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Farmer’s Market Summer Salad

The Perfect Summer Salad for Your 4th of July Feast

Our favorite summer holiday is swiftly approaching and we’re busy prepping for the fun. For me, no matter what plans I have, two things always stay constant with my Fourth of July festivities fireworks and food. Since I have no business getting anywhere near the former, I like to turn my attention to the latter.

At the beginning of the year we invited all of you to join us in crafting your vision board. One of the focuses of mine, was to spend 2014 working on my craftiness and creativity. With that in mind this past Sunday, I headed to the Santa Monica Farmer’s Market, camera in hand, with two goals in mind. The first– to scout out some fresh ingredients for a summer salad recipe I could recreate for the Fourth of July weekend festivities. The second–to practice my photography skills with the DSLR camera I’ve been slowly learning to use.

As you head into this week, I also have two goals I’d like to pose to you. First, give this summer salad a go. Summer is the perfect time to shop for seasonal produce so make it your own by adding whatever fresh ingredients you find at your local market. Even if you aren’t a whiz in the kitchen, you’ll have a crowd-pleasing dish on your hands if you simply stick to great ingredients. Second, take a look back at your vision board and remind yourself of the goals you set for the year. We’re over half-way through 2014 so it’s a good time to check in.

Read on for a few tips to perfect your take on the perfect farmer’s market summer salad.

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June 30, 2014
Building Your Personal Brand

Creating A Personal Brand Equity Pyramid

At the heart of The Single Diaries is a genuine desire to help young women build a better relationship with themselves. In fact, it’s why we decided upon the name The Single Diaries. Our founding belief is that the most important relationship a girl can have is the one she has with herself. It’s our mission to help our readers discover what they are passionate about, learn to tackle the things they maybe aren’t so passionate about, and embrace an unconditional love for themselves.

In the past few months we’ve encouraged you to take several steps to get to better know this very important person (You!). We kicked off the year with a lesson in building your vision board to help you visualize your dreams and aspirations. We followed with a guide for answering the question ‘What Defines Me’. And now we are bringing you a lesson in building your personal brand starting with the creation of your personal brand equity pyramid.

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March 26, 2014
How I Learned to Love Running

And 10 tips for how you can learn to love running too!

As a marathoner and runner who’s been at it for over a decade, I often get into conversations with people about running. The good, the bad, the hard, the ugly, and mostly the excuses. Coming from a girl who laced up ballet slippers long before sneakers, believe me when I say anyone can become a runner if they set their mind to it. Here’s a little inspiration from my own relationship with running and my best advice to get you going.

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February 17, 2014
Creating Your Vision Board

The Single Diaries Step-by-Step Guide to Vision Board Building

Growing up it was a tradition in my family to spend New Year’s Eve writing down our individual and family goals for the coming year. We’d meticulously tick through all of the important topics—health, travel, education, career… until we’d exhausted our lists. I kept my list in an old school notebook while my parents captured theirs on a loose piece of paper they’d pin up on their bedroom mirror. At the culmination of our list building we’d pull out our list from the year before and check off each of the goals we’d successfully completed.

As time went on our list-building exercise evolved into vision board building. Rather than simply tucking our goals away on paper that drew little attention throughout the year, we captured them with pictures glued to a poster board. My parents kept the board posted up so we could see our goals every day. The idea was that the more we saw our goals, the more likely we were to see them realized.

I always loved this annual ritual of ours especially revisiting the prior year’s goals and seeing how many things and seemingly, magically, come true. Books like, The Secret, and even Oprah Winfrey preach the practice of vision board building… attributing the “magic” that helps our goals come to fruition to a physical law of attraction that draws what we put out into the universe back to us. In this case, the act of putting our goals into a vision board is the act of letting the universe know what it is we want to attract.

Towards the end of college, I picked back up my family’s tradition and began building my own vision board at the beginning of each new year. Though it takes some planning ahead, the practice helps me start my year imagining all that is possible and getting focused on making it happen. And surely enough, every time I revisit previous boards I see that most of my visions have come true. Call it magic, the law of attraction, or whatever you will, I do believe there is power in articulating, capturing, and keeping your goals in front of you that allows them to actualize.

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January 6, 2014
I Quit My Job to Follow My Dreams

Jen Makes the Big Jump to Pursue her Passion

“For all the single girls reading this I hope we can all look back at our lives and know that we’ve had the courage to make the tough decisions that bring us closer to our dreams”

It’s almost too hard to believe that I am writing these words but today marks my last day in my job with Procter and Gamble. I’ve chosen to quit in pursuit of my dream job and more importantly my dream life.

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November 1, 2013