Workaholic and the end of the recession

I don’t know about you, but I am feeling mighty good lately with the news leaking out about the economy “bottoming out.” If you recall a post I made a while back, I stressed that whatever goes down must come up!
So take this as a path you need to go on now….be proactive. Think about [...]

Be Inspired – be an entrepreneur

I couldn’t help but add this video from Youtube that inspired me from start to finish. Every now and then you stop and pause and think about what to do now? How do I cope? Is there light at the end of the tunnel? And then a friend sends me this link. Watch and enjoy.
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What goes down is coming back up

In spite of all the bad and “doom and gloom” news that seems to permiate throughout mainstream media, we have reason to rays of hope now.
Although there was one piece of bad news regarding the unemployement rate going up to 8.5%, there was mostly good news on all other fronts. Wall Street is going through [...]

Workaholic and Stress

By now, you must be reeling from all the kaos and confusion about the economy here in the USA and the world. I just spoke with a good friend of mine and we “compared” notes about the economic situation and our work.
We found that we shared the same worries and fears about the future. [...]

Work through the recession

Many of you reading this post, especially in the USA know about how hard it is to survive in this down economy. Are we really working that hard to survive, or working to be busy? It is a fine line between working and not getting anything done. Take inventory of yourself. Ask yourself the questions; [...]

Working is more important than ever

As we start our daily jobs today, we should all realize the fact that we still are the same person who we were before the economic downturn. Really, what has changed in the past two years? The situation around us. The media, our well intentioned friends and family, and the so called economic experts constantly [...]

Working more efficiently

When working large jobs or a large amount of smaller projects, you must be consistent on what “system” you use to tackle these jobs. Most people I know that work in big corporations and have many projects going on at once (8 projects or more) and tell me they feel overwhelmed.
The truth of the [...]

Are we really rich?

Just read a post from John Chow dot com about how we live in our current down economy here in the USA. He makes a great point, which I always knew about our country. We still live in the greatest country on the planet. Even with our 7% unemployment rate, over one million people laid [...]

My list of in demand jobs

As you read in my last post, I have put together my own list of in demand jobs within the year 2009. Because of the worldwide downturn of the economy, it makes for different needs as opposed to the times of prosperity.
Handyman jobs are going to expand this year. People are still thinking “do it [...]

Recession is finally recognized – from last December?

I just read the newspapers and heard the radio shows talking about the “experts” telling us that the recession has arrived to the USA, only it was back in December of 2007. How interesting that our government and national media hold off telling us the recession is here only today! As you remember, all year [...]