Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Living

Life Lessons

How To Sleep Better At Night

Yesterday afternoon, I charted all the "to-do's" for my professional life onto Stephen Covey's quadrants: Urgent and Important Not Urgent and Important Urgent and Not Important Not Urgent and Not Important This was an assignment given to me by my...

Pet Peeves

I find it annoying when people send me email and they request a return receipt. My email program tells me when I click on the email that the sender has requested a return receipt--essentially proof that I've opened up the...

Question #2

This is the second in this series of specific questions that Ilene is answering. I thought you would enjoy seeing a picture of me with Ilene (on the right, looking down), taken last week at her home. If you click...

Likeability Factor

I've had a piece of paper in my "interesting but what to do with it?" pile for about six months. It's entitled, "An L-Factor Assessment" by Tim Sanders, author of the book, "The Likeability Factor."  It's a quiz that one...

Personal Branding

I was introduced to a great resource on personal branding this week. William Arruda has a company called Reach. This guy is the real thing. He comes from the ad agency, Ogilvy, and has adapted the concepts of branding in...

Question #1

Last week, I posted Ilene's thoughts after reading alot of the questions that people submitted around Conscious Living and Conscious Leaving. Here, Ilene answers a specific question from the list. She'll continue to answer one specific question a week, as...

15 Minutes of Fame

Hey, if you aren't on my distribution list for my ezine, sign up here. I just sent out the following to my distribution list: Okay, everyone deserves 15 minutes of fame and I think now is my time. In the...

Leading With A WHOLE NEW MIND

I'm pleased to announce a new podcast program, Leading With A WHOLE NEW MIND, based on the book, A WHOLE NEW MIND by Daniel Pink.   Each month, I interview a pioneer whose work is to bring an aspect of right-brain...

Ilene’s Thoughts

Several weeks ago, I talked about a special project I'm working on--taping conversations with a friend on Conscious Living and Conscious Leaving. Rather than to continue to refer to "my friend who is dying of ALS," I've gotten permission to...

Wanted: Wascally Rabbit, Dead or Alive

Okay, I'm getting desperate.  Last week I blogged about my rabbit problem. Here's what's happened since then.  I brought, Bodey, the neighbor's dog, over to my yard. Or rather the neighbor's son, who plays with my son brought him over....