Stages Of The Career Development Process

Allow me to suggest, based upon my own life experience and observing the world around me, that there’s a hierarchical process of steps and stages in the career development process that evolve something like I’ve outlined below.
Why is it important to give thought to stages in the process? Well, for one there’s the matter of [...]

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What Empowers Empowerment?

Interesting question: What empowers empowerment?
It’s a question that popped into my mind when pondering the creation of a new website.
First, I’d like to suggest that unless someone is of that power they can never truly, really empower another. File this thought on the same thought-shelf as “Those who know don’t speak. Those who speak don’t [...]

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A Weekly Meal Plan for Diet and Weight Loss Success

There was a time in our lives when we always had a weekly meal plan posted on the door to the refrigerator.
In part this was a strategy for dealing with the busy lives of two working parents with two children in school and also involved in a daily extra curricular activities. Having a meal plan [...]

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Is there Still Value in Weekly News Magazines

There was a time when I subscribed to multiple weekly news magazines, such as Time, Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report. I enjoyed reading them. I enjoyed the quality of the writing, the depth of coverage, the quality images.
For awhile now, thought I haven’t subscribed to any weekly news magazine.
Why?
It’s wasn’t a decision of [...]

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A Tip for Finding the Perfect Summer Vacation Rental

It’s that time of year again, the time to locate and reserve a weekly summer vacation rental where the extended clan will gather for recreation and to catch up.
Every year finding and reserving a summmer beach vacation rental is a bit like an adventure hunt: Where should we stay? The Jersey shore? The Outerbanks of [...]

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Cutting the Personal Costs of Online Printable Coupons

My wife and I are fans of getting a good value for our money, buying a quality product for a price that’s hard to beat. So, naturally, we’re always on the look-0ut for sales, store coupons and deals.
One way of assuring that we know about coupons and deals is to sign up to have them [...]

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Free Will and Weight Loss

“Free will.”
Sounds easy, doesn’t it?
The “free” in free will lends to the appearance of ease: of availablity, of availability, without cost or charge.
Yet, consider the realm of body weight and its affects our health.
How many of us are over-weight?
Are we overweight because we “will it”? Would we impose the consequences of obesity on ourselves . [...]

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Time to Buy a 2010 Daily Personal Planner

Among the many Christmas gifts that “keep giving” one of the very best gifts can be the gift of a weekly personal planner.
Now, I’m not saying it’s the perfect gift to give every year or the perfect gift for everyone, but – really – a personal planner is the type of gift that everyone should [...]

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Calendars for the Expecting Mom

Well, it finally went and happened, and fortunately it happened in “good form” -> as in “first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby . . “.
What finally happened? Well, the “next generation” is what happened in our little clan of my brother, my sister and yours truly. My sister’s son and his [...]

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Lava Lamps Are The Perfect Do Nothing

My daughter, in response to something she gleaned from her old man (me) – something I said, a casual remark, an expression of whimsy – decided that the perfect gift for her father would be a lava lamp.
To those for whom a lava lamp evokes an image of an exploding mountain of melting rock – [...]

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