story-telling

Work Life Stories: A New Kind of Dad

Still a statistically small group, stay-at-home-dads are becoming more prevalent and represent a unique corner of the work life balance milieu.  I asked Stephen de las Heras, one of my daddy friends who is parenting and balancing a freelance photography career, if he would share his story. “I’d clawed my way up through the publishing […]

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Work Life Stories: Books and Babies

The first in my series of work life stories is representative of a relatively new piece of the economic puzzle – mothers who work from home, often at night or in the early mornings and make a decent financial contribution in the process.  It’s a hybrid approach – entrepreneurial, but with low costs of entry […]

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One-Size-Fits-All?

I love stories.  I love hearing them and I love telling them.  In another life when I was a recruiter, the single reason I stayed in the profession for so many years was the chance to sit down several times a day and ask people, “So tell me your story.”  Why people do what they […]

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The Key to Whatever Work Life Balance I Possess is Right Here!

I am a Planning Geek There is an opinion that planning creates restrictions.  Reduces fluidity, spontaneity.  I firmly hold the opposite view. Like budgets, I find planning empowering.  Planning gives you a framework, a methodology, an approach.  The mistake people make, myself sometimes included, is that the plan becomes the end game.  My mantra is: […]

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GET CREATIVE: IT IS POSSIBLE!

I have a friend in the professional services sector in New York, working in one of those pressure-cooker 24/7 type of environments I wrote about recently.  In fact I have a whole lot of friends in these industries.  They work insane hours and are, for the most part, remunerated very well.  Most of them laugh […]

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What Gets You Through Times That Take Everything You’ve Got?

Over at Blessed Nest Perch I’ve been musing on this issue.  Mostly at 3:00am it would seem.  But days (nights) that threaten to crush you can happen any time to any one, irrespective of whether it’s a crying infant, a family member or dear friend in crisis, a horrible day at work, or something deeply […]

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