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Information Overload and the Death of Email: What We Can Learn from Our Kids

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.

November 26, 2007

Balance Your Life Simply By Changing Your Attitudes and Beliefs

“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

November 23, 2007

Beware of Healthy Restaurants

Feeling a little stuffed after yesterday’s meal?
Still cleaning up the dishes?
Don’t feel like cooking today?
Be careful if you decide to dine out.

November 23, 2007

Is it Time to Turn up the Heat in Your Life?

212 Degrees – one extra degree of effort, in business and life, can separate the good from the great.

November 21, 2007

Old Creeds vs. New Creeds

by David B. Bohl Life balance. How do we attain a balanced life today amid all of societal expectations? Many of us were raised and

November 20, 2007

The Secret of Fatherhood

I was reading Dana Glazer’s (Director of The Evolution of Dad) post For Charlie, on His 4th Birthday the other day. I really liked it, and it unearthed a memory of mine: that of writing a similar letter to my son shortly before he left home for college. found that letter.

November 20, 2007

Small Business Trends Column: Entrepreneurs, Does Retirement Fit Into Your Plans?

The underlying message became loud and clear, and formed a blueprint for life: If I just work hard enough and long enough, my life will turn out just fine — eventually – and it will all be worth it in the end.

Many of us do not fit or identify with the generation we are born into.

November 19, 2007

Personal Development: What’s Your Dream?

Priscilla Palmer of PriscillaPalmer.com directed me to Neil Sattin’s Reveal Your Dream: A Personal Development Challenge. Here’s my addition:

November 18, 2007

Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity – The Onion

Study Finds Working At Work Improves Productivity (a humorous piece from The Onion – careful – it contains a bad word).

November 17, 2007

Latest Guest Appearance on ‘Money Sense’ Radio Show

Guest spot appearance on ‘Money Sense’ radio show with host Karen Ellenbecker. This can be heard in the greater Milwaukee area Saturday, November 17th for

November 16, 2007

Fulfillment: The Power of Volunteering

Recently, there has been an upsurge in volunteering in the U.S. There’s also been a lot of talk about volunteers and volunteering. People are spending more time doing volunteer activities and thinking about volunteering.

Why would you want to spend your time doing things for someone else, when there are so many really good things you need to do for yourself and people you care about? When you have to work forty hours a week, or more, just to make your end meet your other end? Why on earth would you want to do more work?

November 16, 2007

Change: Doing One Thing Different

“If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.” This is an old saw that never ceases to be true. Recovery programs use it a lot, and I like it because it is so very true.
Some people feel that if they’re going to make a change, they have to change everything.

November 15, 2007

Who Else Wants to Live FOR NOW and FOR LATER?

I’ve been thinking lately about a candy I used to get as a kid. It was called “Now & Laters,” and the little jingle was, “Have some now, save some for later.” It was actually a pretty dumb jingle, as I recall. But the idea has been rolling around in my head because I’ve been thinking about the conflicting messages we sometimes get.

November 14, 2007

Life Balance: Why Following Rules Is Liberating

I’m very big on rules. I don’t always obey the speed limit, and sometimes I ignore the sign that says “please return carts here,” and put them by a curb instead. But other than that, I’m pretty much a rule follower – I conform not only when I have to, but because it’s often the ‘right thing’ to do.

November 13, 2007

Unlearning Helplessness: Take Charge of Your Life

I think we all have a touch of this learned helplessness, in some areas of our lives, and I also think we can overcome this learned helplessness in three very simple steps.

November 12, 2007

Making Time for Your Creative Self

by David Bohl “I’m not creative.” “I don’t have a creative bone in my body.” “As creative as you are, that’s how uncreative I am.”

November 11, 2007

Success: It’s All in the Follow Through

A friend of mine has great ideas, but for many years didn’t have much success with those ideas. People were always saying, “I don’t see how your ideas don’t work out. You have such great ideas.”

My friend’s response was always, “Ideas have never been my problem.”

My friend was not too great at following through. He had good intentions, he tried hard, but somehow once the excitement of a new project wore off, he couldn’t seem to keep going.

Once my friend mastered follow-through, his life took off in directions he could never have imagined.

November 9, 2007

Danny Bonaduce: Life Coach? Not!

Danny Bonaduce, Life Coach will premier on major wireless carriers beginning Monday, November 12th.

Offered by CBS Mobile, the animated program featuring Bonaduce’s voice will air new three-to-five minute episodes every two weeks. “Danny Bonaduce: Life Coach” “will offer satirical life lessons and the results of Bonaduce’s counsel.”

November 8, 2007

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DAVID B. BOHL

Relinquishee, Adoptee, MPE
Author, Speaker.