced digital courses and the Jewels Branch creative community. Learn graphic design software, branding, content strategy, and more at your own speed (no more overwhelm!). Get support from other entrepreneurs on the same journey as you. Get constructive, helpful feedback from a professional graphic designer.
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My Tiny Empire
With: Megan Flatt
Price: $75
Description: A virtual workshop, My Tiny Empire, is a low-tech, high impact system for formulating your next big project, creating your amazing business products and services, and planning out how to get it all done. All with one little office supply power house you probably already have in your drawer.
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Opt-in Brilliance – Self-Study
With: Jewels Branch
Price: $180
Description: Design a brilliant opt-in freebie pdf in Canva. Brainstorm: Find the connections between the problems your potential clients are having and your expertise; Write: Structure your content to make it digestible (small bites!) so your clients can take instant action, and so it’s easier for you to design; Design: Learn the ins and outs of Canva, including how to customize Canva’s templates to fit your brand for speedier design. Learn how to design 3-d promo images and other graphics to promote your opt-in; Promote: Make a promotional plan to get your opt-in into the right hands.
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Outside In Experience
With: Stormy Sweitzer
Price: $500
Description: Outside In is a life-expanding, deeply effective, and highly personal way to discover who you are or what life holds for you…or simply to shake things up (we all need that every now and again). Whether an introspective retreat from or a full engagement with the world, the experience is unique to what you need right now.
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Polish Your Online Brand
With: Jewels Branch
Price: Free
Description: 5 days of branding inspiration! Build your brand from scratch, select fonts and colors, and create a brand style guide to help you keep your branding consistent going forward.
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Productivity Hacks for Mama CEOs
With: Megan Flatt
Price: Free
Description: You are a Mama CEO. I totally get it. In the 6 years I have been a Mama CEO, I am constantly on the look out for ways to find more time in my day, get more balance in my life and just get more of the important things done. I’ve created 50 Productivity Hacks for Mama CEOs to help you (and me) do just that!
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Cosmic Clarity Session
With: Ashleigh Johnson
Price: $347
Description: Deep down you have this gut feeling you should be working for yourself. Get confirmation from the one place you haven’t looked–your natal chart. In a Cosmic Clarity Session, I’ll interpret your natal chart, you tell me your struggles with your business, and I’ll give you astrologically customized action steps to take.
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Email Marketing Starter Kit
With: Meg Appleby
Price: Free
Description: If the idea of sending out a regular email newsletter for your business is doing your head in, then the free Email Marketing Starter Kit is just what you need. Its designed to make getting started with email marketing stress free and simple.
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Finances
Money First Aid Kit
With: Yiye Zhang
Price: $97
Description: Release your most immediate money blocks at your cellular level through guided meditation and healing technologies. Practical guidance to manifest money (your next $1k, 5k, even $200k+) + move your divine business forward. Develop a loving & healthy relationship with money, stop being scared of numbers, bills or paying suppliers.
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Health & Beauty
Personal Trainer to Go
With: Shay de Silva
Price: $47 to $97
Description: Get unlimited access to over 50 full-body workout videos that you can do on your computer, smart phone, or tablet. Each workout takes less than 25 minutes to complete and requires no weights or other equipment. You’ll also get lots of meal ideas, a tracking system, and a guide for changing your habits one and for all.
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Life & Relationships
Bridging the Gap: Your Divorce Survival Kit
With: Summer Howard
Price: $199
Description: If you feel paralyzed by the pain of separation or divorce, then I created this program just for you! Join this exclusive self-paced divorce coaching program, including: Seven 1-hour lessons with world-class experts on divorce and transitions and one 60 minute Personal Coaching Session with me!
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Happy & Healthy is a Choice: A Spiritual Workbook on Radical Self-Care and Self-Love
With: Rosa Conti
Price: FREE
Description: People often ask how I stay inspired; this workbook shares my how. This 47-page FREE guide explores 8 meaningful self-care areas, and offers practical, loving, and useful examples for protecting your time, your choices, and your personal world.
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“Oh, f*ck it!” Detox: 7 day lifestyle detox
With: Wendy Reese
Price: Free
Description: Ready to say “oh, f*ck” it to all the fears, doubts, should’s that keep you stuck? Release them in this 7 day detox. Each day explore one aspect Money, Work/career, Relationships, Health, Spirit, Passion through morning and evening reflections. End with a plan for forward, authentic living, free of limiting thoughts/beliefs.
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Soul Work & Creativity
Kakadu – a journey into country in image and small word
With: Narelle Carter-Quinlan
Price: $27
Description: Photo E-book. 56 pages, full colour. During October 2013 I travelled to Kakadu. The end of the dry, what I found was water. And rock. An echo of my own terrain, of bone and fluid. The land etched itself into me, searing my tissues. A visual and visceral encounter. Of Country. Lush vibrant images to take into your heart.
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Life Discovery Session
With: Abbie Mood
Price: $66
Description: The session will start with your one, big, burning question. I will do a pre-work card reading and then we will jump on the phone and get right to it! Sessions average about 45 minutes, depending on the topic and what we are guided to discuss. Think of it as part card reading, part coaching, pure clarity.
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Rookie To Reader
With: Theresa Reed
Price: Free
Description: Rookie to Reader is a free fifteen day e-course with simple, practical lessons designed to get you reading tarot, even if you’ve never picked up a deck before. Comes with a free 200+ e-book: Tarot Card by Card.
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Sensing the Spine – an Audio for you
With: Narelle Carter-Quinlan
Price: free
Description: Sensing the curving river of your spine changes everything! This is the first of a free Audio series, embodying your inner landscape. Come home to your interior wilderness. Sensing the spine – 10 minutes.
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You Are The Temple: The Beauty of Ritual
With: Lisa Claudia Briggs
Price: $149 (includes half day virtual retreat late March)
Description: We all crave more time nourishing and renewing our hearts and spirits. You Are the Temple provides everything you need to create a sacred retreat at every level. Move through the techniques and teachings in Initiation, Purification, Nourishment, and Adornment to bring yourself beautifully into a new way of being in your life.
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Daily Dance
With: Erica Ross
Price: $21. Goes up to $35 Feb. 1
Description: Daily Dance is an online, ‘evergreen’, 21-day ecstatic dance program, delivered straight to your inbox, based on my women’s award-winning ecstatic dance practice, Dance Our Way Home. Each day offers a special and unique invitation for one dance, a demo video, song track, and additional inspiration and playlist.
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Where to Find Free Stock Photos: 36 Sites
The number of sites offering beautiful, free photos for you to legally* use in your business branding, marketing, and blogging projects just keeps on growing! Hurray … the more resources the merrier, I say, because it means better visual communication for everyone!
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Watch the resource slideshow or view as a list below. Grab the printable version of the list to keep this info close at hand (you’ll also get a series of tips on how to make searching for stock photos easier)!
1. Compfight
Compfight helps you search the photo sharing site flickr for images that are available for commercial use and licensed through Creative Commons. Always check licenses and attribution requirements. Photo Credit: gertrudster via Compfight CC
1. Compfight
Compfight helps you search the photo sharing site flickr for images that are available for commercial use and licensed through Creative Commons. Always check licenses and attribution requirements. Photo Credit: gertrudster via Compfight CC
2. Crow the Stone
Crow the Stone no longer offers photos.
3. Death to the Stock Photo
Death to the Stock Photo offers free monthly packs of images from photographers Allie and David. Bonus packs and extended access available for $10/month.
4. Foodie’s Feed
Foodie’s Feed offers free, high resolution food photos. Yummy!
5. Foter
Foter helps you search for free Creative Commons images from several online sources. Always check licenses and attribution requirements. Photo credit: mysza831 / Foter / CC BY 2.0
6. Free Images
Free Images offers a gallery of more than 350,000 stock photos.
7. Free Pixels
Free Pixels offers more than 5,000 images. Photo credit: Free Pixels
8. Free Range Stock
Free Range Stock offers high-resolution stock photos and textures.
9. Fresh
Fresh is no longer offered.
10. GetRefe
GetRefe Free offers high-quality images of people interacting with technology (free and for purchase).
11. Gratisography
Gratisography offers free high-resolution photos by abstract artist and designer Ryan McGuire.
12. IM Free
IM Free offers a curated collection of images, icons, templates, buttons. Photo credit: PhotoEveryWhere.co.uk
13. ISO Republic
ISO Republic offers high-resolution images.
14. Jay Mantri
Jay Mantri offers free photos to use as you wish.
15. Life of Pix
Life of Pix offers high-resolution public domain photos created by Leeroy Advertising Agency to use as you wish.
16. Little Visuals
Little Visuals offers 7 high-resolution images per week to use as you wish (no longer updated).
17. Magdeleine
Magdeleine offers a curated collection of Creative Commons licensed images. Some require attribution.
18. Morgue File
Morgue File offers high-resolution stock photos for your illustration, comp or design needs.
19. Moveast
Moveast offers photos from the journey of a Portuguese guy moving east to use as you wish.
20. New Old Stock
New Old Stock offers vintage photos from the public archives. Free of known copyright restrictions.
21. The Pattern Library
The Pattern Library compiles patterns shared by designers for you to use freely in your own designs.
22. Pexels
Pexels offers a curated collection of Creative Commons Zero (CC0) licensed images.
23. Photogen
Photogen offers high-resolution stock photos.
24. Picjumbo
Picjumbo offers totally free photos for your commercial and personal use. Premium packs available for $6/month.
25. Pickup Image
Pickup Image offers free stock images and public domain photos.
26. Picography
Picography offers high-resolution Creative Commons Public Domain CC0 licensed photos.
27. Pixabay
Pixabay offers more than 310,000 public domain photos, vectors and art illustrations.
28. Public Domain Archive
Public Domain Archive offers a public domain image repository. Premium membership available for $10/month.
29. Raumrot
Raumrot offers 544 handpicked hi-resolution stockphotos for personal and commercial projects. Photo Credit: Markus Spiske / www.temporausch.com / CC-BY 2.0
30. RGB Stock
RGB Stock offers more than 100,000 stock photos.
31. Split Shire
Split Shire offers photos by Italian photographer and web/graphic designer Daniel Nanescu.
32. Startup Stock
Startup Stock offers free “start-up” focused photos by Iowa City-based social media marketing agency, Sculpt.
33. The Stocks
The Stocks compiles several of the sites on this list into on one site for easier searching.
34. Super Famous
Super Famous offers images by Folkert Gorter CC 3.0 license.
35. Travel Coffee Book
Travel Coffee Book offers travel photos via CC0 license.
36. Unsplash
Unsplash offers free high-resolution photos via CC0 1.0 license.
Get photos from these free stock photo resources in your Twitter stream by following my list of sites here.
*Be legal: always check usage licenses! These sites offer free images for commercial (for your business) use. Exact licenses and attribution requirements vary by site and sometimes by image, and are subject to change, so always check usage licenses! Make sure what you plan to do with the photo is within the license granted and that you attribute (give credit) as required.
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