I just earned my first $5 as a copywriter! ::confidence boosted::

Today I got approved for a 30+ dating offer that I plan to run on Facebook Ads and Plenty of Fish. I chose this offer after talking to Smaxor. Step 1 - create a landing page.

I read my approval email, and a smile crept over my face…

ohkristinayes:

most of you say you want to be successful..
but you don’t want it bad, you just kind of want it.

Attacking my procrastination. This summary of The Now Habit speaks to me. Also, I love how pdfs open up in browser for viewing in Chrome. =)

storybooklove:

FREE IPAD GIVEAWAY!

So this Christmas, I asked both my boyfriend and mum for an iPad, and both of them got it for me, which I did NOT expect. Yes, I could return it, or sell it, but I actually feel like doing something nice for once. So, yeah.

To enter:

• reblog AND like this post (no more than once, it’s not fair!)
• follow me @ http://www.storybooklove.tumblr.com

On January 15, 2011, I will pick a completely random winner. Good luck!

As a future MFT and a total proponent for therapy, it’s so great to see therapy get more props!

krysjill:

kathlyn:

angfoo:

As somebody who works in education and comes across plenty of kids who need therapy, I admire Artest’s efforts to raise mental health awareness:

Artest is very big on counseling. He gets parental counseling, marriage counseling, anger counseling and personal counseling. Artest is such a fan of psychiatry, he’s raffling off the $26,000 championship ring he won to pay for school psychiatry. So far, the raffle — go to RonArtest.com — has raised nearly half a million dollars.

“When I told my mom, she got real pissed at me,” he says. “My dad, too. And my brother. And my wife. They said, ‘You played your whole life to win that and you’re giving it away?’” It befuddled his teammates, too. “I’d never do it,” says Bryant, who has five. “How f—-ing crazy is that? I’d just give them the money instead.”

Not Ron Ron. Already, the money will pay for “at least eight school therapists,” he says. Plus, the more he talks about it, the less weird therapy becomes.

“I needed a therapist when I was a kid,” says Artest, who was suspended every single year of his elementary school career. “I needed one real bad. I want kids to know that what they’re going through, they’re not alone.”

Must-read article inside the crazy brain and pure heart of Ron-Ron.

I heart Ron Artest.

=)

Now.

I am pleased with the way I’ve conducted my self.

I’m satisfied with my relationship.

I’ve cut out many things in my life that were negative or not serving me.

I have a decently secure future.

I am definitely not broke. I’m very financially comfortable.

I have great friends and resources.

1) I don’t think I’m that interesting. I think I’m perfectly ordinary.

2) I’ve been to Germany, Mexico, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the Philippines.

3) I’ve been to Skywalker Ranch.

4) I grew up as a little bad-ass tomboy.

5) I read incredibly fast.

6) I read at a high school level in first grade.

7) I read the Los Angeles Times at age two.

8) I have one dog named after a popular Filipino dish and another dog named after a type of beer.

9) I research almost everything. I have an insatiable desire for information.

10) I hate wasting time and/or effort.

11) I am intensely loyal, but I’m very choosy about who my friends are.

12) I’m pretty crass in private. I cuss like a sailor, I say appalling things.

13) I am a huge proponent for healthy, enjoyable sex and sex education.

14) I’m comfortable talking about pretty much anything.

15) I’m not a quitter, but I will stop doing what isn’t working for me.

16) I’ve been engaged twice, and been proposed to 4 or 5 times.

17) I’m wayyyy cerebral, almost to a fault.

18) I love to sing in the car, in the shower, at a kareoke bar.

19) I’m more comfortable with bodily functions than the average girl

20) I’m a cheap mofo. I definitely have champagne tastes, but I also know how to live on a tiny budget if necessary.

Things that apply:

“The sign Capricorn is one of the most stable and (mostly) serious of the zodiacal types. These independent, rocklike characters have many sterling qualities. They are normally confident, strong willed and calm. These hardworking, unemotional, shrewd, practical, responsible, persevering, and cautious to the extreme persons, are capable of persisting for as long as is necessary to accomplish a goal they have set for themselves. Capricorn are reliable workers in almost any profession they undertake.”

Except I’m not that persevering if I feel it doesn’t serve me, and that can be harmful in the long term.

“Capricorn make of themselves, resourceful, determined managers; setting high standards for themselves and others. They strive always for honesty in their criticism of self, they respect discipline from above and demand it from those beneath them. In their methodical, tough, stubborn, unyielding way, they persist against personal hardship, putting their families and/or their work before their own needs”

“ …wary and cautious around people they do not know very well, preferring not to meddle with others and in turn not to allow interference with themselves, thus they tend to attract people who do not understand them. Casual acquaintances they will treat with diplomacy, tact and, above all, reticence. They make few good friends but are intensely loyal to those they do make, and they can become bitter, and powerful enemies.”

I do have high standards, I definitely strive to be honest with myself. I am strong-willed. But I’m also silly. It isn’t always business time all day everyday…maybe the silliness is how I counteract my heavy serious side though.

I often think about what would happen if I died, if I would be ready and how others would take it. I use my imminent death as a measure for whether I’m satisfied with how I’m living my life. I ask myself, if I died tomorrow, would I be cool with that?

Yes.

I don’t typically think about it in terms of killing myself. Maybe once, when I was going through a bad break up, but I’m decently positive it was more of a cry for attention.