Time is the New Currency
by David B. Bohl In today’s frantic world of double income parents and internet/cell phone access that keeps us within easy reach, it seems that
October 26, 2007
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Slow Down FAST Metro Milwaukee
Let’s meet! For those of you in the metropolitan Milwaukee area, here’s where I’ll be on Monday, October 29th, from 10:30 AM to 1:00 PM.
October 26, 2007
Happiness and Fulfillment: Did You Say Go to the Ballet?
I have recently been thinking about the things we don’t do, that we love to do. I know people, for instance, who really enjoy the ballet, and who have ballet companies in or near their city, and yet don’t go to the ballet. Why not? “It’s too expensive.” “I don’t have anyone to go with me.” “I don’t have the time.” “I never think of it.”
I say put it on your calendar, spend the money, go alone, give up doing something you don’t enjoy.
October 26, 2007
Being Who You Are and Who You Want to Be
A wonderful woman I’m familiar with is the absolute essence of New York Society – except that she has spent her entire life living in the South.
But I also find it interesting that someone who so clearly loves both New York, with its theatre scene, and Arkansas, where she has lived most of her life excluding graduate school, has found a balance between the two.
October 25, 2007
What Our Kids Teach us About Life Balance
As my kids have grown, and I’ve been fortunate enough to step away from a brutal workaholic schedule and watch them grow up and become young adults, I’ve really enjoyed learning how children just seem to understand balance, and they can teach it to us when we’re willing to learn.
Of course that’s a big if.
October 24, 2007
It’s All About Passion and Purpose
by David B. Bohl Productivity seems to be the Holy Grail of the twenty-first century. We spend tons of money, and even more time, on
October 23, 2007
Living Around Principles vs. Living In Integrity
After I titled this post “Living Around Principles,” it occurred to me that might sound like I mean living by getting around your principles, shoving them aside and living the life you’d be leading if you didn’t have any principles.
Uh, no. I left the title alone because I wanted to go ahead and bring up that idea, and then talk about why it doesn’t work and what I really meant.
Getting around your principles will not create the kind of life you want.
October 23, 2007
Experiencing Life: I’m a Rubbernecker
Have you ever driven past an accident scene and craned your neck to see what happened? In life, I’m a rubbernecker. I want to know and do everything. I want to be as informed and active in life as possible.
October 22, 2007
Time is Money: Strategic Lifestyle Planning and Return on Investment
by David Bohl I have always advocated that people should create Strategic Lifestyle Plans for themselves. What is a strategic lifestyle plan? Very much like
October 19, 2007
Personal Fulfillment: Why Hobbies Matter
In my previous life, before I threw up my hands (and my career as a financial trader), moved to Wisconsin and started living a life I truly enjoyed, I didn’t have time for a hobby. I was like the guy in the recent New Yorker cartoon lying on the beach with his laptop. He says to his wife, “It’s not that I’m a workaholic. I just work to relax.”
If anyone had asked me if I had a hobby I would probably have said, “Yeah, I work. That’s how I spend my free time.” Well, as you probably agree, working between eighty and one hundred hours every week is not exactly conducive to having a hobby, and no, I don’t think working really counts as a hobby.
October 19, 2007
Mastering the Art of Living: Happiness, Success, and Fulfillment
I have been giving some thought to what it means to be a master of life. I think “mastering” life breaks down into four areas, and I want to give some attention to each of these areas. I hope that people will think and talk about these ideas. We can all benefit from discussing what it takes to live the life we want, and these are some areas I think are really important.
October 18, 2007
The Evolution of Dad Column: My #1 Life’s Lesson
I was recently asked by Dana Glazer, Director of The Evolution of Dad (“A Documentary-In-Progress about the Evolving American Father”), to write about something I’ve learned through my experience as a father.
Dana has graciously included this in his blog The Evolution of Dad Project.
This really got me thinking, as I’ve learned so much throughout my years of making mistakes, correcting them, learning from them, and attempting to change my habits and behavior to create a better life for myself and those around me.
October 17, 2007
Happiness or Fulfillment
by David Bohl We often hear someone say they’re “happy and fulfilled” at a new job, with a new living situation, even as a new
October 16, 2007
Your Beliefs and Values: Compassion is a Verb
I love the saying that love is a verb. I believe it’s true, first of all, and I think there’s something very powerful about a phrase that almost everyone seems to recognize or remember hearing.
Lately I’ve been thinking about compassion, and I wondered if it could be a verb.
October 16, 2007
Achievement: Chasing the Big Score
o you spend a lot of time chasing the next big deal, the next big success? Some people call it the Big Score. You probably know exactly what I’m talking about when I say ‘Big Score’ because most of the movies these days are about some big score – some big challenge.
In real life, as opposed to movies, many of us are always chasing the next big score, but in reality most of us don’t catch it. I spent years as a financial trader, working ridiculous hours and, admittedly, making ridiculous money. But I was always living in the future. It was always going to be different and better. I was always going to get what I wanted when I got “there.”
October 15, 2007
Why Money Can Sometimes Buy Happiness
by David B. Bohl We’ve all been told since we were small children that money can’t buy happiness. And many of us rely on this
October 12, 2007
Are You Addicted to Sugar and Caffeine?
When you think of addictions you probably think of alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc. But sugar and caffeine can be habit-forming in their own rights, although to not as strong a degree and not in such a strong physical way.
October 12, 2007
A Messy Desk is the Sign of a Messy Desk
I was amused recently to see that one of the major office supply stores now carries not only filing supplies but also, believe it or not, “piling” supplies. These consist mainly of plastic envelopes and folders where you can put everything regarding one project together and leave them on your desk. I haven’t talked to anyone who uses them, but I find it interesting that someone is finally noticing that we don’t always even want to keep our desks clear.
October 11, 2007
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