Archive for August, 2008

29 Aug

Join the discussion on LinkedIn

Yesterday LinkedIn announced an amazing new feature on their site: you can now have discussions within your LinkedIn groups.
It seems like a no-brainer to me, but for a long time LinkedIn groups didn’t have this feature. All you could really do with a group you were a member of is look at the profiles of [...]

28 Aug

Maybe not a 4-hour work week, but not 40 hours either

Yesterday I started reading Timothy Ferriss’ The 4-Hour Workweek. Although I’ve barely cracked the spine, he said something that really got me thinking.
He compared two people: one making $100,000 per year working 80 hours per week vs. one making $50,000 per year but only working ten hours per week. He pointed out it’s not about [...]

27 Aug

Five mistakes I made in the first year of business

Maybe it’s because it’s almost back to school time, but I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting in the past week. I’ve been thinking about what it was like during the first few weeks and months of being in business full time. It was an equally exciting and frightening time.
I had a business and marketing [...]

26 Aug

The Key to Happiness

Today’s post is a guest post by Brian Tracy. If you don’t know Brian Tracy, you’re in for a treat. He is a business and personal success consultant who has numerous books, articles and courses available. I took his Phoenix seminar years ago and learned so much. I’ve also read many of his books and [...]

25 Aug

Blogging Boomers Carnival #83 is at Gen Plus

Start off the week with some great new posts by the members of the Blogging Boomers Carnival #83. This week’s Carnival is hosted by Gen Plus. Written by Janet Wendy Spiegel, this blog is about jobs and life for those aged 50 and older. Even if you’re a hair younger than 50, I think you [...]

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