You must have been living under a rock if you missed the hoopla of The Secret last year, and the associated buzz about the Law of Attraction. I know my readers range from the strongly skeptical to more woo woo than Jeffrey Osborne. But I hope all of you like a post that I just [...]
You might remember my post from a few weeks ago where I mentioned BusinessWeek’s solicitation for pictures of home-based offices. They sorted through entries and came up with their favorite ten, published today (alas, Kathy’s airstream trailer was not included, most likely because she didn’t submit her photo). I think my favorite is the last [...]
I had the great pleasure of attending a lecture and book signing this evening by Mignon Fogarty, better known as Grammar Girl. For those of you unfamiliar with her work, two years ago she began her weekly 5-minute grammar podcast as a hobby and quickly saw it explode on iTunes. Today, she has an average [...]
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that Minneapolis musician Owen Sartori filled a need I didn’t even know I had, a theme song for Escape from Cubicle Nation: The Cube. Another thought came to mind while writing the chapter of my book called "Define the spirit of your brand": what song captures the essence [...]
For a bit of a change, this week I focused my Martha Beck post on the relation of eating habits and the brain. Those of you who know me well are aware of my late-night sweet attacks, when I feel as if I cannot write a single word unless I have a big pile of [...]
A couple of months ago my husband was in discussion with some business associates who wanted to form a joint venture construction company. Since just about everyone I have ever met in business has told me to run screaming from partnerships, I was quite leery of the whole idea. So in addition to asking a [...]
Last week, I floated the idea of running a 15-week workshop based on Martha Beck’s book Finding Your Own North Star. A number of people expressed interest, so I put together a detailed outline and chose dates. Based on the number of people on the list, I proposed two distinct groups, since I don’t want [...]
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