Hi Creators and Big Thinkers,

As you know, my mission at Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc. is teaching women how to achieve financial independence through the various educational products and services we offer. To help educate our clients and customers more about how we can help you achieve your individual goals, my team has put together a wonderful company catalog. Please feel free to download a copy below and just let us know if you have any questions at all.

Download Now: Sheri Mcconnell Companies, Inc. Catalog.pdf

Meet NAWW Members and CEO, Sheri McConnell at the Texas Conference for Women in Houston, Texas on October 16th. More than 7,500 women are expected to attend this year’s Texas Conference for Women.

Register at: http://www.txconferenceforwomen.org

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Everything worthwhile in your life only comes into form through your creation. You cannot wait for the right time, the right job, the right husband, the right house, or even the right body to come to you. You have to create it. To achieve the life of your dreams, you need to spend time “visioning” what you think will make you happy. Then you get busy “acting,” moving forward, and figuring out how to create what you want. I created the right job by becoming the CEO of my own company and constantly refocusing back to my “passions” during difficult growth phases. And the BIG AHA I had that I want to share with you is that sometimes we go on autopilot. When that happens, we create messes in our lives. Always be willing to scrap some of your creations and start over, whether it’s a bad business, bad marriage, or bad eating habits. Remember, you have all the power you need within you to create the life you want.

Why Create A Virtual Group?
When I first started the National Association of Women Writers (NAWW) in 2001, I didn’t openly share that I was running and building my new company from my home office. A stigma was attached to having a home office back then; it communicated that you were a small company. Times have definitely changed. Fast forward to today. Everything I believed was a weakness in my first business in 2001 is actually a strength that I leverage today to grow my companies. These are a few reasons why I love virtual businesses.

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Dear NAWW Members,

I’m working on an article for publication with MSN and the Dove Real Beauty Campaign.

Topic: Who inspires you and gives you strength? Is there someone in your life who has made a difference in how you see yourself and in what you think you can accomplish?

Anyone have any interesting, inspiring stories they’d like to share? Email maria@campuscalm.com.

Live your bliss,
Maria

http://www.campuscalm.com

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NAWW Member Event: Shaping Your Experience for the Page—Turning Personal Experiences into Insightful, Moving Writing

Attendees will learn:

1. Locating your writing’s occasion
2. Extracting insight from your experience
3. Using the first person skillfully
4. Using sensory imagery to keep the reader with you

Note: Call-in information is on your member login page. If you do not have your password, e-mail us at support@naww.org

MP3 is posted within 48 hours after live call.

If you are not an NAWW member yet, find out more about NAWW Membership Benefits by clicking here: naww.org/blog/benefits

About Sheila Bender

Sheila Bender, writing teacher, poet, essayist, columnist, and book author, is now offering her know-how and ability to offer instruction through weekly online articles that encourage and help those who write from personal experience. Whether you want to break your writing out of its current form, revise effectively, generate more writing or facilitate the writing of others, you will benefit from Sheila’s weekly articles.

Sheila has been writing seriously since 1975 and I has taught writing since 1980. She published her first book about writing (Writing in a Convertible with the Top Down) in 1991 and have continued since then writing and publishing my poetry (Sustenance: New and Selected Poems), reviews (in Poet Lore, The Seattle Times and The World), and articles (Writer’s Digest Magazine and in Spring 2006, The Writer), as well as producing and publishing seven more books on writing, the newest entitled Writing and Publishing Personal Essays from Silver Threads in San Diego. Others include: Writing Personal Essays, Writing Personal Poetry, Writing in a New Convertible with the Top Down, A Year in the Life, and Keeping a Journal You Love. Her essays and poems appear online and in numerous North American literary magazines and anthologies.

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