There are so many people selling ebooks online and so many of them are just rehashed junk or so common sense that they are nearly useless. It is hard to know who’s offering useful information and who is just peddling trash. Well I’ve found one website selling career guide ebooks (printed copies are available as [...]

Every year I’ve picked New Year resolutions and every year I have failed to keep them. I’ve tried every “strategy” under the sun and nothing has ever made them stick. Changing my routine is difficult for me. Trying new things is difficult for me. And setting one specific day to turn my entire life around [...]

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde  A couple of weeks ago I was talking to my daughter who is in Kindergarten. She was talking about two little classmates who didn’t like her and wouldn’t let her be in their “club”. When I asked her why she couldn’t be in the club [...]

While I don’t advocate watching too much television, there are a few shows I try to never miss even if it means recording them. At the very top of my favorite program list is House starring Hugh Laurie as the witty and damaged Dr. Gregory House. So why is House my number one when there [...]

It seems every few months the media starts talking again about the sleep debt of Americans and the importance of getting enough rest. Well, I think by now that we get it – sleep is important…we need to get enough…it needs to be a priority. As if it were that easy. Not getting the right [...]

I have big dreams. Lots of people have big dreams. Few people ever realize their big dreams. That’s because it is hard work to turns dreams into reality. This task can be made easier by focusing some energy towards turning dreams into goals and then breaking those goals down into baby steps that can then [...]

At one point someone I knew asked my what my trigger was. At the time I didn’t really understand what she meant. Then she explained that everyone has something that sets them off, something they are particularly sensitive to. As an example she pointed out that family members of a handicapped person get upset by [...]

Running your own business is tough, especially during a bad economy. As you watch some of your advertisers cancelling their orders for space and your product sales drying up you may start to thing the self-employment party is over and you just weren’t cut out for working from home. So how do you get through [...]

Think about all the highly successful people you know or have heard about. Can you remember even one of them saying, “I really hate what I do but I knew it was the quickest way to make money?” Probably not. The secret to being successful in life is to find something that you enjoy doing, [...]

Last weekend my husband and I watched the movie “The Bucket List”. I won’t spoil it for anyone but I will say that it was one of the best movies I’ve seen in a while. It wasn’t only very, very funny but it also made you think about what is really important in life and [...]