Today, my gift to you is a gift suggestion for those folks who live, eat, and breathe personal development, and/or for those hoping to achieve their New Year’s resolutions in 2008.
What’s important about this little story is not the actual drive from one location to another, or the details of what she’s going to do on that trip, where she’ll stay, what she’ll see or how she’ll spend her time.
What I think is important is the willingness to take a little longer to reach a destination, and to really explore the world while doing so.
There are a lot of people who say that they are “going” to do something; they’re going to quit smoking, quit eating junk food, become
Is it any wonder that the X and Y generations display such irreverent humor and disregard for authority? It’s because they’ve discovered that, to a great extent, “authority” has become a self-affixed label.”
David Bohl and Karen Ellenbecker team up to help Americans take a more active role in their finances and investment futures. In the past ten
I am often asked: “How do I let go of my obsession with money and instead focus on my quality of life?” I answer this
Although I often wonder why I need mail in today’s day and age, I’m not opting out of mail anytime soon. I am, however, taking the time to reconsider the amount and types of digital and print media that I consume. I’m controlling my subscriptions.
6 tips for keeping your life in order using the broken windows theory of crime fighting and prevention; available at Dumb Little Man.
Very few things are simple, and the more we try to simplify our thinking into this/that, black/white, good/bad, the worse we’re going to make our lives, because life just isn’t like that. We’re not like that, no one is like that, and no one ever will be.
Passion is about discovering what you like along with what you don’t like. Stimulate you five senses in order to invoke passion, and here are
The Cinnamon Bear is a radio program from the 1930’s that played six days a week from Thanksgiving until Christmas. It is about two characters,
One of the most freeing things we can learn in our lives is that it is okay to not be liked by everyone. When we
Donna Karlin writes: “Who are you giving your personal power away to and what are you going to do to get it back? When we
Amazon has made the new Kindle eBook reader. Various reviews and opinions mostly mixed. You either love it or you hate it.
When was the last time you sat down and wrote a letter? I’m not talking about an email. A real letter. By hand, preferably on your personal stationery with a fountain pen.
Writing letters has a lot of benefits, but I’ve noticed that since I entered the computer age, I have fallen out of the habit of writing letters. As a matter of fact, I actually struggle to write readably because I’m so unpracticed at it.
Time management, as a field, generally bugs me. I think most of the time there is too much focus on “efficiency” and “getting things done.” My problem is not usually in getting a certain number of things done. I can get fifty things done in one day if I try hard enough. However, there may be much more important things I really needed to get done.
When my kids went off to college, I was worried, as all parents are, if they were ready to embrace today’s world and not by consumed by it. I found comfort in the fact that their schools were providing them with email accounts and that I had provided them with cell phones with endless minutes. “How did my parents ever get along while I was away at school without instant access to me?” I wondered, but was quite grateful for the technological conveniences that today’s world offered to them (and to me!).
It took me a while to learn the ‘rules’ of communicating with young people who were stretching their wings of newfound independence.
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.” ~ William James If you’ve got
