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Reviewing Adobe Express: Make Marketing Materials, Fast

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Adobe asked me to review their Adobe Express program, that allows you to quickly, easily make marketing materials--thanks Adobe!   I wanted to see if it was worth it! If you have something to promote (such as a business, blog, artwork, novels, or are an influencer wanting more followers), Adobe Express lets you create marketing materials that looks like a graphic designer made it! This would be very expensive to buy, if you hired a graphic designer or advertising agency to create this for you. By the way, there is a free version also. I will be reviewing the paid Premium Adobe Express membership. To get either version, just click here.  This is the main screen. You can see how easy it is to use. You just click the project you want to get started. I made this poster in a few minutes for my Life Coaching book! You can make: Instagram or Facebook posts, posters, logos, YouTube thumbnail image, etc. The lion image in the circle was my own artwork. You easily select a photo to bring your ow
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My response to: 18 Ugly Truths About Modern Dating That You Have To Deal With

http://thoughtcatalog.com/christopher-hudspeth/2014/04/18-ugly-truths-about-modern-dating-that-you-have-to-deal-with/ My response to this article above. Read the link first, and then my response. I was moved by this article because these are frustrations which are SO common, and I know a lot of people feel this way. Over the years, some of my clients have expressed these same concerns. It can make a person feel very powerless, when they view the situation in this way. But it's also understandable, because we all feel disappointed and sometimes get hurt in dating situations.  There is another way to view what's going on, which I feel is more accurate, and also will help you feel more powerful and secure in your dating! Read on.  1. If someone is not that interested in you, it’s going to hurt your feelings. Get out of there fast. Love isn’t about power. If there are power games, get out of there, and get into something functional, where you are adored and admir
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The 12 Real Reasons We Don't Hire a Life Coach

I'll admit it. Even though I'm a Life Coach in Manhattan now (and have been coaching since 2005), there was a time when I wasn’t comfortable hiring anyone to help me:  not a life coach, not a therapist,  not even a personal trainer. Yup. Despite now knowing the huge benefits that working with these professionals brings, there was quite a long time in my life when I just didn't want to do that! So if you feel this way, I understand.  I've since worked with many coaches, therapists and personal trainers, and now, I eagerly seek out more help wherever I can find it, because I'm all about streamlining and making things more efficient. And hiring people to help only makes sense to me. It's what powerful people do. But back then I didn't feel this way AT ALL. I felt the opposite.  I had a lot of reasons.  And I’m wondering if any of you resonate with these reasons, which is why I'm posting this entry.  Do you know that the more emotionally healthy some
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How to Avoid the 5 Sins of Life Coaching -- 5 Things A Coach Should Never Do

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How to Avoid the 5 Sins of Life Coaching -- 5 Things  A Coach Should Never Do  By JulieMelillo In Life Coaching school , students learn techniques to become effective coaches with clients -- but knowing a fact from a book and applying it are two very different things. Coaches don't usually intend harm by not following the list of "coach sins" -- they instead have not yet trained themselves how to coach. Being a coach is not always easy and takes continued education and discipline. An ineffective coach can even create additional roadblocks for a client. For example, a bad coach can cause a client to begin to question their own ability to think and solve problems -- the very opposite of what should be accomplished: getting the client to trust themselves and their intuition. Anyone looking for a coach should keep these lists in mind, or forward to those you know who are looking for a coach. This applies to all areas of coaching. Dif
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The Power of Embracing the Present Moment -- and the One Thing That Stops Us

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We all want to live in the present moment, feeling connected, centered, and blissfully happy. We want to "tune in" to life around us. Yet often, this is the opposite of what happens. And despite the books we read, or the meditation classes we attend, it just seems impossible! Read on to find out what the real roadblock is, and how to change it. One thing that seeps into the present moment, is the past. All of the good and bad things about it. The comfort of remembering it, the shame of any bad things which we did. The mistakes and embarrassing moments. Remember that the past is gone. It happened because it needed to happen. You needed to experience it, in order to grow more fully into yourself. Now you've grown. And that past isn't yours anymore. It belongs to the " old you. " The future will be yours. It will belong to the "new you" you're about to become.  But right now, the only thing you own, is this moment. It is yours. Do
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NYC Elevators

Our restaurants are graded in NYC to ensure our safety-- and most of the time food will only make you sick for a short time. But our elevators aren't -- and elevators can injure or kill you -- my client's personal trainer was thrown against the ceiling when his elevator sped up too quickly and he's now paralyzed for life. And can we ever forget that that woman who was chopped in half when hers was stuck between floors and she stepped out just as it started moving? I can't forget that. Elevators should be graded with a framed certificate posted right by the elevator doors. The grade would include elevator violations, and whether they had been corrected, with a total score like restaurants do. Then you'd at least have the knowledge to KNOW if your elevator was safe, and you could choose if you wanted to step in. There are 10,000 accidents and 30 deaths a year from elevators that aren't maintained and malfunction. That would at least hold them accountable...and ma
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Why I'm no longer Recommending Match.com to My Clients

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Sorry Match.com, but I'm not longer recommending you to clients.  I was a loyal fan of Match.com for over the last 10 years, as it was clearly the leader, and it was easy to use. I've always recommended it both to friends and coaching clients, I've used it myself, and I developed a long list of techniques for both men and women to optimize their experience. However, with new design changes, I will no longer be recommending match.com to any of my clients. It's now overly slow, organized in a repetitive way where it's very difficult to get to the real information you need -- emails aren't stored -- winks are hard to access. And everything is put onto tiny screens where you can only see 4-5 people at a time and have to click on "next" and wait. There is no reason to use such a slow system that will probably add up to 5 or more hours of your time online dating per week. The past Match.com allowed you to quickly scan through a whole list of hundre
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