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Esther Smith


Member Since: 25th August 2005
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03rd August 2007

Networking is a Contact Sport

New York has always been a career-oriented city. If one does not have a career, they will make one up rather than apologize for being a housewife, or home-maker. It's only because I had a wonderful New York socialite for a mother-in-law that I ran smack ...

31st July 2007

Pink Slip Billionaires

Some will call this FATE, supposedly making these events inevitable -- no argument offered. Here are some names you might recognize who were canned, laid off, or otherwise given the boot. They have joined the Pink-Slip Billionaires because instead of find...

25th July 2007

The Net's New Information Highway

For more years than I care to admit, I have depended on either word-of-mouth, catchy ads or Search Engine results to draw me into a new program. I have stopped reading Testimonials altogether because his or her success (real or embellished) is no guarante...

31st August 2006

The Monotony of Monogamy

Suffice to say we all want many things in life and any spouse we choose can offer only some of them. If we can't be content with what we have vowed to keep, then we should at least realize that simply trading that person in for a poacher idling somewhere...

23rd July 2006

Trapped On The Treadmill: Work-Life Balance

Workers suffering burnout are making mistakes. It's depressingly predictable: these mistakes cost money, compromise safety and may even put lives at risk. Work-life balance is a subject with broad points of view but Corporate America is finally respond...

25th June 2006

Top Stress Reducers Are Dogs

Stress-related illnesses are at an all time high in America, and there is no sign it will lessen. For the most part, doctors have identified the basic cause of this to be our "seriousness". By that they mean taking ourselves too seriously, thus causing ...

20th June 2006

Learn To Paint Like A Child

All children love to draw or paint. It matters little whether the result is an exact copy of reality because at that very moment reality is in the mind of the artist. As they draw they are creators and each will stand back to admire what they have accompl...

22nd November 2005

The Offer's On The Table

In twentieth century America while young boys learned construction with Lincoln Logs, little girls instinctively cuddled a Raggedy Ann. Even today Raggedy Ann's red yarn hair, patched pinafore and button eyes offer images of another era as she celebrates...

11th November 2005

Entrepreneur: The Last Free American

Along the highway in Dan Diego there is a billboard that quite simply asks in big black letters – Had Enough? I have no idea whether the person or company that owns the advertisement sells cruise vacations or a better brand of Vodka, but you have to admi...

28th October 2005

The Somewhat Interested Prospect

Some smarty coined the phase that in sales, "everything is fair game". Actually it's quite unfair; tilting unfairly in your favor or someone else's. So – are you going to play the game to win? If you are here's your first lesson: winning this gam...

31st August 2005

Leave It All to Have It All

The US is in the middle of a serious workforce change. Home-based businesses are now recognized as a viable source of new jobs. If it continues as expected, "the new American workplace" will be located in the spare bedroom or converted garage. It's no ...