Retirement RX

In the book “Retirement RX: The Retirement Docs’ Proven Prescription for Living a Happy, Fulfilling Rest of Your Life,” Dr. Fritz Fraunfelder and Dr. Jim Gilbaugh share the results of their study of those who make the transition to retirement successfully.
The most satisfied retirees all share eight key traits. While planning for financial security [...]

Making Connections

Tim Sanders describes an exercise from his book “The Likeablity Factor” in a post on his blog, Sanders Says, called “Develop a Sincere Interest.” It’s a great way to make connections with the people in your life. Here’s a summary of the steps:

Write down the names of your most frequent contacts.
Write down the interests and [...]

Happy For No Reason Photo Cube

I recently read the book “Happy For No Reason” by Marci Shimoff. The many charts about choosing expansion over contraction were terrific. I was inspired to put them on a photo cube template from HP to make a Happy For No Reason Photo Cube. The HP template is a little small for the photo cube [...]

A Tool for Clear Purpose

This is a wonderful tool to clarify what you want to do with your life:
Pave Your Life Roadmap at Idea Sandbox
Don’t miss:
The radar diagram in pdf-a visual map of how you are doing at filling your life with value.
The Life Roadmap Plan in doc-a way to get specific in each life area about what will [...]

Tracking loving actions

Personal Development System
Part Two: Relationship Tracker Cards relationshipset.pdf
This set includes four cards:
1. list your main primary and secondary relationships.
2. fill out a contact card for each of the relationships you listed.
3. conversation starter card.
4. an emotional account card to track loving actions.

Loving Actions

Personal Development System
Part One: Relationships
Learn to speak in each of the five love languages with this lovelanguages.pdf. Master the language that speaks loudest to your significant other.

Regularly scheduled maintenance

Maintenance may not be generally considered sexy…but perhaps it should be. That which is not maintained disintegrates. This applies to everything…a house, a car, a business, a relationship. This is why we must make choices about what we will invest energy in, and the most efficient methods and the optimum frequency for doing so.
Stephen R [...]

Leadership

Reader’s Digest provides a tool to grade the presidential candidates, with nine traits of success.

Marketing U

            Marketing is about developing a strategy to interest customers in the products or services you offer, and then implementing it. Marketing is a plan for how to communicate benefits. Marketing yourself works the same way as marketing for profit or non-profit organizations.
            Begin with determining your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) Use the formula from [...]

Clues to Purpose

Purpose. It’s what lights up your face, it’s what makes it a joy to get up in the morning and be alive. It’s what fills you with energy. It’s what you want to share with others, what you enthusiastically enjoy talking about. Do what you love-happiness is work that uses your talents for a purpose.
Some [...]