Some interesting quotes from Steve Jobs about how to live your life. Here are the ones I liked: “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” This […]
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Do you know what you want to do with the rest of your life? No? Well I bet everybody else could tell you what you should do! I’ve got a great career in the computer software field and I’m about to graduate from massage school. I’m getting really tired of people assuming that I should
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I love books so when I stumbled across a blog post about creating your own online used bookstore, I read it and then googled some more and then read some more. Supposedly there are people that scout for books at estate sales, thrift stores and used bookstores and then sell those books online. Sounds kind
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My cousin Kelsi is in the Peace Corps and people have been giving her a hard time that she’s got it easy. She’s really been enjoying the Domican Republic and writing some great stories about the country and the people there. Having been in third world countries and a lot of Carribean countries, I don’t
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This 17 year old plumber torched a $12 million dollar mansion on his first day of work. 60 firefighters couldn’t keep it from burning to the ground. He’s going to have a hard time living that one down! Do you have a worst day ever story to share?
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Pamela from Escape from Cubicle Nation has these five questions she recommends answering to find out what you should do with your life. I answered them for fun and then I debated posting them here as they could be a bit personal but I thought it would be fun to see if you guys can
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As this inventor of a toothpaste squeezer tube says in the NYT: “If you’re not boring the pants off people,†Mr. Robertson said, “you don’t have enough passion.†I’m not sure I’m boring the pants off people but I’ve definitely gotten some strange looks.
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Escape from the Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim has a podcast by Dr. Srikumar Rao, Columbia and London Business Schools, author of Are You Ready to Succeed? My favorite quote was: I don’t have a work life and a personal life. I have one life and either it’s working or it’s not. If you are
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I just read a very thought provoking article, Why Having More No Longer Makes Us Happy by Bill McKibben. The author argues that pursuing more wealth worked well in the past when we didn’t have much material wealth but now that we are a relatively wealthy nation, pursuing more and more wealth is making us
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I sit around and wonder what to do with my life. What’s my purpose in life? And then I read about someone like Irena Sendler. This amazing woman saved the lives of 2500 children! Can you imagine? She helped 2500 Jewish children in Poland find homes with Catholic families so they would escape the concentration
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