Life, love and getting (amazing) stuff done
From the category archives:
I love ideas.
I love jotting them down like little gems in my pretty, hipster notebook.
“That’s a great idea.” With emphasis on the idea part.
Without something to motive me, the ideas sit, sit, sit like diamonds in the rough.
Lesson learned: Without action, ideas don’t mean much.
One thing I’ve realized since quitting my day job is that [...]
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A reader emailed me to ask: How do you make money now without a day job?
Good question! If all this “giving up your day job” talk is making you drool, the reality is that I still need money to live. I still have bills and pretty things I want to buy. We didn’t win the [...]
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A surprising thing happened when I started down the path to quit my day job.
Instead of leading a less appealing life at work, I felt I actually thrived. My job turned into something more deliberate than delegated.
The confidence I gained knowing my time was temporary let me design a job I enjoyed more than ever [...]
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This is a guest post from Dr. Corey Allan of Simple Marriage.
The chief happiness for a man is to be what he is. ~ Erasmus
How much thought goes into what you do for a living?
Since sleep has lost a great deal of respect in our society, you likely work more than you sleep. With work [...]
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Day jobs are a lot like lovers.
In the beginning, there’s the wooing, the passion, the thrill of something new.
As time passes in a not-right working relationship, passion gets replaced with just making it through another day. You’re paying for parking instead of the other way around. The bathroom isn’t even close to your standards of [...]
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It’s official: I’m quitting my day job. My last day is June 18, 2010.
For those that don’t know, I was an editor and columnist at the Green Bay Press-Gazette. I headed up a women’s magazine (which I’m happy to say I will continue on a freelance basis), family magazine and weekly home section.
It was, some [...]
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As children, we dream of being legendary when we grow up.
An astronaut.
Olympic gymnast.
Figure Skater.
Best-selling novelist.
Things like accounts receiveable clerk, insurance claims agent and receptionist don’t appear. None of those jobs are a bad thing – I’m just pointing out how perceptions and realities change once “real life” sets in – the bills, the routines, the [...]
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Doing work you love comes with a lot of emotions.
Not all are the rainbow, unicorn, sunshine type.
At times, you’ll feel sucked into a mudpit of self doubt and questions, over and over.
Really: What do you know about your Amazing Work?
What makes you think you’ll be the next best selling author, the next Nirvana or Tiffany [...]
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It’s easy to live in an endless state of “when-I-get-there.”
You know the place.
It’s where happiness awaits, just outside your grasp.
It’s retirement.
A promotion.
A new title.
Recognition, a raise, flexible hours.
So lets get to the bottom of it: Where is there?
What are you banking on for the future?
Ask yourself this question:
Will it be worth the wait?
Worth whatever you’re [...]
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Where does Hollywood go when it’s sick of Hollywood? Mexico!
Meet newlyweds Heidi and Mark Rice. In their mid-thirties with no kids, they literally traded their corporate Los Angeles jobs for a tent in Mexico (for a few nights anyways). Why?
Heidi Rice: Some people understand perfectly well why we live here. Puerto Vallarta is warm [...]
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