Don’t be shy. If there’s something you want to say, trying blogging it. If you’re concerned about how it might affect relationships or your employment, consider blogging under your initials or a pseudonym. Or, test the waters by volunteering to contribute to a site or sites seeking guest bloggers. Let your voice be heard! There [...]
Archive for the ‘Personal Enrichment’ Category
Spread Your Words
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Blog, Blogging, Communication, Feedback, Happiness, Help, Networking, Perspective, Relationships on 2012/05/26 | Leave a Comment »
Boost Your Memory At Work
Posted in Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, tagged Forgetting, Happiness, Health, Home, Journal, Memory, Record, Success, Work on 2012/05/06 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re having trouble remembering things at work, keep a journal with you to record information such as decisions made during a meeting, conclusions from data, or facts affecting a transaction. Then, take time at the end of your day to rewrite and organize what you had recorded earlier. This will help you remember and prioritize [...]
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Bad Days, Bullies, Dating, Failure, Good Days, Happiness, Relationships, Success on 2012/03/15 | Leave a Comment »
Even though you might be having a bad day, remember that you’ll have good days, too.
Noteworthy Site For Realizing Your Dreams: Bucket List Publications
Posted in Entertainment, Noteworthy Sites, Personal Enrichment, Travel, tagged Adventure, Bucket List, Bucket List Publications, Dreams, Entertainment, Excitement, Happiness, Health, Jan Hanson, Lesley Carter, Life, Travel, Wish Fulfillment, Wishes, World on 2012/03/04 | Leave a Comment »
We’re excited about the rapid growth and popularity of the website Bucket List Publications, most notably for the contributions its founders plan to make to the fulfillment of others’ dreams. Bucket List Publications is accomplishing this in a number of a ways. First, by introducing people to and guiding them through a world of adventure. The founding author, [...]
To Get What You Want, Be Forthcoming
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Communication, Dating, Friendship, Gifts, Happiness, Life, Love, Pleasure, Relationships on 2012/03/01 | Leave a Comment »
If you have a partner that historically has not been the most thoughtful gift giver, be honest with the person and provide him guidance on what you want. It’s inequitable to hold a person to expectations that have not been communicated to him. Plus, it will ensure a more satisfying event. Originally published 02 January [...]
Posted in Dating, Personal Enrichment, tagged Dating, Friends, Happiness, Life, Love, Pleasure, Relationship, Valentine on 2012/02/14 | Leave a Comment »
Put work in its place. It’s Valentine’s Day. Go out and enjoy it!
Noteworthy Crowdsource Funding Site: Kickstarter
Posted in Business, Noteworthy Sites, Personal Enrichment, Technology, tagged Crowdsourcing, Financing, Gifts, Innovation, Kickstarter, Publishing, Success, Supermechanical, Twine on 2012/02/12 | 1 Comment »
The crowd sourcing site Kickstarter is a funding platform enabling people to finance the production of an item in exchange for a copy of or other benefit tied to that item. Innovators seeking financing for a project, such as the production of a gadget, but wanting to maintain control over their project can post it on Kickstarter. An innovator sets [...]
Are Your Values Borrowed?
Posted in Family Enrichment, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Children, Faith, Family, Love, Parenting, Values, Work on 2012/02/04 | Leave a Comment »
Often, our aspirations are set by our parents. Our parents communicate what is important, what generates value in their lives, through their actions. Parents who work endless hours for their employers communicate to their children that working endless hours is how one emulates maturity and demonstrates commitment to his employer. Step back. Reassess your values. [...]
Long Term Perspective On Success & Failure
Posted in Business, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Attraction, Business, Failure, Happiness, Love, Marriage, Relationship, Success on 2012/02/03 | Leave a Comment »
Accept that at times you will fail. Likewise, when you do fail, remember that you will experience success again. By the time we retire, we’ll most likely have racked up more failures than successes by nature of living long lives and having the courage to try things. It is the successes – such as marriage, [...]
Your Future You Depends On You
Posted in Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, tagged Business, Fortune, Friends, Happiness, Health, Success, Vitality, Wealth on 2012/01/20 | Leave a Comment »
Sowing seeds for your future isn’t limited to money; it includes the actions you take that affect your long-term interests. Your future you is relying upon the steps the current you is taking in order to realize dreams, vitality, and financial security. Consider what the future you will need, want, or regret having done or [...]
At Times, Arriving Late Can Be An Early Arrival
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Arrival, Courtesy, Employment, Etiquette, Hours, Office, Office Politics, Performance Evaluation on 2011/12/13 | Leave a Comment »
Generally, an exempt employee does not need to arrive to the office early - or even on time - as long as the employee arrives before his boss and his boss’ boss.
Expansive Vocabularies Expand Options
Posted in Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, tagged Diplomacy, Emotions, Success, Vocabulary, Wisdom on 2011/12/09 | Leave a Comment »
Choose your language carefully. In situations requiring diplomacy or affecting emotions, a broad vocabulary can be handy. For example, using the word “disappointed” can go farther than saying you “resent” being overlooked or are “perturbed” by a person’s actions.
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Change, Children & Family, History, Life, Parent, Regrets on 2011/10/10 | Leave a Comment »
If there are things you’d tell your younger self to do differently, why not do those things now?
Own Your Destiny
Posted in Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Behavior, Enrichment, Getting Ahead, Happiness, Health, Perspective, Psychology, Relationship, Results, Success on 2011/09/27 | 1 Comment »
Don’t let people control or affect your decisions through guilt or derision. If the only reason you might change a decision is due to someone else’s negative response, consider the purpose your decision is intended to serve and whether your reason for changing your decision is worth not fulfilling that purpose. For example, if someone’s [...]
Posted in Getting Ahead, Improving Relationships, Personal Enrichment, tagged Enrichment, Fulfillment, Getting Ahead, Happiness, Investment, Life, Love, Relationship on 2011/09/23 | Leave a Comment »
Generally, a fulfilling life requires effort, an investment of time.
Posted in Business, Entertainment, Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, tagged Art, Business, Creativity, Drawing, Entertainment, Ideas, Painting, Performance, Thoughts, Writing on 2011/08/22 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re looking for ideas, surf the net, watch documentaries, listen to talk radio, socialize at a cafe, read enlightening magazines.
Posted in Business, Finances, Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, tagged Acting, Art, Comedy, Criticism, Critics, Entertainment, Performance, Pleasure, Success, Writing on 2011/08/21 | Leave a Comment »
Who cares what the critics say, as long as the money comes in and your audience is pleased?
Reject Earned Sick Days, And You’re Rejecting Compensation
Posted in Finances, Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, tagged Compensation, Earnings, Family Leave, Paid Time Off, Personal Day, PTO, Salary, Sick, Sick Day, Sick Time, Time Off, Vacation, Wage on 2011/08/14 | Leave a Comment »
Sick time and other forms of PTO (paid time off) are part of your compensation. There is nothing wrong with utilizing all of your PTO. Not taking earned time off is akin to handing money back to your employer. Why would you hand back a portion of your pay that had been legally earned? Plus, your colleagues [...]
What’s Your Story?
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Creative Writing, Enrichment, Fiction, Getting Ahead, Happiness, Life, Love, Nonfiction, Perspective, Pleasure, Relationship, Satisfaction, Success on 2011/08/06 | Leave a Comment »
One recommendation for creative writing is to consider a story’s ending, and then determine how to arrive there. We can do the same with our lives. Decide what you want your story to be, identify the steps necessary to get there, then pursue them avidly.
Posted in Natural Remedies, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged Behavior, Control, Effect, Emotion, Enrichment, Happiness, Health, Inspiration, Life, Love, Natural Remedies, Presence, Psychology, Relationship, Religion, Ritual, Spirituality, Success on 2011/07/08 | Leave a Comment »
Rituals create a false sense of control. But, sometimes that’s all that’s necessary to maintain control over one’s corrupting emotions.
Youth Not Wasted
Posted in Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Adage, Aspirations, Axiom, Choices, College, Decisions, Dreams, Education, Enrichment, George Bernard Shaw, Goals, Happiness, Industry, Leadership, Life, Problem Solving, Regret, Riches, Success, Waste, Wishes, Young, Youth on 2011/06/30 | Leave a Comment »
The fallacy of the adage “youth is wasted on the young” is that there is insufficient time to realize every aspiration. Time is only wasted by those whom can leave the sofa but never do.
Your Public Image
Posted in Beauty, Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, Politics, tagged Image, Libel, Photographs, Pics, Pictures, Reputation, Rumor, Satire, Slander on 2011/06/18 | Leave a Comment »
To the extent possible, maintain control of your image. Once in the public sphere, there’s no telling and little stopping how your image will be used.
A Comparison That Creates Waste
Posted in Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, tagged Achievement, Affirmation, Benchmark, Comparison, Debilitating, Limitations, Measurements, Measures, Success on 2011/06/03 | Leave a Comment »
In general, comparing yourself to others is a poor way to measure your success. In can be limiting and debilitating. There’s any number of things that can affect where a person ends up. Similar to commuting to work, any one item can change the result: an accident, a holiday, a sporting event, road work. Likewise, wealth, [...]
Posted in Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Ability, Disability, Enrichment, Getting Ahead, Happiness, Hope, Life, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Perspective, Philosophy, Pleasure, Psychology, Stephen Hawking, Success, Try on 2011/05/30 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t worry about the things you can’t do; worry about the things you can do but don’t. “While there’s life, there is hope.” – Stephen Hawking
Virtual Vacation
Posted in Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Body, Getting Ahead, Happiness, Health, Refresh, Rejuvenating, Unwind, Vacation on 2011/05/24 | Leave a Comment »
Give yourself a virtual vacation by carving out time occasionally to do something you enjoy, such as a quick hike in the woods, an extra 15 minutes to sleep in, dining out with a friend, or eating a box of chocolates in front of the TV, during hectic or stressful times. Bodies and minds both need time to unwind, [...]
What Does Infrastructure Say About Your Community?
Posted in Business, Family Enrichment, Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, Politics, Psychology, Travel, tagged Bridges, Community, Cronyism, Decay, Development, Ethics, Ethos, Getting Ahead, Goals, Government, Happiness, Infrastructure, Investment, Job Search, Jobs, Law, Moving, Nepotism, Politics, Psychology, Relocating, Roads on 2011/05/23 | Leave a Comment »
If you want an idea of what a community is like, take a look at its infrastructure. The condition of bridges, roads, and other public resources reflects a community’s ethos: it’s priorities, whether the culture is collaborative, the extent to which it is egalitarian – rewarding people based on merit rather than privilege or status, and [...]
Finding Exercise & Motivation In The Boonies
Posted in Beauty, Finances, Personal Enrichment, tagged Boondocks, Boonies, Exercise, Get In Shape, Gym, Happiness, Health, Health Club, Neighbor, Physical Exercise, Physical Health, Workout on 2011/05/11 | Leave a Comment »
If you live in an underdeveloped or developing area without health clubs, you can form an informal health club with your neighbors. There are different forms the club could take. For example, you and your neighbors can plan to meet at a certain time regularly to work out. You can agree to rotate locations and [...]
Finding Answers By Leaping
Posted in Business, Education, Getting Ahead, Manage Successfully, Personal Enrichment, tagged Business, Getting Ahead, Invention, Outside The Box, Problem Solving, Solution, Spinning Wheels, Take A Leap on 2011/05/09 | Leave a Comment »
Stuck in a rut while trying to find a solution? Break yourself from it by leaping well outside the box. Think of the unimaginable and unrealistic, then work your way backwards. If you’ve been spinning your wheels, you have nothing to lose by spending time outside the box, and lots to gain.
Posted in Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Dreams, Goals, Hope, Imagination, Perseverance, Persistence, Success on 2011/05/02 | Leave a Comment »
Rather than give up hope, reimagine your dreams.
Posted in Personal Enrichment, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged Apocalypse, Cataclysm, Doomsday, End, Faith, Happiness, Harold Camping, Last Day, Life, Love, May 21, Pleasure, Prophesy, Psychology, Religion, Spirituality on 2011/04/27 | Leave a Comment »
Living every day as though it is your last deprives you of your future.
Creating Your Health Records
Posted in Beauty, Family Enrichment, Natural Remedies, Personal Enrichment, Things Better Off Said, tagged Age, Children, Children & Family, Foresight, Happiness, Healing, Health, Health Record, Life, Maintenance, Medical, Medical Records, Medicine, Natural Remedies, Records, Youth on 2011/04/25 | Leave a Comment »
Maintain a record of your illnesses, and a record for each of your children. Concussions, headaches, dizziness, bloody noses, colds, infections, allergic responses, wounds, and other symptoms and sources of illnesses. They can track patterns or pinpoint causes. One never knows when such records will come in handy. If you’re in a medical emergency; if your children might need [...]
Move Out Of Your Way
Posted in Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Accomplish, Achieve, Angela's Ashes, Britain's Got Talent, Dreams, Enrichment, Fear, Frank McCourt, Getting Ahead, Goal, Happiness, Harry Potter, Health, J. K. Rowling, Life, Love, Pleasure, Psychology, Singing, Success, Susan Boyle, Writing on 2011/04/23 | Leave a Comment »
Don’t let yourself be immobilized by fear or feeling of lack of accomplishment. The only way to accomplish something is to step towards that accomplishment. Don’t be discouraged by your age or adversity. As Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes, J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, Susan Boyle, a singer that placed second on Britain’s Got Talent [...]
Take Care Of The Ones You Love
Posted in Family Enrichment, Improving Relationships, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, Things Better Off Said, tagged Children & Family, Dr. Mark Lachs, Dr. Oz, Friends, Friendship, Happiness, Health, Life, Longevity, Love, Mehmet Oz, Partner, Relationship, Spouse on 2011/04/18 | 1 Comment »
It’s nearly indisputable that the way we approach and live our lives impact our longevity. Numerous studies have shown a correlation between positive outlooks, an ability to adapt to stress, and longevity. Likewise, numerous studies have shown that negative responses to stress and feelings of low self-worth can negatively impact our health and longevity. It’s [...]
…Makes The Whole World Blind
Posted in Personal Enrichment, Politics, Spirituality, tagged Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Conflict, Crime, Deuteronomy 19:16-21, Equality, Equity, Eye For An Eye, Gandhi, Justice, Leviticus 24:19–21, Liberty, Life, Love, Mahatma, Mohandas Gandhi, Peace, Philosophy, Politics, Protest, Quotes, Religion, Revenge, Vengeance on 2011/04/10 | Leave a Comment »
An eye for an eye levels you to the victimizer’s plane. Is the emotional satisfaction worth assuming the victimizer’s mantle?
Who Defined Whom?
Posted in Getting Ahead, Improving Relationships, Personal Enrichment, Politics, Psychology, tagged Behavior, Bullies, Demands, Getting Ahead, Happiness, Office Politics, Opinions, Politics, Principles, Psychology, Relationship, Respect, Value, Workplace Bullies, Workplace Conflict on 2011/04/09 | Leave a Comment »
You don’t gain respect from people whom constantly demand you appease them by predictably obliging at your expense. If you want people to value your opinions and contributions, you must demonstrate that you have opinions and contributions by which you abide. For what do you stand? Do your principle goal posts move each time they are pushed? If [...]
Surprise! Your Company Might Have An Ergonomics Team.
Posted in Getting Ahead, Manage Successfully, Natural Remedies, Personal Enrichment, tagged Back Pain, Chair, Chairs, Division of Occupational Health & Safety, DOHS, Ergonomics, Getting Ahead, Happiness, Health, Natural Remedies, Office Chairs, OSHA, Pain, Pain Relief, Posture, Productivity, Solutions, Successful Management, Wellbeing, Work, Work Environment on 2011/04/07 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re having trouble with back pain or other aches after a day in the office or by the end of the week, it could be due to poor ergonomics within your workspace. Many large companies have an ergonomics team on staff or call. As such, if you’re worried about the pain, ask your company [...]
Using Visualization To Achieve Success At Work
Posted in Getting Ahead, Interview, Manage Successfully, Personal Enrichment, tagged Advancement, Aspirations, Basketball, Behavior, Career Advancement, Career Growth, Confidence, Employment, Getting Ahead, Golf, Interview, Job Search, Jobs, Networking, Office Politics, Performance, Promotion, Raise, Results, Study, Success, Successful Management, Visualization, Visualize on 2011/04/01 | Leave a Comment »
If you feel there is something within your control that is preventing you from achieving success, try picturing yourself without the inhibitors. Visualize yourself as you’d like to be. Studies have shown that people can use visualization to achieve certain forms of success, such as improving one’s ability to shoot hoops, play golf, give a speech, or take [...]
Communicating What You Think
Posted in Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Communication, Grammar, Language, Thoughts, Writing on 2011/03/31 | Leave a Comment »
There’s no need to tell someone you “think” something when you’re telling that person what you think. That’s redundant. For example, when you’re communicating that something works best, there’s no need to tell the person, “I think this works best.” It’s apparent that you think it works best by telling the person, “This works best.”
Posted in Family Enrichment, Improving Relationships, Personal Enrichment, Tales & Curses, tagged Axiom, Humor, Joke, Language, Laughter, Liar, Lie, Truth on 2011/03/29 | Leave a Comment »
A common axiom is that there’s always some truth to a joke. But, there’s almost always some lie in a joke, as well. Greater value is achieved by distinguishing the lie than by identifying the truth.
Lessons In A Crisis: Sacrifice
Posted in Personal Enrichment, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged 9/11, Behavior, BP, BP Oil Spill, Crisis, Daiichi, Disaster, Dispersants, Earthquake, Fukushima, Fukushima 50, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, Health, Japan, Nippon, Nuclear, Nuclear Disaster, Nuclear Power, Psychology, Sacrifice, Tsunami on 2011/03/19 | Leave a Comment »
Another take-away from the crisis of Japan is having the grace to put the welfare of one’s family and community before one’s self when a difference can be made. The tradition of sacrificing oneself for the good of the group is deeply ingrained within the Japanese culture. As such, it is not surprising to those familiar with [...]
Lessons In A Crisis: Keep Your Cool
Posted in House Matters, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Behavior, Crisis, Daiichi, Disaster, Do the Right Thing, Earthquake, Fukushima, Health, Japan, Nippon, Nuclear, Nuclear Disaster, Nuclear Power, Psychology, Spike Lee, Tsunami on 2011/03/19 | Leave a Comment »
A lesson from the crisis in Japan is not to lose your cool in a disaster. If a person loses his head, he reduces his ability to help himself for several reasons. First, the person can be viewing the situation through blinders obscuring potential solutions. Second, people are generally less responsive to a person acting [...]
If Injured, Your Interests Must Come Before Your Employer’s
Posted in Beauty, Getting Ahead, Natural Remedies, Personal Enrichment, tagged Athletes, Behavior, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, CTE, Division of Occupational Health & Safety, Exercise, Football, Healing, Health, Hockey, Injury, Interests, Jobs, Martial Arts, Office Politics, OSHA, Physical Health, Priorities, Recovery, Regret, Soccer, Sports, Sports Injuries, Stress, Trauma, Traumatic Brain Injury, Work, Workers Compensation, Workplace, Workplace Injury, Wrestling on 2011/03/16 | 2 Comments »
If you’re recovering from an injury, don’t push yourself to work or stress the injury before it is fully recovered. In general, the best time to recover from an injury – to realize the most complete recovery possible – is immediately after the injury occurs. Trying to work through an injury could aggravate the injury [...]
Nothing To Fear But Our Imaginations
Posted in Dating, Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Axiom, Behavior, Business, Dating, Enrichment, Fear, Franklin Roosevelt, Happiness, Imagination, Irrational, Love, Paranoia, Perspective, Pres Roosevelt, Problem Solving, Psychology, Quotes, Rational on 2011/03/13 | Leave a Comment »
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” (President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his 1933 inaugural address.) We fear because we have imagination – we imagine what can happen to us. Without that, what or why would we fear? For example, why do most people fear heights? Because they imagine themselves falling. (Even though the source of fear is our imagination, [...]
Help Dies In A Vacuum
Posted in Personal Enrichment, Psychology, tagged Abuse, Addiction, Behavior, Emotional Security, Fear, Health, Help, Intervention, Life, Psychology, Rescue, Safety, Save, Security on 2011/03/12 | Leave a Comment »
If you want someone to save you, you must be willing to save yourself. Two TPLL contributors invested several years and thousands of dollars trying to help a person who claimed to fear for her life in an abusive relationship. Yet, each time the contributors stepped up to the plate to help her – taking [...]
Posted in Dating, Lessons From Divorce, Personal Enrichment, tagged Attraction, Axiom, Dating, Friends, Friendship, Happiness, Love, Marriage, Matchmaker, Pleasure on 2011/02/28 | Leave a Comment »
Old matchmaker’s axiom: To ensure a lifetime of happiness and satisfaction, marry a person that loves you more than you do him.
Making An Investment Out Of Time
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Accomplishment, Achievement, Busy, Enrichment, Finding Time, Goals, Happiness, Hobbies, Invest, Investment, Pleasure, Results, Schedule, Tasks, Time on 2011/02/20 | Leave a Comment »
If there’s something you want to accomplish but feel you don’t have the time, carve out the time. Set aside time each day, week, month or other period in which you dedicate that time to accomplishing the task – and honor that commitment. Often, achieving our goals requires such commitments. By dedicating time to the task [...]
In The End, Which Regret Would You Prefer To Accumulate?
Posted in Family Enrichment, Improving Relationships, Lessons From Divorce, Personal Enrichment, Things Better Off Said, tagged Accumulation, Age, Cheer, Children & Family, Enrichment, Friends, Friendship, Fulfilled Life, Fulfillment, Happiness, Health, Holidays, Hope, Intent, Life, Love, New Year, Pleasure, Regrets, Relationship, Unfulfilled, Unfulfilled Life, Youth on 2010/12/31 | Leave a Comment »
Accumulating regrets is inevitable. When the hope and intent was not to hurt anyone, regrets about what you have done suggest you have lived a good life. Regrets of things you have not done suggest an unfulfilled life. In the end, which type of regret would you prefer to accumulate? May you find wonder and reward in each [...]
Keep A Record
Posted in Finances, House Matters, Personal Enrichment, tagged Behavior, Colleagues, Contributions, Donations, Friends, Gifts, Going Crazy, Habits, Happiness, Loans, Memory, Problem Solving, Relationship, Self Improvement, Tips on 2010/12/20 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re like us, you’ll occasionally forget where you placed an item. The habit two TPLL contributors plan to adopt may reduce the frequency of such occurrences experienced in the future. Recently, the two contributors were unable to locate a valuable collectible they planned to donate. The couple could not remember if they had loaned it to [...]
Do Not Apologize For Rejecting A Request
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Apology, Connect, Facebook, Invitation, LinkedIn, Networking, Reject, Rejection on 2010/11/17 | Leave a Comment »
There’s no need to apologize for rejecting requests or favors. If someone you don’t like or know invites you to connect through LinkedIn or Facebook, it’s absolutely okay to decline the invitation without making excuses.
Try To Find The Positive In A Negative Situation
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Dating, Employment, Enrichment, Friendship, Happiness, Lay Off, Life, Love, Perspective on 2010/11/16 | Leave a Comment »
To ease the pain of difficult situations, try to find an upside to the situation. If you’ve lost your job, an upside might be that you no longer have to work in a stress-filled environment; or that you have more free time to focus on other things; or that you might find your next role more [...]
Success Requires Risk
Posted in Business, Dating, Getting Ahead, Improving Relationships, Personal Enrichment, tagged Business, Dating, Job Search, Life, Networking, Relationship, Risk, Success on 2010/11/15 | Leave a Comment »
Success requires accepting risk and not being embarrassed by the chances you take. It means caring about the quality of your actions, but not obsessing over what others think of your actions. It also means being conscientious of your audience and how your actions affect others. For example, calling 911 for a date might attract loonies, but [...]
Youth Is Wasted On The Young?
Posted in Family Enrichment, Personal Enrichment, Tales & Curses, tagged Choices, College, Decisions, Dreams, Education, Enrichment, George Bernard Shaw, Goals, Happiness, Industry, Life, Problem Solving, Regret, Wishes, Young, Youth on 2010/10/31 | 1 Comment »
The adage “youth is wasted on the young” (from George Bernard Shaw) raises two issues. (1) Often, it is driven by adult regrets and a presumption that the person has reached a stage in life where it is too late to change things (the feeling of irreversability being the issue). (2) If we truly feel this way, what actions are [...]
Site Of The Week: Body & Mind Balance
Posted in Natural Remedies, Noteworthy Sites, Penny Recipes, Personal Enrichment, tagged Aromatherapy, Balance, Energy, Enrichment, Grace, Happiness, Health, Joy, Life, Natural Remedies, Pleasure, Respect, Self Definition, Site of the Week, Youth on 2010/10/22 | Leave a Comment »
Living up to its name, Body & Mind Balance provides insights on various routes to enriching one’s life. Check out the 10/14/10 post on chasing away the winter blues, introducing greater pleasure and joy into the winter months; and the 8/27/10 post on guiding adolescents towards self-defintion.
Put Your Ideas To Work
Posted in Business, Education, Enrichment, Personal Enrichment, tagged Business, Business Development, Ideas, Industry, Ingenuity, Innovation, Invention, Investment, Life, Networking, Problem Solving on 2010/10/15 | Leave a Comment »
Put your ideas to work. Little by little, give them a chance. Even if you think realizing your concept might be challenging or that someone else might have come up with the concept, you never know what might happen as a result of trying to realize your idea. It could lead to new connections, business opportunities, an invention, [...]
Site Of The Week: Running To Slow Things Down
Posted in Noteworthy Sites, Personal Enrichment, tagged Cat, Cooking, Cooks, Enrichment, Happiness, Insights, Life, Life Enrichment, Life Lessons, Perspective, Photos, Pleasure, Recipes, Site of the Week on 2010/10/08 | Leave a Comment »
Running To Slow Things Down offers a delightful blend of personal insights, delicious and inventive recipes and beautiful pictures. Check out the 10/7/10 post on enriching one’s life from a (a cat’s) life lessons! 5/4/11 Update: The site has moved to The Flying ONION.
Tool For Making Consequential Decisions
Posted in Business, Dating, Family Enrichment, Finances, Getting Ahead, House Matters, Improving Relationships, Job Search, Lessons From Divorce, Manage Successfully, Personal Enrichment, Resignation Tips, tagged Decision Making, Decisions, Goals, Guidance, Life, Making Decisions, Priorities, Problem Solving, Resign, Resignation, Successful Management, What to do? on 2010/09/24 | Leave a Comment »
Trying to make a big decision, such as leaving a job or buying a house? The following steps might aid in making the decision. Identify your goals and priorities. To the extent possible, establish measurements for these two items. Identify why you want to make the decision. What are the differences achieved by the decision? [...]
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Affirmation, Mindset, Perspective, Youth on 2010/08/29 | Leave a Comment »
Never stop thinking of yourself as being young.
Creating Value With Your Communication
Posted in Getting Ahead, Improving Relationships, Personal Enrichment, tagged Communication, Employment, Etiquette, Office Politics on 2010/08/26 | Leave a Comment »
Be judicious regarding who you copy on emails. If someone doesn’t need to be copied on the email, don’t copy that person. Unless the email contains something funny, it’ll frustrate most people in a professional environment to be needlessly copied on emails. People will value your communication more if it tends to be pertinent and relevant.
“Life Is Not Black & White”
Posted in Personal Enrichment, Tales & Curses, tagged Enrichment, Life on 2010/08/22 | Leave a Comment »
Nor is it grey. Don’t make it that way. Appreciate the colors.
Posted in Family Enrichment, Personal Enrichment, tagged Employment, Enrichment, Jobs, Life, Office Politics on 2010/08/20 | Leave a Comment »
Except when it is required to be performed at home, leave work at the office!
Stay Active During Your Job Search
Posted in Job Search, Networking, Personal Enrichment, tagged Employment, Job Search, Jobs, Networking, Relationship on 2010/08/19 | Leave a Comment »
Stay active during your search. It might lead to opportunities for future positions. For opportunities to network within your industry, look for free CPE courses or industry events. For inexpensive or free community or leisure activities, check out or join sites such as Meetup, Groupon and Living Social. http://www.meetup.com/ http://www.groupon.com/ http://livingsocial.com/about
That One Thing
Posted in Personal Enrichment, tagged Enrichment, Life on 2010/08/15 | Leave a Comment »
To enrich your life, identify one thing you aspire to accomplish that will require risk and substantial involvement. Set your goal to accomplish it and then prioritize it. What activities should it take precedence over? Before or after obtaining a professional license? Before or after community work? Then, focus time not dedicated to higher priority items on accomplishing [...]
Step Aside, Dreamer
Posted in Business, Getting Ahead, Improving Relationships, Manage Successfully, Personal Enrichment, tagged Business on 2010/08/14 | Leave a Comment »
If you have a hot business idea, do not involve others until you’ve fully developed the business plan. Nobody wants their time wasted by perpetual and habitual dreamers. You’re more likely to be taken seriously if you approach people with a fully thought out and researched business plan.
Posted in Getting Ahead, Personal Enrichment on 2010/08/09 | Leave a Comment »
Your name is a brand; take care to protect it.
Mind Your “I’s” & “Me’s”!
Posted in Getting Ahead, Job Search, Manage Successfully, Personal Enrichment on 2010/08/03 | Leave a Comment »
Spelling and grammar are very important in professional communications, especially during the interview process. Not following simple rules, such as when to use “I” versus “me” or using “get” to mean everything thing from “understand” to “obtain,” may communicate poor education or laziness.
Welcome Invitations
Posted in Getting Ahead, Improving Relationships, Personal Enrichment on 2010/08/01 | Leave a Comment »
Accept every invitation you can, whether it is an invitation to join a workgroup for pizza, a former colleague for happy hour, a neighbor’s pool party or a friend to an exhibit. You never know what opportunity might arise from developing and maintaining your connections. Often, accepting invitations lead to an increased number of future invitations.
Speaking of…. Operator?
Posted in Getting Ahead, Improving Relationships, Manage Successfully, Personal Enrichment, References on 2010/07/29 | Leave a Comment »
Do not speak for a person with whom you are not closely acquainted, or even suggest how that person might think or respond, unless you have conferred with that person in regards to the subject matter or been authorized to speak on behalf of that person. Not projecting such authority or knowledge will reduce the chance of misunderstandings and opportunities [...]
Breaking Patterns
Posted in Family Enrichment, Improving Relationships, Personal Enrichment on 2010/07/26 | 1 Comment »
Stuck in the same frustrating pattern of communication with a family member, such as a child, spouse or parent? You can’t change a person, but, you can affect their response by changing your approach. Identify the pattern you’d like to break. What are the typical responses by those involved? What is the stimuli driving those [...]
Recognizing The Inspiration For Our Aspirations
Posted in Personal Enrichment, Politics, Spirituality on 2010/07/25 | Leave a Comment »
Who do you most aspire to be like? What is it about those people that you aspire to emulate? Most likely, you’ll find that it’s not because of a position they held, but, the contributions they made to their family, community and society that you value. Are you striving to emulate their actions, or the positions [...]
Valuing A Role Over Contributions May Defeat Goals
Posted in Personal Enrichment, Politics on 2010/07/25 | Leave a Comment »
If you had an opportunity to improve things for you, your descendants and your constituents, but, discarded it on the off – and unlikely – chance that you might be able to keep your job by turning your back on the opportunity, will you regret not optimizing the advantage once you lose your job? Or, [...]
