Happy Wednesday!
It turned out to be a nice day here in Central Ontario! I went out for breakfast this morning, and it was quite mild outside. A far cry from the freezing rain that graced us with its presence yesterday. Even Shaun said he nearly landed on his butt in the parking lot last night, so I didn’t feel so bad when I almost fell earlier in the day!
There’s a lot going on here today. I’m learning how to not double up my to do list when I don’t get things done the day before, but it still means I have a lot to do today because some things can’t be moved.
For example, today is the last day to submit for this year’s New Year, New Habits bundle. It’s looking right now like we’ll have about 30 products as of right now, but you never know how many more will submit at the last minute. I’m bad for waiting right until the deadline myself or asking for an extension, I know we’re going to have a great bundle to start the year!
There’s still a few more hours to get your products in if you have something you were thinking of sharing.
New Year, New Habits Bundle – Contributor’s Info
And because I’m all about the to-do list this week, today’s read is an oldie-but-goodie from the archives…
Today’s Read: 5 Reasons Your To-Do List Doesn’t Always Get Done
There’s always so much going on in the online world that sometimes it’s really hard to keep your focus on what you know you need to be doing and being consistent at getting it done. At least, that’s always been my experience.
I don’t know about you, but I start every day with a to-do list. The sad thing about that is that on a lot of days, there’s not much that gets done. Other things crop up, I go down rabbit holes in a completely different direction, or sometimes I’m just plain old undproductive with a capital UN.
What about you? Did you make a to-do list for the day? Are you following it, or are you off in another direction?
If you are, don’t feel too bad. There’s a statistic floating around out there that says approximately 41% of items on most people’s to-do lists never get done. Part of the reason for that is because we don’t always make the right kind of to-do lists.
Here are five reasons your to-do list doesn’t always get done:
And now, here are your deals for today…
Deals Ending Today
Email Marketing Beyond the Basics is the latest release from Sharyn at Content Sparks. This training covers how to maximize your email marketing results by doing more than just releasing a simple lead magnet. There are 6 modules in the course as follows:
- Module 1 – How to Use Lists and Tags Together
- Module 2 – List Segmentation Essentials
- Module 3 – Automate Your Email Marketing
- Module 4 – Personalize Your Email Marketing
- Module 5 – Test and Measure Your Email Content
- Module 6 – Next Steps
Purchase before Wednesday, January 18 and you’ll also get a 5-day Challenge you can use as a lead magnet to get your audience interested in the course content.
I’m personally really excited to get my hands on this and learn as much as I can. And you can bet that as I build out my own course library, I’ll be using some of the material in this DFY training to share my own experiences with more advanced email marketing tactics.
Low Content Resources
NEW!! Busy Family Organizer from MaryJo at CoolBeanPLR is available this week and on sale for only $9 through January 25 – no coupon required. This Canva template includes several unique layouts all designed for keeping the entire family on the same page and organized throughout the week. Here’s what’s included:
- 2023 at a glance
- Weekly to-do list
- Daily schedule
- -Scheduling family fun
- Undated 12-month activity calendar
- Meal planning
- Grocery lists
- Income & expense tracking
- Savings tracker
- School information
- Homework tracking
- Medical information
- Cleaning chart
- Chore chart
- Vacation planning
NEW!! Mystic Moon Limitless Design Kit now available from Katherine at Oasis Lane. It’s only available as part of her Limitless Design membership through February 14. I love Katherine’s packs not only because she creates gorgeous images, she also has one of the most generous licences available in that you get extended rights to use these to create PLR, digital products, physical products, and TEMPLATES.
NEW!! Ballerinas Watercolor Clip Art from Virginie at Oxyp PLR Design is available on sale this week through Monday, January 23. Save 50% with coupon code BAWACA50. The package includes 33 watercolor clip art images in PNG format that can be used in your own printable creations.
NEW!! Air BNB Planner Bundle from Di & Simone at PLR Planners is available and on sale this week. Save 20% with code BNB20 through Monday, January 23. I think this is a great idea if you serve the travel niche, because it gives your customers everything they need to set up and run their own BNB business.
Choose from either PowerPoint or Affinity formats, and Print, Digital or a Bundle of both planners.
When you choose the bundle option you also get extra digital papers and stickers to go with your planners.
Shop the Bonuses Sale from Gabby at A Cup of Zen is on now through January 31. You can save 35% on all products that she’s now released into the shop, and that were previously only available as bonuses. There’s a great mix of products including:
- Done-for-You Content
- Training Programs
- Coloring Pages
- Stickers
- Templates
- And more!
2 New PLR Toolbox Kits from Fran are now in her store. These are mixed packs with written content, templates, content upgrades, social media posts, journal prompts, and vertical videos. These were in a couple of different bundles (which I apparently missed, because I’d have been all over these) so check to make sure you don’t already have them.
The two kits are:
Productivity Hacks PLR Toolbox
Self-Limiting Beliefs PLR Toolbox
Two New Products from Sue are now available in her shop. These are the two products that were in her Santa Sack offer in December, so if you bought that you already have these. The two products are:
Blue Zones Lifestyle Journal – coupon code BLUEZONES saves $7 through Friday, January 20.
Digital Memory Journal – coupon code MEMORY saves $7 through Friday, January 20
Steampunk Valentines Coloring Pages from Jay at Coloring Galaxy are on sale this week through Sunday, January 22. Use coupon code VALENTINE to save 50% on all products in the funnel. The main offer is 25 line art elements in PNG and PSD formats.
Creative New Year Coloring Calendar Journal from Jenn at Passion for PLR is on sale this month. Use coupon code CREATEJAN to save 50% through January 31st. The package includes:
- 12 monthly pages with dated calendar and colorable affirmation
- 12 dot-grid journal pages
Written & Video PLR
Early Bird Pricing Today Only! Breaking Negative Habits Report & Planner from Publish for Prosperity is available today only on early bird pricing. Add this pack of 5 free “Breaking Negative Habits” articles to your account, and you’ll see a special offer for the full pack that’s better than the launch price tomorrow!
Air Fryer Recipes Volume 1 from Kitchen Bloggers is available on sale for the next 72 hours. You get 8 new recipes with photos, plus 1 bonus recipe and 36 extra photos. From now through Saturday, you can save 60% with coupon code Save60_4_72.
Course Content Planner from Coach Glue on sale this week. Use code 50 to save 50% through Thursday, January 19. This planner includes 57 pages that cover:
- Step 1: Your Soul-Aligned Pathway For Course Success
- Step 2: Creating a Lucrative Course Offer That Makes Your Audience Swoon
- Step 3: Cultivate A Transformational Experience
- Step 4: Strategize Your Most Profitable Course, Ever
- Step 5: Catapult the Course Creation Process With A Streamlined System
- Step 6: Hammer in Your Students’ Success With Supporting Content
- Step 7: Cultivate Your Irresistible Course Program with Ease
The AI Marketing Playbook Now Includes ChatGPT
AI Marketing Playbook PLR from Charles is on sale this week, and it’s been updated to include new videos all about ChatGPT! If you haven’t seen all the hoopla about ChatGPT yet, I think it really does deserve a look and a play… I played around with it a bit last week and was pretty impressed. The new videos included in this package cover:
- 0001 – Start an Account with ChatGPT
- 0002 – What the Company OpenAI Says About Itself
- 0003 – What OpenAI Says About The Limitations of the Chatbot
- 0004 – Chatbot Prompt Examples Given By Open AI
- 0005 – Will Chat GPT Be a Paid Application
- 0006 – Chat GPT Idea Generation
- 0007 – Chat GPT – Idea Qualification and Accuracy
- 0008 – ChatGPT – Accuracy and Citations
- 0009 – Chat GPT – Creating HTML Instances
- 0010 – Chat GPT – How to Solve Specific Business Problems
- 0011 – Chat GPT – Statistical Verification of Information
- 0012 – Chat GPT – Rewrite Content for Different Contexts
- 0013 – ChatGPT Content Checked With AI
- 0014 – ChatGPT – Simplifying Information
- 0015 – ChatGPT – How to Ask the Chatbot about Context
- 0016 – ChatGPT – How to Cross Post Queries
- 0017 – ChatGPT – How to Narrow Down the Context of Your Query
- 0018 – ChatGPT – How to Solve a Business Process
- 0019 – ChatGPT – Developing a Methodology From Experts
- 0020 – The Future of ChatGPT
How to Get Your Groove Back Content Kit from Jenn at Passion for PLR is available this month for 50% off when you use coupon code GROOVEJAN through January 31. This pack includes:
- Affirmations – 30 affirmations to add to a journal or provide to your audience.
- Canva Templates – 12 different templates. Fully editable free in Canva.
- Photos – 4 links to photo sites with creative commons license.
- Epic Blog Post – 2672-word blog post called “Get Into a New Groove”
- Self Survey – 10 questions or prompts to help your audience to get their groove back
- Social Messages – 30 messages taken from the blog posts to share on your social media accounts.
Mini Packs from Piggy Makes Bank for this month are out today. Each pack includes 5 Articles, 5 Emails, eBook Compilation, 5 Social Media Posts and 5 social media images. Use code 10JAN23 to save $10 on each one.
Topics are:
Five Unexpected Ways to Make More Sales
What You Should Know Before You Have a Health Crisis
Five Critical Thinking Skills Everybody Needs
Tools & Training
NEW!! Course Creation Challenge from Cindy Bidar is on an early bird sale from today through January 27. Save $50 off the regular registration fee when you register during this period. The cart closes for good on January 31. This is a special live cohort training that starts on February 1, and Cindy is going to show you how to:
- Choose and validate your ideas, so you don’t waste time creating a course that won’t sell
- Quickly outline and write your video scripts and create slide decks (no, you don’t have to be a good writer OR a designer to follow this plan)
- Record lesson videos even if you’re camera shy or struggle with technology
- Create interactive workbooks to build engagement and add value to your offer
- Upload all your course material to Teachable (no more course platform overwhelm)
- Test everything to avoid embarrassing faux pas like missing access permissions or broken links
AND she’ll show you exactly how to write a sales page that entices your audience and makes sales.
NEW!! Vision Boards Mini Course from Marian is her first release of the new year. It’s on sale this week for only $15 through Sunday, January 22. The course covers how to
- Create vision boards in PowerPoint
- Offer them as one-off or personalized products for sale
- Create templates to sell
Low Content Intel Reports from Amy Smereck are on sale through Monday, January 23. This is one of my must-have resources for doing KDP and printables publishing. Choose between a monthly subscription at $14.95 or save even more with an annual subscription.
Use coupon code NEWYEARSALE for the monthly option or
Use coupon code NEWYEARANNUAL for the annual option
Each month you receive a 50-60 page report on one low-content book genre such as planners, journals, coloring books, workbooks, and puzzle books.
The digital versions of Leonie’s “My Brilliant Year” Workbooks are available now and you can get them either as standalone products or as part of the Brilliant Biz and Life Academy (where you get access to all Leonie’s courses and products for only $99/year). I’m a member of the Academy and I grabbed the PDF versions the other day so that I can upload them to my iPad and use them as digital notebooks!
Bundle Option added to the Valentine’s Day Content Sale
I’ve added a bundle option to the Valentine’s Day Content Sale and put everything all on one page for easy access for you to check out each package. Now you can save even more (over 60% from the regular prices if purchased separately) when you grab the bundle of all 6 packages for $67. No coupon is needed for the bundle option, and it will go away on February 1 when the sale ends.
Events on Now
Free Self-Care Planner and Other Goodies in the Connected Spirit Giveaway
Remember when I told you the other day about how I was invited at the last minute to submit something for an event? It was Sherry Bowers’ Connected Spirit Connected Business event, which I usually participate in every year, but didn’t sign up for this year because I had too many other things on my plate.
So, this year I contributed a brand new Misty Mandala Self-Care Planner for 2023 (personal use only) that I was going to use for something else I ended up not participating in. You can get that and 20+ other gifts here, absolutely free through January 24:
The Connected Spirit Connected Business New Year’s Giveaway
Graphics Deals
600 Premium Valentines Overlays & Frames Bundle from Inky Deals
The Creative’s Collection of Secret Treasures from Design Cuts
Freebies
New!! 5 free “Breaking Negative Habits” articles from Publish for Prosperity
Free Waves Line Art Collection from Design Cuts
Free epic blog post pack from Sharyn at Content Sparks. The topic of the post is: “5 Reasons Why Settling for Email Marketing That’s ‘Good Enough’ Could Actually Harm Your Business”
Part-Time Entrepreneurial Success PLR from Piggy Makes Bank – Includes 7 articles & 7 Emails
Free Moon Calendar from Gabby at A Cup of Zen – This is a dated 2023 Calendar showing daily phases of the moon and comes with 4 background pages.
Free “How to Sell Printables Online” Tutorial from Ekit Hub comes with a downloadable copy of the tutorial and a sampler pack of printable templates to get you started.
That’s it for me this afternoon. I’m off to make a pot of tea, and then get to work on the rest of my to-do list.
Have an amazing day! Create what makes your heart happy!


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