Archive for February, 2009

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

The Power of “Good Enough”

Let me ask you a question.
What does it take to satisfy your needs and wants? I mean, How often have you made a purchase, taken a course of action or what not and been truly satisfied with the result?
When was the last time a purchase you made was “good enough”?

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Friday, February 20th, 2009

How to be the Employee Everyone Wants to Work With

I often remind my fledgling nurses that there are two kinds of nurses: those that everyone wants to work with and those that nobody wants to work with. While I focus here on nurses, the same ideas could  be applied in virtually any work

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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

The Work’s the Thing!

I was reading Leo Babauta’s article Finding the Natural Rhythms and Flows of Working and was reminded of one of the stresses of my own life. Although I work in education (presumably an information industry), the organization I work for has some very industrial ideas about work. You must be in your office from 8AM [...]

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Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

What is Your Relationship with Money?

About three years ago I ran across an interesting book by Joe Dominguez, “ Your Money or Your Life”. Fittingly, I found this book in a used book store. I read through the book fairly quickly and was truly impressed with Joe’s message.

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Monday, February 16th, 2009

What Does the Simple Life Mean to You?

A couple of days ago I wrote a post exploring how the frenetic pace technology seems to cause has driven a need in many to find a simpler life. But, if you read the books and websites and other articles about the simple life, it seems that everyone has a slightly different take on what, [...]

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