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5 Business Lessons from the Fight of the Century That Never Was

May 8, 2015 by Maricel Rivera Leave a Comment

5 Business Lessons from the Fight of the Century That Never Was

Much has been said about the “fight of the century.” I’m talking about the match between undefeated American boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (48-0) and the Philippines’ Manny Pacquiao (57-6-2), also known as the Pacman, that happened at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on May 2, 2015. Mayweather won the fight via a unanimous […]

Filed Under: Business, Lessons Learned, Marketing Tagged With: fight of the century, mayweather, money team, pacquiao, team pacman

Lessons on Procrastination: On Messing Up and Getting Your Act Together

May 24, 2014 by Maricel Rivera Leave a Comment

Lessons on Procrastination: On Messing Up and Getting Your Act Together

Many thanks for completing these sample articles. We appreciate that they take time to research and write. I’m very sorry to inform you that we won’t be able to offer you a position at this time, as your articles did not meet our tone of voice requirements. Although your research was absolutely fantastic, in so […]

Filed Under: Lessons Learned, Motivation, Personal, Writing Tagged With: lessons learned, procrastination, wasting time

Mentoring Session with Sophie Lizard, the Force behind BAFB

January 26, 2014 by Maricel Rivera 2 Comments

Mentoring Session with Sophie Lizard, the Force behind BAFB

In a previous post, I shared that I was awarded a freelance blogging scholarship by one of the industry greats, Sophie Lizard of Be a Freelance Blogger (BAFB). Today, at 4:00 a.m., local time, I got to speak with her via Google Hangouts. Other participants were unable to attend for a number of reasons – […]

Filed Under: Freelancing, Lessons Learned, Marketing, Productivity Tagged With: mentoring, sophie lizard

What My Kids Teach Me about Freelancing and Life in General

September 23, 2013 by Maricel Rivera 5 Comments

What My Kids Teach Me about Freelancing and Life in General

Forrester said in Finding Forrester, and I quote: “No thinking. That comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is to write, not to think!” I may not be doing that line justice with this article, but yes, I always try to take […]

Filed Under: Freelancing, Lessons Learned, Personal Tagged With: children, freelancing lessons, kids

Value Is Something You Give Away (Lesson Learned from a Promotion that Almost Never Came)

September 9, 2013 by Maricel Rivera 2 Comments

Value Is Something You Give Away (Lesson Learned from a Promotion that Almost Never Came)

Three years ago, I had a closed-door meeting with my supervisor. She told me that staff promotions were in order and that I, unfortunately, didn’t make the cut. She said that I had been seriously considered given my consistently good performance, but in the interest of equality, they had to pass me up because my […]

Filed Under: Freelancing, Lessons Learned, Motivation Tagged With: giving away value, lesson learned, value

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