Top 10 Posts of 2017

The year is almost over. I won’t be publishing any new blog posts until January but if you’re looking for something to read over the long holiday weekend I am rolling out the 10 ten posts of 2017. Oh yeah, I’m doing a countdown! Each day starting Friday I’ll be posting one of the top 10 posts of the year. I love checking out my analytics and seeing what resonated with people. I loved this years list and hope you enjoy it too!

#10 5 Reasons Your To-do List Sucks

#1 on the list of top posts of All The Things I Do. 5 Reasons Your To-do List Sucks. To be honest, it felt a little risky telling reader that something they did “sucked,” but with that being said it needed to be said. A lot of people have problems getting things done. They hear, “You should make a to-do list,”  then they do, and nothing improves. This post talks about the changes you need to make on your to-do list to make it more productive. 

#9 6 Tips For Saying No When Your Hate Letting People Down

I think we can all relate to having trouble with the word “no.” But sometimes saying “no” to someone else is saying “yes” to yourself. In this post, I share six ways to make this easier.

#8  5 Ways to Deal With Stress

Everyone has stress to some degree. While we all deal with things in our own way, I wrote this post with the hopes of providing some realistic ways to deal with stress because we all can’t just go to Paris for a month and still pay our rent.

#7 Why You Need to Talk to People Outside of Your Industry.

This post was inspired after I set up a small meet up in my city and ended up meeting the owner of a local brick and mortar business. It was very eye-opening. Here are four lessons I learned from the conversation and reasons you should step out of your inner circle.

#6 2016-2017 Network Predictions a Year Later

Back when my blog started in 2015 I started a fun annual post where I reviews would watch as many network tv trailers as I could find and then make my assumption on if I thought they would succeed or not. Then I would come back a year later and see if I was right or wrong. I feel like this post was fun but actually more daunting than you’d expect. I can assume people searching for network schedules and cancellations stumbled upon it.

#5  How to Get Past The 5 Reasons People Don’t Ask For Help

As hard as it can be to admit no one can do all the things without anyone’s help, even Beyonce has nannies. This post not only shares five common things that stop you from asking for help but ways to work around them.

#4 8 Business & Life Lessons From 30 Pounds of Weight Loss

First that 30 is officially 40 in 2017! Woot! Woot! I did work hard so I will toot my own horn. In this post I shared the similarities, I found about building an online business and losing weight. Even if you aren’t trying to lose weight, these are amazing things to remember about any change you’re trying to make in your life.

#3  5 Myths About Keeping Your Clients Happy

This post is relatively new, so I was shocked and happy to see if had such a tremendous response. This post is all about the myths we tell ourselves about working with clients and why they aren’t true.