Blog

That’s the name of a terrific article in today’s New York Times that discusses how people deal with the shame of being out of work. The best part is the section about how one marketing executive responds to people’s sympathy in an empowered way: “And so by last weekend, merely two days after Bob Adler’s…

Because I’ve been traveling a lot and haven’t been able to post as much, I’ve been saving up some links you might enjoy. Now, in the lull between NYC and California, here is a good one: Chasing Utopia, Family Imagines No Possessions It’s about families who are living super-simple, super-frugal and, in some cases, nomadic…

This cat is all over the Internet, and I’m addicted to her. My favorite comment about this video is, “Someone needs assertiveness training and it’s not the cat!”

1. A Serious Rejection I’ve been a professional writer for decades, and while editors sometimes send my work back for revision, it’s been a long time since a piece was rejected outright. Well, recently it happened, and big time. The rejection itself was cruel – the editor not only critiqued the article itself, but the…

Everyone please watch this 16 minute speech by Clay Shirky , author of Here comes everybody : the power of organizing without organizations. It summarizes what’s revolutionary about the Internet and digital technologies, and how they’re going to change the world. Shirkey’s a great speaker, and this is a very worthwhile investment of 16 of…

This article is by my colleague and friend Linda Marks, founder of the Institute for Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy. Linda is giving a workshop on Healing the Traumatized Heart in Newton, MA, on Saturday, May 18, from 1 – 5 pm. I’ve taken it, and it’s terrific. Click here for more information on the workshop and Linda’s…

I’ve written previously about Randy Pausch , the now-famous Carnegie Mellon computer science professor whose videotaped “Last Lecture” is a hit on the Internet and WHICH YOU ABSOLUTELY SHOULD SEE. Pausch gave his Last Lecture at an unusually young age, 48, because he was dying of pancreatic cancer and had only a few months to…

I really recommend you check out this New York Times article on willpower . Excerpt: “The brain has a limited capacity for self-regulation, so exerting willpower in one area often leads to backsliding in others. The good news, however, is that practice increases willpower capacity, so that in the long run, buying less now may…

http://flickr.com/photos/pshab/422895344 The comments are interesting, too.

As I teach in my Time Management workshops, living frugally is a fundamental success skill. Frugality increases the odds of your getting to live your mission, while spendthriftness increases the odds that you will live beyond your means, go into debt, and never escape from the consumerist treadmill. Frugal people create options and freedoms for…