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Year 2011 New Direction: Where Do I Go From Here?

Year 2011 New Direction: Where Do I Go From Here?

Image via Wikipedia Happy New Year to all my visitors and to the whole world! I’ve spent most of December involved with family and holiday events.  I have also given a lot of thought to a blog post I wrote after going through Melissa Ingold’s end of the year course that I shared with you on this blog, consisting of a set of six free lessons. The first lesson was about taking your business inventory for...

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Can Reading a Story Inspire Almost Immediate Good Fortune? part 9

Yesterday’s last words: he levels mountains, fills in vales, and travels on an even plane where stumbling is unknown.” Thereafter, I slept again, and, when I awoke, I seemed to be in a different world. The sun was shining and I was conscious that birds twittered above my head. My body, yesterday trembling and uncertain, had become vigorous and filled with energy. I gazed upon the pyramid of casks in amazement that I had so...

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Can Reading a Story Inspire Almost Immediate Good Fortune? part 8

Yesterday’s last words: there was a presence with me intangible to others, I discovered later, but real to me. The Presence was in my likeness, yet it was strikingly unlike. The brow, not more lofty than my own, yet seemed more round and full; the eyes, clear, direct, and filled with purpose, glowed with enthusiasm and resolution; the lips, chin, – ay, the whole contour of face and figure was dominant and determined. He was calm, steadfast,...

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Can Reading a Story Inspire Almost Immediate Good Fortune? part 7

Yesterday’s last words: here might be included the fourth lesson: Seek comrades among the industrious, for those who are idle will sap your energies from you. It was my pleasure at that time to relate, upon slight provocation, the tale of my disasters, and to rail against the men whom I deemed to have wronged me, because they had seen fit not to come to my aid. Moreover, I found childish delight in filching from my...

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Can Reading a Story Inspire Almost Immediate Good Fortune? part 3

yesterday ending words: yes,I replied, bitterly, continued today >>>> “Yes,” I replied, bitterly,”with prospects of being on the town, shortly. But you look as if things were coming your way. Tell me all about it.” “Things have been coming my way, for a fact, and it is all remarkable, when all is said. You know Sturtevant, don’t you? It’s all due to him. I was plumb down on my luck, – thinking of the morgue...

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Working for Yourself … Could you Truly Cut it? part 2

This is part 2 of a 3-part series  about Kevin Riley’s Working for Yourself.pdf a 14 page pdf report listing 19 questions you might ask yourself if you’re considering working at home. Here are questions 7 through 12 - for you to check off  to what degree they might apply to you: Y = “Yes, this is what I’m like.” S = “Somewhat, and I feel I could develop this trait.” N = “No, I’m not like this at all.” Download the...

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Working from Home… can it be Hazardous to Your Health?

When you first start your home business, it’s expected that you’ll  be putting  in  longer hours than the regular 9-5.  There’s no fellow employee or boss to take up the slack. You are the one who has to put in the extra hours… so it’s natural to forget about regular meal times and recreation… letting work take over your life… well,  natural to forget for a period of time… but not as a way of life!  Actually it seems like it would be...

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Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life

Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life

Image via Wikipedia Last Saturday afternoon I watched a special on one of my local PBS stations: KBTC, titled: With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life As a psychologist, gerontologist, documentary filmmaker, entrepreneur and best-selling author of fifteen books on aging-related issues, Dr. Dychtwald has been exploring the implications of the longer age expectations for this boomer generation. He spoke at length about the prospect of rethinking the meaning of success, work, relationships, adulthood...

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12 Ways Boomers can Make Money Online – part 2

Make Money with Service based businesses. Yesterday I introduced the subject of boomers making money at home, this is the first of the 12 ways mentioned: I wrote my title yesterday as Boomers making money online but there a few other ways a person can make money at home after retiring from a fulll-time job and I’ll mention some. Assuming that by the age of 60 a person has learned many skills in a line of work, that...

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12 Ways Boomers Can Make Money Online

Quite a few baby boomers learned how to use computers from their children and then they were mostly interested in using email and maybe searching for information they needed by going to Google or MSN… Ironically, out of my three children, two who are boomers were still at that stage not so long ago but have now progressed beyond the news, sports, videos and games online… I’m slowly roping them in to doing some money-making...

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