If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Be sure to leave your comments and suggestions! I read them all! Thanks for visiting!In another life, I was quite the marketing critic. As a teenager, even, I would mark up with a thick red pen the direct mail advertisements my family [...]

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Imagine my surprise when my news reader featured yet another junk study that took eight years (and goodness knows how much money) to come to the determination that,
“Secret to marital bliss: Don’t have kids”
Sigh….ok, let’s examine this more closely. The “study” concluded after eight years of study (I could have told them this in eight [...]

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I’ve read numerous stories in the past weeks about people who were living the good life….fancy cars, expensive homes, and dream vacations…only to find themselves homeless, jobless and penniless as a result of this economy.
How does that happen? How does someone go from a million-dollar home and a nice car to no home, divorce and [...]

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“Monkey Work”

Def: Work that is easy to do, requires very little preparation to get started, is somewhat repetitive, and breaks up the day to get you motivated to do more challenging work later.
I believe having a certain amount of available “monkey work” to do is vital for breaking a cycle of lack of motivation. There [...]

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As many of you know, the Toys for Tots organization which is administered by the United States Marine Corp is drastically low on toys and funds this year. If an immediate influx of donations of toys and money is not received in the next couple of days, more children than ever will find nothing under [...]

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In a perfect world, every woman would have a healthy pregnancy, a glorious pain-free birth, a wonderful breastfeeding experience and would feel completely happy and bonded with their child all the days of their life.
But most moms have trouble in one or more of these areas at least once. When we do, we’d really love [...]

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Some people are feeling the need to break up with Motrin today. He got all crazy talking about babywearing in an ad, and now moms all over the world are deciding they’re “not that into Motrin” anymore.
For those of you who don’t know, Motrin (the pain reliever) put a web ad out there talking about [...]

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Have you been watching the TV show, “Flipping Out” on the Bravo network? It features a real estate flipper named Jeff Lewis who buys and sells expensive Southern California real estate along with his staff of contractors and assistants.
I personally find the world of real estate fascinating, but I watch the show for an [...]

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