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REVOLTING is Exciting!
Early in my career, the crusty cigar-sucking CEO of the ad agency where I worked used to preach to all of us creative types that “Nothing happens until people get excited.” Believe him! At the beginning of 2009, as I had done at the beginning of very year for the past ten years, I “resolved” to... »
DARE Revolt!
If you really need to D A R E something new, different, better, more life-affirming for yourself, your career or another worthwhile goal this year, forget resolutions. By the time we’ve reached 40, 50 and beyond, we’ve learned that resolutions are the “would have, could have, should have” promises to ourselves that come back... »
Top Five List of TREASURES for 2009
‘Tis the season for joys, toys, and noise, for buying and baking, for sending and re-gifting, for gorging and gulping. Over the next month, the cacophony of commercialism will be all but intolerable. Whacky widgets, gabbing geckos, syrupy singers, butt-naked bimbos—not to mention those panoramic palettes of eye shadows and lipsticks pawned off as... »
Go DARE: BRAND Your Own Self!
Over the past few weeks, Maria Shriver—the Kennedy daughter and First Lady of California—has been prominent across more media outlets than Octo-Mom, Kate and Jon, and Balloon Dad—combined. By now, we all know that Shriver is the coauthor—along with TIME and the Center for American Progress (a politico-educational think tank founded by President Clinton’s ex-Chief... »
Go DARE: Starter Tips
Right now, you’re probably thinking – “Hah, who is SHE to tell ME to Start something new?” It’s not easy to DARE Start. Not even for someone relatively fearless like me! It was cruelly humbling to squeeze my middle-aged middle into tiny seats in overheated classrooms surrounded by buff 30-somethings who could thumb-stab multiple coffee/... »
Go DARE: PLAY!
A poll conducted last year by Opinion Research Corporation found that 29% of American workers took no paid vacation time in 2007, and another 24% took a week off or less. According to ORC, in 1980, people in only 10 other countries lived longer than we do. Now, people in 41 other countries live... »
Go DARE: Tough Love? DARE to Tough It Out!
As part of my work, I attend many conferences where stale statistics on slides are soon decimated by fresh frenetic factoids of reality spewed at us from the churn of the 24-hour media cauldron. For example, speakers at these events often assert that baby-boomers are “retiring in huge numbers” – 30 million to over 60... »
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