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Published March 18th, 2008
Happy people used to annoy me. I was so busy and stressed that they sometimes got on my nerves because I didn’t really believe they could be so content: I thought maybe they were on happy drugs… or perhaps they lived in an alternate universe…at the time, I guess I just didn’t understand. When you’re upset, people around you try to help by […]
Published March 2nd, 2008
This is one of those posts I have spent countless hours on and re-written 3 times. Why? It’s a difficult subject to write about; not because it scares me, but because it scares everyone else–and it shouldn’t. I think for many people the word “risk” has many negative connotations. One automatically thinks that taking a risk can […]
Published February 13th, 2008
The idea for this post came up over a series of conversations between us and some of our closest friends. We’re all in our early 30s now, and have been out on our own for at least 10 years. As we moved well into adulthood, and faced some of life’s challenges, we realized that we were […]
Published February 11th, 2008
Imagine you looked on your commercial calendar and there was no little caption about Valentine’s Day on February 14th–what would you do? Nothing? Would you forget, and receive angry and hurt looks from your significant other? What if, instead, you lived your life making the other person feel special every single day?
I think that sometimes there’s a lot of […]
Published January 26th, 2008
Within the last 10 years, I have heard that people change careers an average of 3 times during their working life. Gone are the days of working for one company for 25+ years. I’m not surprised. I also wouldn’t be surprised to find out that people switch careers or at least jobs more often than that.
Times have changed. […]
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