September 9, 2012

Welcome to the Updated Essential Elements

Hey there 2012…so nice to finally catch up to you! This blog has been in desperate need of a makeover for a good year or two, and it finally got one. I’m so.fricken.excited this is finally updated.

You know how it goes – the busier you get with work and life, the more some things get pushed to the bottom of the “to do” list. I’ve made a concerted effort to keep this blog updated monthly, and I sincerely appreciate everyone who subscribes, reads, comments and shares. But, I let the design refresh go a little too long.

I’ll still be making a few tweaks, mainly adding an image to the header and maybe toying around with the shades of pink (you know I wasn’t going to not let there be pink in the new design!). But for the most part, this is it. I wanted to keep it simple and clean. No need for a ton of jazz.

I’ll still be talking about the same things – anything and everything related to positivity, happiness, success and creativity. I always aim to give you lessons learned or valuable takeaways that you can apply to your own life and work, and I plan to continue doing that with my posts.

If you don’t already, I hope you’ll consider subscribing via RSS (top right corner) or email (very top of the right sidebar). Please and thank you. 🙂

I have to extend a HUGE thank you and shout out to one of my dear friends, Hubert Sawyers (@HubertGAM on Twitter), who helped make this possible. Hubert helped get me thinking more strategically about what I want to do with this site and the people who subscribe and read. I spend so much of my time thinking that way for my clients and agency and not enough time for myself. Hubert pushed me to do that, and it was an enormous help. Not only does Hubie have WordPress smarts, but he has some mad email marketing smarts, too. He does this type of consulting all the time, so I highly recommend you reach out to him if you could use some help in this area.

I just crossed five years of blogging at the end of August, which is insane to me! It’s been fun to watch this site grow and change as I’ve done the same as a person and professional.

Thank you, thank you, thank you for being here, and I hope you’ll stick with me for another five years of blogging.

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