Be Careful What You Wish For – Part 3: Quotes
Some examples of quotes that remind you to “be careful what you wish for,” are: Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit and the greatest peril
July 11, 2007
Be Careful What You Wish For – Part 2: Overcoming Pride to Find Happiness
What could someone say to you, if you are working an exhausting, career inspired, trying to reach the top of the ladder kind of life,
July 10, 2007
Be Careful What You Wish For – Part 1: Losing Sight of What’s Important
OK, there’s something that you really, really want. You’re absolutely yearning for it with all of your soul and being. All you can think about is how much you want it. You ache for it and hunger for it. You become obsessed with it. You spend all of your waking hours thinking about it – consciously and subconsciously – and how to attain it. It consumes you.
You disregard your health – your diet, your sleep, your recreation, your personal time, your intellectual and creative nourishment. You rationalize that the things you’re doing in pursuit of this dream are for the good of all those involved in your life, yet you ignore them, erecting a wall between you and your partner, family, children, friends, and colleagues. Worse yet, you treat them in ways that leave in your wake a sea of emotional turmoil.
July 9, 2007
Predicting Happiness
Harvard Professor Daniel Gilbert, University of Virginia psychologist Tim Wilson, Carnegie-Mellon economist George Loewenstein, and Princeton Psychologist Dan Kahneman have been studying the question: “What
July 3, 2007
The Current State of the Work-Life Balance Battle
Many offices and corporations are offering several things in order to “make things easier for the employee.” In the article “Keeping Work and Life In
July 2, 2007
Your Own Variation on a Work Life Balance Theme
by David Bohl Earlier this month in my newsletter I touched upon the topic of creating a strategic plan for life – the way you
June 29, 2007
Stress and Happiness
There are good kinds of stress and there are bad kinds of stress. Negative stress can even lead to burnout and depression and anxiety. Dr.
June 28, 2007
Some Really, Really Bad Advice
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomburg recently stated, to a graduating class of City University of New York – Staten Island, that in order to
June 25, 2007
Life Balance: Doing the Heavy Lifting Up Front
I recently devoted a few blog posts to the topic of “outsourcing” certain life tasks. Some keyword searches on the term “life balance” had interestingly
June 22, 2007
Happiness and Work
The UK’s Chiumento wrote an article, called “2007 Happiness at Work Index,” and it stated that relationships we have at work have a large impact
June 22, 2007
The Secret to Happiness
Subjective Well-being: an individuals evaluation of their current happiness, this coming from the study “A Global Projection of Subjective Well Being: A Challenge to Positive
June 21, 2007
The Perfect, Fulfilling Day – for Guy Kawasaki and Me
The perfect day as stated by Guy Kawasaki of Treumors, super blogger, managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, columnist of Entrepreneur Magazine and author of
June 20, 2007
My #1 Productivity Tip
After being asked how to be productive, here are a few tips for doing so: find a place (or places) where you are comfortable, and
June 19, 2007
What Would Make Working Fathers Happy?
According to a survey, from CareerBuilders.com, in 2007 37% of fathers would quit their jobs if their partner made enough money to support them and
June 18, 2007
Happy Father’s Day
The idea for Father’s Day came from a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd who was an only daughter of six children, her mother died in
June 15, 2007
The Greatest Generations?
Generation Xers and Yers are being recognized for changing traditional views of the workplace. The new generations of workers are standing up for “The American
June 13, 2007
A Final Word on Workplace Survival
78% of people, who responded to a University of North Carolina survey, as cited in an article titled “Eliminate Workplace Conflict and Improve Productivity,” said
June 12, 2007
Structured Procrastination
The definition of “Structured Procrastination,” as told by John Perry the Professor of Philosophy at Stanford, is: shape the structure of tasks in a way
June 11, 2007
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