Yesterday started off as do all my days.
- 4:30 am wake up
- Coffee…more than is reasonable
- Kasha
- Arse kicking workout.
After the usualness, I did something unusual.
I spoke at iMedia about blogging, and boy was it fun!
Oh the self portraits! I should have told them to get better at them than I am.
When I wasn’t talking about how much I love blogging, aka YOU, I got to take in the sessions. Thank goodness! The last thing I wanted to do was listen to myself all day when there are fantabulous people to meet, learn from, and tweet with about what we were learning.
Oh how I love Twitter!
I learned about SEO, developing a brand, putting forward a great pitch, and creating a professional image; which is great, but my blog is an oddity. My blog is ME, Donloree Hoffman, and all my craziness online. So while I was learning about how to be a better blogger, I couldn’t help but take away some fabulous life lessons.
- Deeply engage with people and be remarkable.
- Don’t add numbers to everything. Numbers matter, but people matter more.
- Don’t be stupid, think about what you’re saying.
- Pay for the good stuff, the stuff that matters.
- Freelance is not free, everything has a cost!
- Everything takes time, keep going.
In my effort to be a real girl and not bring all my food everywhere, I ate from the buffet line. This may have resulted in scaring a few people, but the deconstructed deli sandwich + epic amounts of spinach salad = a DL approved meal.
Even if the sandwich guts looked suspicious.
Yup, all covered in random 'sauce'. I didn't wipe off the sandwich meat...I just ate it sauce and all. No reason to completely freak out my new friends!
And to top the day off, I won the biggest door prize on the planet.
The thing is HUGE! I think I could fit IN the box once the printer comes out. hah!
I feel a pressing urge to print things….many, many things!
Yesterday was a good reminder to show up, do your best, be yourself, and just be amazing.
Good thing you had an OLD friend in line with you that didn’t think it strange that you were pulling apart your sandwiches. 🙂 Love the picture of you with the printer. Seriously. That thing is ridiculous.
I love the lady who TOOK the picture. 😉 I was thinking about how strange life is yesterday. As IF you and I were at a social media conference in Edmonton after meeting in Puyallup 17 years ago….we didn’t even know what social media was! Question – why didn’t we invent Facebook? hah!
Thanks for the breakfast idea. Can’t wait to try it. Looks delish and filling!
It is! Yummers! It would be good with oatmeal too, if you are an oatmeal kind of a woman. 😀
I managed to buy everything last night minus the maple flakes (which the store did not carry). I’m going to have to check out a couple more places. Fingers crossed.
I found them at the organic store. You could use real maple syrup too. 😉