
I was taking photos of some vintage items yesterday for a flash sale I have coming up in June and I noticed that things look completely different depending on how close-up you get.
If you zoom in too close, things will get blurry. If you zoom out too far, you lose all of the details.
But there’s a optimum distance for a picture that balances the best…
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We women are givers, aren’t we?
We’re always so happy to help out our families, our friends, our co-workers, our PTAs, our churches, our you-name-its.
But I’ll bet at some point that you gave until it hurt. Until you were so exhausted that you couldn’t give to one more person. Or until you felt burnt out. Or fed up.
Because a lot of us women are also particularly…
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I’m at ASU this week doing a speaking gig and I’m thoroughly enjoying two engrossing reads during my downtime: Then Again, Diane Keaton’s memoir, and Steve Jobs, the biography of the tech giant by Walter Isaacson.
And coincidentally, in the first few chapters of each, the subject turned to…fruit!
In Steve Jobs, we learn exactly how Apple Computer was named and we’re reminded how important names can…
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A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear.
Actually I think it’s more accurate to say that a genuine smile is the prettiest thing you can wear!
In a study published in the Academy of Management Journal last year, scientists tracked bus drivers, who smile at a whole bunch of people every day. It turns out that when they were “fake smiling” their moods deteriorated, but when…
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