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Learn to Love It or Shove It: Your Job

by Ray_anne
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  Yesterday, I wrote a post about finding happiness in your work or – or - leaving your work at work and not letting it define the whole of your life.  It was an innocent post about learning to love the tedious parts of your job or the parts you hate and not letting them infect [...]

February 3, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Happiness: Does Your Career Define Who You Are?

by Ray_anne
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Are you happy? Do you have the time or impetus to find happiness in your life? Sometimes we get so caught up in just getting by from day to day that we lose the big picture. The big picture of being content, of feeling settled, of finding our place – the place that feeds into [...]

February 2, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Why Blogging Matters

by Ray_anne
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Social Media has pretty much been dissected, why it matters, why Twitter will change the face of business, why all of it is important.  Or, at least, why someone thinks it’s important.  There are many who write on a regular basis – who produce original content consistently, who create thoughtful and meaningful responses to emotionally [...]

February 1, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

LIVE during the Dash

by Ray_anne
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Have you heard about your dash?  As in, How’s your dash going?  In this instance, your dash represents the mark on your tombstone that separates your date of birth from your date of death. In other words, it represents your life, the part during your existence in which you lived on earth. And while it’s weird [...]

January 27, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Determine to Succeed

by Ray_anne
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“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.” ~Henry David Thoreau When you wake in the morning, do you look forward to your day? Do you stretch your arms above your head with the desire to wake and start your day or do you slunk back down under the covers, trying [...]

January 25, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Be The Expert

by Ray_anne
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What does desperation do to you as a Businessperson? As a Salesperson? As an HR Professional? As a Recruiting Professional? Sometimes, there comes a valley in the activity and we stagnate, or get bored, or even become desperate. Working to close a deal can be exciting, hectic, hurried, and representing ourselves, our company, or our client properly [...]

January 24, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Gold Standard: Not What it Used to Be

by Ray_anne
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Paper money used to be backed by a supply of gold, actual gold.  Not the flecks that sometimes glitters in lakes and streams or in a quiet ocean, but solid gold. If you desired to trade your paper money in for the only bars better than chocolate, you could. There was a sense of value [...]

January 23, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

You Can’t Always Get What you Want: Hard Work

by Ray_anne
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In order to achieve success, one has to work very hard or just be very lucky. I have learned, the hard way, “you can’t always get what you want.“ Achieving desired success… Unfortunately, what we want isn’t always what we need.  Sometimes, our desires are more deeply rooted than our needs. Money is the obvious payoff for [...]

January 17, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Customer Service Ain’t What It Used to Be

by Ray_anne
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Why are you receiving this notice? Leave your name and contact information at the tone * Press 2 to speak with a customer service representative * Follow the directions inscribed here * To make a payment, please press 1 * To hear the company directory, press 411 * Part A connects to Part B, then [...]

January 16, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Facebook and Love. Not necessarily in that order…

by Ray_anne
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  I have been threatening to write this post for a while.  Why has it taken me so long? Because this story is living, it is breathing, and it continues to evolve.  But I can no longer “not” write it.  It is written indelibly across my heart, to be sure.  Loving someone has never been [...]

January 13, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Good Things Come to Those Who Take Them

by Ray_anne
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I love George Carlin.  Posting a quote by him always makes me happy, because he says the things we think but usually don’t have the guts to say.  Given the current tumultuous state of the Republican US presidential primary and the vehemence with which many are speaking concerning the presidential election slated for this November, [...]

January 12, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Saving Sandcastles – Making Sound Choices Today

by Ray_anne
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Last summer, I sat in my beach chair, flanked by my two daughters and enjoyed the Sunday afternoon sun as we watched our surfers. The day had started off a bit foggy but the midday heat soon erased the memory of our cooler morning. The sounds of children delighted squealing and mothers’ seagull-like beckoning filled [...]

January 6, 2012 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Whew! What a Year…. 2011!

by Ray_anne
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I know it…, I can’t believe it either.  Where did 2011 go?  It seems to have flown by, but when I look back at it realistically?  There was a heckuva lot packed into those 365 days.  And I am kinda glad 2012 will have one more day in it than 2011. What will you do [...]

December 29, 2011 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Social Media: When Sociology and Technology Collide

by Ray_anne
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What is Social Media? It’s a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. Three years ago, this was part of the definition of Social Media given by Answers.com, as stolen from Wikipedia. I find [...]

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