ElizabethPW

I Am a Writer. So What.

Posted on 06. Feb, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

I’ve written 22,000+ tweets. Hundreds of blog posts. Published a book.
There are 24 entries in my “blog post ideas” text file. A few one-liners, a few with a couple bullet points, and two that are brain dumps of half-formed paragraphs and unconnected ideas.
I spend a fair amount of my life in the creation of content. [...]

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Do You Want Every Day to be Epic?

Posted on 01. Feb, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Of course you do.
Join @ElizabethPW and @AllisonNazarian for the weekly twitter chat “Epic Adventures in Everyday Life” (#epicchat) on Wednesdays at 5:00 PM Pac / 8:00 PM EST
Join EPW (closer-to-the-edge girl) and ANaz (closer-to-home girl) as they explore:

How life doesn’t stop when you become a mom … it begins.
Why you need (at least) [...]

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Why I’m Letting Go of Things That Make Money

Posted on 23. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

In the last 30 days, I decided to not relaunch The Money Tree System, to put my book Grow Up! Strategies on clearance, and to shut down TheWealthSpa.com.
These decisions seem completely unreasonable.
The program makes money. The book was already printed. The website got google organic traffic.
But sometimes the only way to move forward is [...]

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The Profoundness of a T-Shirt

Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Not sure exactly when it was, probably 10 or 12 years ago, when I stopped buying t-shirts.
Because grown-up professionals don’t wear t-shirts, right?
They wear sweaters and blouses and button downs. Jackets over cute tops with coordinating scarves and necklaces. Tailored pants. Heels.
And so I thought that was what I was “supposed” to do.
But then [...]

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The EPW Bucket List: Who Wants to Join Me?

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

What’s a bucket list?
A “bucket list” is everything you want to do before you “kick the bucket” — everything you want to do before you die.
The first time I made a bucket list was in my freshman year of high school.
It was 1989. Sitting in the back of an auditorium filled with 1600 honors [...]

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How to Incorporate Adventure into Ordinary Life

Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

The top question I got from my adventure/crazy posts: Sake & Ziplines, Couches & Swords: What I Learned on #austinadventures w/ @CouchSurfingOri, The Real Reason I’m Moving to San Francisco (video), and Making the Commitment to Signposts & Sh*t Piles was …
yes, I love the idea of adventure, but I have kids, I don’t have [...]

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The Real Reason I’m Moving to San Francisco

Posted on 16. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

Yes, I was planning to move to San Diego. Yes, I’ve been talking about it since August. Yes, now I’m moving to San Francisco.
And yes, you are not the only person to wonder, what the heck is up w/ that?
Here’s the video to explain why ….

So what do you need to do to restructure your [...]

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Sake & Ziplines, Couches & Swords: What I Learned on #austinadventures w/ @CouchSurfingOri

Posted on 14. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

I sat down to write this blog post about my adventures in Austin 4+ hours ago. But I did not even opened up a blank text document to get started until this moment.
Instead, I futzed around on twitter. Facebook. Skype. Checked my Google Analytics. Researched when Lilith Fair will be touring this summer.
And then randomly [...]

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Why I’m Not Setting Goals or Picking Words for 2010

Posted on 06. Jan, 2010 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

(This post is the lame post that I didn’t publish a few days ago. But, now I’m thinking maybe it really wasn’t lame. Either way, following the assignments of my amazing commenters, here you go. If you like it, good. If not, I warned you.)
Here’s the process taught by Pax Programs to find your four [...]

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