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I Won The AppSumo Lean Startup Challenge!

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I’m excited to announce I won!  Thank you everyone who voted for me on Twitter, left encouraging words and signed up to get notified about my new startup UseYourDeals!

I have won mentoring time with two amazing mentors who have a huge amount of experience starting companies!

This took my breath away!  There were over 100 entries into the contest.  They selected 11 winners  I applied at the tail end of the contest but thanks to my desire to be successful and your help, I won!  Now there are other prizes they’re awarding as well but I really wanted to get some one-on-one time to get help and direction with my new startup!

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Thank You for Voting! AppSumo Lean Startup Challenge [VIDEO]

Update: I won the contest!

Hey everyone!  Thank you again sooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo much for voting for me with the Twitter hashtag #leanvote82 in the AppSumo Lean Startup Challenge contest!  They will be announcing the winners soon and I wanted to make sure I gave you all a big ole thank you for your help, encouragement and support!!!  My contest entry from last week was: Keeping My Startup Lean Like Beef Jerky and I launched my startup in 24 hours.  The awesome name, UseYourDeals was crowd sourced and @Kiratiana came up with it in the Beluga group!

Over 100 startups entered the contest and they will soon announce the winners!


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Vote For Adria In The Lean Startup Challenge Today!

Hey Everyone!

I submitted my contest entry last night for the App Sumo Lean Startup Challenge. I would appreciate your support to help me win so I can take my startup from paper to production! Last year I entered a chance to work with Seth Godin for a day and although I didn’t win, I was happy I took the chance and entered!

What I need you to do: You to vote for me! (Instructions below)

What you will get: A personalized thank you on Wednesday in a YouTube video and my everlasting Twitter gratitude!

Voting Instructions

Step 1. Be prepared to help me win and spread good karma!

Step 2. Click this link which is the same link as the Twitter icon located near my name at http://appsumo.com/leanvote/ (I’ve removed the other 40+ entries to make things clear!)

Step 3. Tweet that item out. That’s it!

Share on Twitter

Thanks soooooo much! I will be thanking each person who tweets this out in a YouTube video on Wednesday!

Karate Kid Moment: Do One Thing Well In The Present Moment And Let Go Of Your Baggage

In this clip, Mr. Miyagi has Daniel wash and wax all the cars that came in from Detroit. He explains,

“Walk on road. Walk right side; safe. Walk left side; safe. Walk middle, sooner or later *squish*, just like grape.”

This is because Daniel answered Mr. Miyagi with a, “I guess so.”

The message here is that your actions, thoughts and results should be definitive. If you are doing something half heartedly, you will not achieve your full potential. Do your very best in the moment and live for the present. Of course we all giggle when Daniel is made to wash all the cars that came in from Detroit but he was being taught to narrow his focus. Wax on with his right hand, wax off with the left. Systematic, methodical, predictable.

This morning, I had a flashback to this part of the film due to an amazing meeting yesterday which led to an amazing breakthrough…
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Gifts: MAC Makeup and other glamour from @afrobella

Blogalicious 2010 - Patrice, Adria, Nichelle, Luvvie

I received a set of wonderful makeup items from Patrice from Afrobella.com. Thank you!
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Gift: Personalized Women’s Study Bible from @tammyhart

Thank you to my good friend Tammy Hart for sending me a spiritually based gift for my birthday!
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Gift: Godiva Chocolate Gold Ballotins 8 Piece Set from @aravindajith

Thank you to Aravind for picking up a set of chocolates for me for my birthday!  
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Gift: xkcd Volume 0 and The Edison Gene books from @s0l_uk Bill!

@s0l_uk got me two awesome books from my Amazon Wishlist for my birthday!
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San Francisco Apartment Research And Twitter Lurking

So next month I’m moving to San Francisco. It almost doesn’t seem real!
San Francisco
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Twitter hashtag: #movetoSF
Since December, I’ve been perusing the ads of Craigslist to get an idea of what I could expect once I made the decision to move to San Francisco. Read More…

My First Follow Friday Tweet In German!

Today @janexnerteam gave me a #FollowFriday / #FF shout out in a different language…German! Pretty cool!

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Hey Little Sis, I Love You Too

I’m not sure how to start this blog post so I’m just going to start writing. Today I’m not writing about technology. Today I got a card and a couple of gifts from my sister, Gwendolyn. I haven’t talked to her since 2008.

Hello Kitty Gwendolyn Happy Birthday Adria

I love my sister. It brings me much pain to realize how our childhood has affected her as an adult. I know that I always seem happy, excited, optimistic and ready for the next challenge that life brings my way. Unfortunately, her life and thoughts have been very different.

She suffers from depression. I didn’t really understand what this meant. I thought depression was something that was temporary. I thought it could be cured if things in life got better for you. I thought medication helped make life better if you have depression.

I know it took a lot for her to muster up the courage to do this.
Hello Kitty Gwendolyn Happy Birthday Adria

Whenever I think of depression, that commercial with the cloud comes to mind where that’s sad person is always followed by that sad cloud.  Then I think of the more happy, parody version MadTV did:

Pretty much 99.9999% of the time, I am happy, joyous, grateful, full of energy about life!  Sometimes, I have felt guilty that I am just so excited about being alive while others seem to find the world a horrible place to exist.
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Today is My 32nd Birthday! [VIDEO]

Today I celebrated another birthday and again, I didn’t celebrate it alone because I had Twitter and Facebook folks along for the ride! This year, I live tweeted my birthday!
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I had a spa day at Juut, went for lunch at the Cheesecake Factory and reflected on the present moment.  Last year, I did a birthday blog post too but felt uncomfortable about it since I was still finding my voice on my blog.  Now I’m letting it all hang out!!!!

Adria’s 2010 Birthday Video on YouTube

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My Day At Juut Spa

I did a few audio thoughts today as well right after my massage and facial.  Kelly did my massage and was beyond wonderful!  She had me pick out a set of aromatherapy oils before the session started and also did a mini consultation with me to find out what I wanted for the massage.
The Massage Room at Juut
Since I do yoga, I don’t have many aches and pains but did share my desire to relax and reflect on my future.  It was so easy to do!  I passed between active thoughts and sleep.  It was all very pleasant as I thought about my accomplishments of the past year and ran through various future situations I wanted to find myself in like my trip to London in June.  You should ask for Kelly when you go in for a massage at the Edina Juut *smile*

I choose Juut because I’ve been to the Minneapolis location in Uptown over the years for waxing, massage and hair styling.  They’ve always been professional, classy, clean and well managed.  They have all Aveda products in their stores and the tea is delicious!
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Embrace Change In Your Career: SCORE “Women in Business”

I am honored that I’ve been asked to speak at tomorrow’s SCORE event, “Women in Business” Luncheon.

SCORE“Embrace Change” Tomorrow I will share how I adapted my consulting business to focus on what I enjoyed, located tools to help me work better, carved my niche and found the courage to step out of my comfort zone. Read More…

I Won a Full Access Pass To Blogworld 2009 from John Chow!

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Wow, as I write this, I still feel breathless.

I just won a full access pass to the largest blogging conference on earth from John Chow!!!!!!!!!!!

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