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Our Visitors Remember the 60s

Our Visitors Remember the 60s

Image via Wikipedia “Hippies, Honeys and Gas Money” John Nix of Spartansburg, South Carolina remembers: During the summer of 1969 I left the first real job I ever undertook and, after incurring my mothers wrath and a lecture on stability, began to look around for something to do that would be car related. Having all the ambition of the typical teenage slacker type did not help my pursuit much as the things that most interested me required...

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Are Retiring Baby Boomers Heading for Satisfying New Careers?

Are Retiring Baby Boomers Heading for Satisfying New Careers?

Dr. Dychtwald Reading and listening to warnings and predictions about the poor prospects retiring baby boomers might soon be facing, I was reminded of an expression I’ve often heard “when one door closes another one opens” sometimes offered to someone who has just suffered some major disappointment such as losing a job or maybe not getting the house or apartment they were hoping to get. With the national economy crisis we are all going through now, the option...

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The Business of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work

The Business of Happiness: 6 Secrets to Extraordinary Success in Life and Work

I really enjoyed reading this book… I had recently watched an episode of C-Span Book TV (http://www.booktv.org/) where two authors discussed Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations and I was amazed at finding out how this man writing a couple centuries ago about what really makes people happy (he was a moral philosopher before being a political economist ) got it right for us today!  My review is coming next… Starting with a list of 101...

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Scared of Losing Your Job?

Scared of Losing Your Job?

Make Money the slacker way! You look for ideas on how to start making money online, you spend money on information products and then you’re confused on the “right” way to use the information… You get distracted by so many offers and the feeling that you never get anything done makes you doubt your ability to ever be successful! You are ready to give up because you don’t think you want to work that hard anyway! Well, these two guys have it figured...

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Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

Reflecting on this speech makes me realize that sometimes what we perceive as bad news. like losing your job, might be a wake-up call… sure the job means the security of paying the rent and all the other bills, but if that is all it really is could this be a good time to examine some other possibilities? If you’ve been thinking about starting a home business this might be a good time… A good...

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