Taking Advantage of Career Transition
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The Rules of Woo: Wow Customers, Create Success and Live the Life You Want
Aspiring, newly minted and experienced entrepreneurs rejoice! This week I happily devoured a second smart and engaging book to help us lead the life we want.
In my last post, I ditch Tony Robbins for Chris Guillebeau. (That was so easy!) Gurgling about the inspirational messages in Guillebeau’s book, “The ART of Non-Conformity: Set Your, Own Rules, Live the Life You Want and Change the [...]
Becoming Remarkable: Follow Chris Guillebeau – At Any Age
AARP would do well to pay Chris Guillebeau big bucks to be a spokesperson for their 50-something crowd. Chris won’t be eligible to join AARP for about 20 years, but so what? His writing is sharp, his message has guts, and his passion is contagious.
Chris Guillebeau has strong opinions about life, work and travel. [...]
Drama Descends Upon Life: Choosing Between Joy and Sorrow
Drama intersperses regular life unexpectedly. I’ve had my share of drama moments.
Like the time I (who walked the straight, narrow and confining path of “good girl”) entered the home of my parents while they were away camping to find my younger brother rolling joints at the kitchen table.
What are YOU doing?!!!!
What does it look like?
Get that out of here! [...]
What Can You Buy That Will Make You Long-Term Happy? Here You Go.
A raft of new research suggests spending money on an experience will make you happier than those new shoes or a Borsalino Super Fino Montecristi Men’s Fedora ($950).
“We’re moving from a conspicuous consumption – which is ‘buy without regard’ – to a ‘calculated consumption,’” says Marshal Cohen, an analyst at the NPD Group, a retailing [...]
I’m Eating, Praying and Loving What’s Coming … and You Will, Too!
I’m disappointed. I expected the reviews on the new movie, Eat, Pray, Love, to be better. They’re not so hot.
“… be warned that you are diving into a movie with the spiritual and emotional depth of a birdbath.” – St. Louis Suburban Journal.
“A bloated monster of a movie. … gargantuan running time.” – Cinema [...]
Your iPhone Diminishes Your Humanity. Are You Past Caring About That?
Do you know who Gary Shteyngart is? I did not.
Not until I got to the last page of the mid-July issue of the The New York Times Book Review. There, an essay by Gary Shteyngart titled “Only Disconnect” poured forth the real life dilemma of our techno-world. The writing is brilliant. It is a prose [...]
Is Your Brain Wired to the Office? Here’s a Sure Fire Way to Disconnect.
Yesterday, I tested out one of the recommendations on how to detach from the office suggested in the Wall Street Journal article, Why Relaxing is Hard Work, June 15, 2010. ”Try something new,” was the first suggestion for how to make sure your time away from the office is truly time detached from work.
Try something new. Learning something [...]
If Security is a Myth, Then What of Freedom?
An article in today’s Wall Street Journal discusses the role of chance in saving for retirement, arguing that we can’t depend on the average 30-year return that’s often touted. Much depends on which 30-year period we’re investing in. If your career coincides with a relatively flat period or the markets, there’s going to be a [...]
Your 168-Hour Week. Can’t You Wrestle That into Shape?
My Kindle edition of “168 Hours” by Laura Vanderkam just whooshed into my Home Page.
A lifetime, if calculated from week to week, is “simply 168 hours, back to back, repeated again and again,” according to Ms. Vanderkam. Subtract 56 weekly sleeping hours (eight a night) and 50 for work and you still have 62 unscheduled [...]
Owning the Life I’ve Built
Over a cup of coffee at Folly Beach, a wise friend told me what I needed to hear.
I’ve experienced several major changes in my life during the last six months, including putting a home I’ve owned for 13 years on the market and moving to another state. I told my friend that I feel as [...]