14th September 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
The benefits of positive thinking were popularized by Norman Vincent Peale as early as 1952. These days they're touted in "The Secret." Motivational speakers have been proselytizing about them for decades. But even with...
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05th August 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
The economy is certainly forcing quite a few of us who have stepped out of the workforce to start looking for employment again. And there are other strong reasons that get us yearning for the better parts of the old rat r...
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01st August 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
Lots of us have delayed or entirely scuttled the idea of giving up work because of the financial meltdown. There's just not going to be enough money to be able to kick back for good. We feel "denied" with this developmen...
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26th July 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
There's an amazing variety of choices we make by default day after day that it might be good to think about. We also make a lot of choices by default because we assume there really isn't a choice. We assume we have to keep...
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17th July 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
I've always believed in computersâ€"if my kids were going to use them. I started buying them for my boys when my older son was 12â€"in 1981. But my personal commitment to computers is far more recent.
When I HAD to us...
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16th July 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
In the early 1800's work patterns were dictated by Mother Nature. When the sun shined, you made hay. When the winter winds blew and the snow piled up at the door, you repaired equipment and prepared for the next planting...
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12th July 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
When you retire, you have more time--unless you've stuffed your days full of whatever comes along so that you can reclaim that all-too-familiar feeling of being too busy to breathe. What other people expect of all your "e...
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30th June 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
Last weekend I saw a familiar old ghostâ€"the empty eyes of someone in need of more than leisure as retirement. I had that look myself for way too long. It's a lonely, hollow, painful place to be.
Being rid of the dem...
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30th June 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
The specter of being unemployed has become a national nightmare. But just sitting there assuming you're at the mercy of an unpredictable world isn't a very good strategy. You can improve your chances of staying employedâ...
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29th June 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
Inexperienced customer service is costing you. Here's an example. Six months ago, while checking out at my then regular grocery store, the young checker carried on a conversation with her also young co-worker in line beh...
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19th June 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
There are two colors for retirement: gray and silver.
What we assume about this stage of life is often the gray stuff. That comes from what happened to Mom and Dad or Grandpa. They retired and traveled. They retired an...
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18th June 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
Getting the most out of what you have is definitely in vogue right now. When it comes to how you use your employees to get the work done, it should be on the top of the list all year every year. There's more to effective...
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15th June 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
Daily emotional life can be painful. The snub. The really mean person. Someone else's problem that you drop everything to solve. We think these dramas are caused by other people. But the truth is we create them ourse...
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05th June 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
Right now, there's more than enough pain to go around. The pain of losing a job. The pain of losing your dream home. The pain of being one of the survivors in the all too frequent announcement of yet more downsizing. The p...
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05th June 2009
Copyright (c) 2009 Mary Lloyd
As a culture, we are doing an amazingly stupid thing. So with a nod of appreciation to David Letterman here are the Top 10 Reasons to Stop Thinking "Old" is a Problem. His "top ten" lists go from the last to the first so...
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