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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...

