Archive | August, 2007
Musings from a Broken Vessel
I often wonder how I can feel able to take on the world at one moment and feel like a heap of broken earthen-ware the next. I can walk into a room of the whos who in the business world and commandeer the floor, but two hours later sit alone in my office and not [...]
Continue reading...A Kitchen's Diet
28. August 2007
Interesting statistics from the September 2007 edition of Health magazine: $6,100 Average amount the United States spends on health (per person) each year. $2,700 Average amount spent by the other leading industrialized countries. 31 Percentage of Americans who are obese. 15 Percentage who are obese (on average) in the other industrialized countries. So, it seems safe [...]
Continue reading...Simple Kindnesses
24. August 2007
Have you noticed how rushed people are today? No matter where I go it seems people are always running from one task to another, often late and often on their cell phones. I have nothing against cell phones. I have a Blue Tooth that is attached to my ear every time I go out. However, [...]
Continue reading...Resumes: Getting Noticed
21. August 2007
In a Wall Street Journal article, Special Résumé Looks Can Do Quite a Job at Getting You Noticed, published today, Sarah Needleman points out that recruiters and employers get inundated with hundreds of resumes for each position posted. So, how do you make your resume stand out from the rest? By getting creative. In the story [...]
Continue reading...Life Instructions
17. August 2007
I love quotes simple words by others that inspire me to take time and think and often spur me on to greater things. Here are 10 of my favorite quotes from Lifes Little Instruction Book by H Jackson Brown, Jr. The book has 511 suggestions on how to live a happy and rewarding life. #346 Be bold [...]
Continue reading...Enjoying Life: More than Just Looking For the Good
14. August 2007
This past week we were blessed with having our middle daughter stay with us. Weve missed our older two daughters terribly since we moved to North Carolina and it was wonderful to connect with one of them again. Sarah is 16. She is beautiful, amazingly gifted in many areas and incredibly intelligent. She is [...]
Continue reading...Thankfulness
8. August 2007
Thankfulness is a recurring theme in my posts. Its not a secret that I believe (and have seen evidence in my own life) the more thankful we are the better our quality of life. Its easy to get caught in the ever-perpetuating cycle of self-pity and the muck and mire of Woe is me. Many people [...]
Continue reading...Negotiating a New Position
3. August 2007
Whether you are a man or woman, negotiating salary is similar to asking for a raise/promotion (see yesterdays post). We just dont do it often enough. Job negotiations should not stop when a position is offered. But, all to often, applicants believe an offer is a take it or leave it deal. It is not. Employers [...]
Continue reading...Time to Reframe Our Approach
2. August 2007
A letter from the Founding Editor in Pink magazine (www.pinkmagazine.com) by the above name recently caught my attention. Ive written about our need to reframe our failures and see them as tools for growth. So, I was curious as to what Cynthia Good was referring to in the August.Spetember 2007 issue. In short, Cynthia was saying [...]
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31. August 2007
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