Step Out. Step Up.
Taking a sabbatical is an ideal activity for a Life Entrepreneur. It gives you a chance to explore new parts of yourself, learn something different, engage in activities that will allow you to return to work renewed and re-energized. In looking back at my life, I can see that I have been a committed “short [...]
Last Friday, I attended a compelling business presentation on “Turning Potential into Performance in Generation Y” by Dr. Tim Elmore of Growing Leaders, an Atlanta- based
non-profit organization created to develop emerging leaders. Tim talked about the different markets that have been established by the last five generations:The market for the “Greatest Generation” (1900-1928) was commodities. [...]
Remember Elderhostel? That learning program company where you needed to be old and stay in a dorm room? It’s gone.
On first glance, I always thought I would sign up for one of their programs. After I turned 50 and was a full-fledged AARP member, I had fun perusing the Elderhostel catalog of adventures that someday [...]
By the time I met Randy Hain for an early morning cup of coffee in an Atlanta suburb, he had already been awake for almost three and a half hours. I met Randy at 7:15 a.m.
Randy gets up every morning at 4 a.m. to meditate, pray, journal, read and think. It’s his quiet time, before [...]
What is it that keeps us doing the same things over and over, expecting to get a different result? Yes, that is the well-known definition of insanity, but it is also a glib cliché that few of us actually pay attention to in relation to our own lives.
As human beings, safety and security are high [...]