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25 Mar 09

U.S. business leaders say hobbled by healthcare cost

The Business Roundtable, which represents the largest U.S. corporations, released a study showing that for every $100 spent in the United States on healthcare, a group of five leading economic competitors -- Canada, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and France -- spend about 63 cents.

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01 Nov 08

15 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Working Another Day | Productive Flourishing

    • 15 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Working Another Day


      October 17th, 2008 | Flourishing



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      Are you in the right line of work? Should you be doing something else? Ask yourself the following questions:



      1. Do you get to do your work, or do you have to do your work?
      2. If you were guaranteed your current standard of living no matter what you did, would you still do what you’re doing?
      3. True or false: When you think about what you do, are you dreaming or dreading?
      4. Who decides when you work: you or your organization?
      5. Do you get through your day or are days a chance to advance your goals and projects?
      6. True or false: If you stopped liking what you’re doing, you would quit.
      7. Does your productivity keep you working or does it help you maintain productive motion?
      8. Do you like to talk about what you do, or would you rather people not ask about it?
      9. True or false: What you’re doing today helps build skills and achievements that help will help you do what you want to do 6 months to a year from now?
      10. Does doing what you do drain your energy or renew you?
      11. Do you make your To Do list or does somebody else?
      12. True or false: You would be proud if someone you loved did what you’re doing.
      13. You get up early or stay late because…1) you want to work on the project or 2) you want to get the project done.
      14. When you say what you do, do you say “I am a (_____) or I (_____). Example: I am a painter vs. I paint.
      15. Would you do what you’re doing if you weren’t getting paid for it?


        16. I recognize that some of the questions seem the same, but sometimes asking the question differently yields different answers. Please share some of your answers or thoughts if you’re up for it.

11 Oct 08

Life coach? - Timeshare Users Group Online Community Forums

I can answer the what to do with the rest of your life questions..for free...
I decided long ago (7 years ) when my sister-in-law (32 yrs died of brain cancer), cousin-in-law (34yrs died of cancer), uncle (46yrs died of brain cancer) left this earth that I need to rethink my life. At that moment I STOPPED looking at a JOB for my happiness...and saw my job as an opportunity to make the $$ I needed to Live the life I wanted after work. Sooo...I now have 3 jobs (4 if you count being a mom) , because I said ..."Gee when I retire...I want to teach", so I got a job teaching part-time (online and in person 1 day a week), then I said..."Gee, I want to start my own travel business" ... so I started a part-time business planning and selling small trips to friends and family - of which we get to go on with a lot of them. Then I said, "Gee, I would love to travel more..." and I used all of this part-time income to finance my monthly trips of at least one 4-day weekend, and make it so that we travel every holiday or day off during the year that we can.

So the morale of my story is....DON'T LET YOUR JOB define YOU or the life you LIVE when you leave work. DON'T LET the people you work with bring you down...REALIZE that YOU decide how people or a situation EFFECTS you. AND....live your bucket list...write down all the things you want to do if you retired and $$ was not an issue, and TRY to work them into your life today. That way the job you are working, is just a means to start to live the life you have yet to discover for yourself...and who ever said you needed to have the answers today...take your time and plan your adventure.

Who made the rule that you can only have 1 career your whole life, who made it so we couldn't change our minds? No one, Live your life saving each experience as an adventure to discovering yourself.

When I changed my outlook on what I do at work from my purpose in life, to a means to LIVE my life, I am a lot happier with all the things I do, even the things I did at work and at home that I felt were

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28 Jun 07

Homeowner's insurance: how to get the best deal - Lifehacker

  • If you're a homeowner, you know that one of the "hidden" costs of owning your castle is homeowner's insurance. Financial planner Deborah Fowles has written up a few ways you can cut this cost; she includes such tips
04 Feb 07

Microcontent: Headlines and Subject Lines (Alertbox)

  •  "Microcontent needs to be pearls of
    clarity: you get 40-60 characters to explain your macrocontent. Unless
    the title or subject make it absolutely clear what the page or email is
    about, users will never open it."     - helaine on 2007-02-04

    • Guidelines for Microcontent


      • Clearly explain what the article (or email) is about in terms that
        relate to the user. Microcontent should be an ultra-short abstract of its
        associated macrocontent        .
      • Written in plain language: no puns, no "cute" or
        "clever" headlines.
      • No teasers that try to entice people to click to find
        out what the story is about. Users have been burned too often on the Web to
        have time to wait for a page to download unless they have clear expectations
        for what they will get. In print, curiosity can get people to turn the page
        or start reading an article. Online, it's simply too painful for people to
        do so.
      • Skip leading articles like "the" and "a" in email subjects and page titles (but
        do include them in headlines that are embedded within a page). Shorter
        microcontent is more scannable, and since lists are often alphabetized, you
        don't want your content to be listed under "T" in a confused mess with many
        other pages starting with "the".
      • Make the first word an important, information-carrying
        one. Results in better position in
        alphabetized lists and facilitates scanning. For example, start with
        the name of the company, person, or concept discussed in an article.
      • Do not make all page titles start with the same word: they will be hard
        to differentiate when scanning a list. Move common markers toward the end
        of the line. For example, the title of this page is Microcontent:
        Headlines and Subject Lines (Alertbox)        .
      • In email sent from your website, make the "From" field clarify
        the customer relationship         and reduce the
        appearance of spam or anonymous intrusion (but don't use the name of the
        customer service rep. unless the user has actually established a
        relationship with that person: mail from unknown people also has a tendency
        to be deleted and will be harder for users to find in a search).
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