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"There's a special place in hell
for women who don't
[help other women.]"
**Madeleine Albright -* The actual quote is found at the end of this interview.

I am trying to make my efforts to stay out of hell. (kids... it's biblical)*

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Contributed • Article • OnlineSchools.com

Moms: 5 ways education can enrich your life
Mary Fineday • Dec 5, 2011
"Shannon Christensen's first trip to college ended in a roadblock. She started an art program with high hopes..."

Contributed • Article • Community Health Magazine

Allecia Vermillion, "Til Death Do Us Part" Community Health, page 37-38, July 2010

I was asked about our marriage for Community Health Magazine and was quoted in the article. It is interesting what writers will pull out of a conversation to include. It's a good article with only one error - we've been married 28 years at this point, not 24.

Article by Allecia Vermillion/Shannon Christensen

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Contributed • Article • FamilyGoesStrong.com

SUSAN KUCHINSKAS, Top 10 Ways to Get Teens to Help Out - 9 July 2010
One of my ideas was quoted in this article about getting kids to work. Cleaning is a valuable life skill that sometimes kids are resistant to. (Imagine that!) Having tips to help teach them is part of a good parental game plan. There are 10 more of my ideas on getting kids to help out found here.

Contributed • Speaking • World Family Policy Center Banquet Speaker

After winning the World Family Policy Center's art contest with Guardians of the Family I was asked to speak at the banquet for the international delegation. My remarks were about the allegory and symbolism I designed into the painting I did. It was about the traditional family and the importance of each family member. Some of the diplomats, opinion leaders, and scholars were from UK, India, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Africa and they took home prints of the painting to their countries.

Contributed • Speaking • 11th Annual Family Law Conference • The Missouri Bar

The Missouri Bar • 11th Annual Family Law Conference Presentation • Shannon Christensen & Leila Christensen
If You're Not Online, You Don't Exist

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Contributed • Speaking • Youth Groups

Over the past 2 decades I have had many opportunities to speak to youth groups on leadership skills, goal setting, and values based living. (I've also spoken to women's groups on similar topics.) It's always a pleasure to share an evening like this.

Speaking to a youth group 12 - 18 year olds about goals and goal setting.

Contributed • Teaching • Confidence to Learn Workshop

Confidence to Learn website (confidencetolearn.com)

Contributed • eBook • Business Basics - The START Series: Skills ™

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Business Basics -The START Series: Skills™
free ebook download • 10 page ebook

Designed for women who are wondering...
   What kind of business can I start?
   What business would I be thrilled starting?
   What could be the angle my business has that others don’t?
   What resources do I have available to start a business?
   Do I have the temperament to start a business?
It's a DIY (Do It Yourself), sequential course that answers your question.
This is the first in a series of five.

Quotes I Like...

That was the upward climb envisioned for the good society in the burgeoning new American republic.
David McCullough • The Course of Human Events

The [American] Revolution.... It lasted eight and a half years, and [John] Adams,
because of his unstinting service to his country, was separated from his family nearly all that time, much to his and their distress.
In a letter from France he tried to explain to them the reason for such commitment.

I must study politics and war [Adam's wrote]
that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history,
naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture
in order to give their children
a right to study paintings, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

Some people quietly make a difference in our lives,
and will always be heroes unaware.
-Flavia

I believe in CELEBRATING, CREATING, & CONTRIBUTING to Art & Family

It's the small, bitesized, steps that make it all happen.
And if you're busy raising a family then small steps are all you have.

Don't just take my word for it.
Here's a few other's ideas about being Bitesized.

Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval

"Whether your goal is to perk up your relationship,
conquer the clutter in your closet or
re-energize your business,
we can all benefit by
cutting what we do into bite-size pieces."

The Power of Small,
Linda Kaplan Thaler & Robin Koval, pg 68

Christine Kane

"...until we learn how to leverage our small windows of time,
we won’t be all that great at using our big imaginary unending sabbaticals.
However, the dream of days upon days of uninterrupted time
with no appointments and no to-dos
makes a very good excuse to not do what we say
is the most important thing to us."

ChristineKane.com

Christine Carter, Ph.D

"Producing a sea change in our happiness may seem like
a monumental undertaking, but actually, more often than not
big changes come from a succession of small steps."

Sociologist, Mother, Author,
Raising Happiness: 10 Simple Steps for More Joyful Kids and Happier Parents

Barbara Corcoran - Real Estate & Shark Tank

She's talking in regards to negotiating skills and not getting the "ideal" outcome of going in and getting "what you want and get out of there".
Her response to a less than desirable result from an interaction.

"Sometimes it takes 2 or 3 pieces, it's like a book with chapters. Sometimes you have to take a chunk at a time to get to where you want to go."
Interview by Andrienne Graham

Interview by Andrienne Graham
Swimming With the Sharks

Kelly Kingman - Stickyebooks

"It’s great to have a grasp of the big picture. A whole novel. A clean house. A target weight. A completed project. But when you’re looking at getting started, that’s insanely overwhelming. You can’t wrap your head round it in a meaningful way, because it needs hours of work —
way more than you can do in one session. The trick is to break it down. "
The Sticky eBook Formula,
Kelly Kingman, pg 12

Gary Vaynerchuk

"If you already have a full-time job, you can get a lot done between 7:00 pm and 2:00 am. (9:00 pm to 3:00 am if you've got kids),
so learn to love working during those pre-dawn hours."

Crush It! Gary Vaynerchuk, pg 13

Will Smith

Telling about the true story of his father's request that he and his brother
build a brick wall down the side of a building -
"You don't set out to build a wall.
You don't say, 'I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest
wall that's ever been built.' You don't start there.
You say, "I'm going to lay this brick
as perfectly as a brick can be laid."
And you do that every single day. And soon you have a wall."

Video Compilation of Will Smith Wisdom by Matthew D. Morris

Christine Kloser

"I know, for me personally, when I first looked at doing informational products
it was like, oh my gosh, how in the world do I do this?
And I focused on how overwhelming I thought it was and then
when I broke it down, step by step, and just got started It was like, va-room!
You know, it just rolled itself right out in front of me
exactly what it was supposed to be."

Successful Author Secrets Audio

Stephanie Chandler

"Sometimes a goal seems so big that you don't know where to start.
But when you break a goal down into small, digestible bites,
you can begin to tick off the list of actions one by one."

Leap! 101 Ways to Grow Your Business, Stephanie Chandler pg 26

Michael Hyatt

I have always been fascinated by the power of incremental change over time.
Most people underestimate this. They think they have to take
massive action to achieve anything significant....
I’m convinced you can do almost anything if you are willing to clarify your goals and then make the incremental investment over time to achieve them.

MichaelHyatt.com

Matt Cutts

"I learned that when I made small, sustainable changes, things I could keep doing, they were more likely to stick. There's nothing wrong with big, crazy challenges, in fact,
they're a ton of fun, but they're less likely to stick."
TED talk

"There's a special place in hell for women who don't [help other women.]" *Madeleine Albright - *The actual quote is found at the end of this interview.I am trying to make my efforts to stay out of hell. (kids... it's biblical)