Updating Your "Plum" Job

Written by Norma Schmidt, Coach, LLC


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2. What do you enjoy?

3. How much income do you need to feel you are being fairly compensated?

4. How much flexibility do you want in your schedule?

5. How much mental and emotional energy do you want to have left after your paid work is done?

6. How often and for how long do you want to travel out of town?

7. How far are you willing to commute?

8. Is there an upper limit to how many hours you are willing to work per day? Per week?

9. How often are you willing to relocate?

10. How much ofrepparttar time do you want to work from home?

Are you already holding your "plum"? If not, keep your new vision in front of you. What steps can you take today to put your updated "plum" within reach?

(c) 2004 Norma Schmidt, Coach, LLC

Norma Schmidt, Coach, LLC specializes in helping women who are both professionals and parents to find work that works. She edits "The Balance Point," a free bi-weekly e-zine. Visit http://www.NormaSchmidt.com.


My Dad's Secrets

Written by Gary E. Anderson


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My father understood those rules clearly. Dads worked hard and stayed employed, regardless of how menial or mundanerepparttar job. Dads spent time with their kids. But most importantly, dads offered glimpses into what it meant to be a man and a father—inrepparttar 110909 purest sense of both terms.

In what seems to me to be a smaller way than my dad, I walkrepparttar 110910 precarious tightrope that is "Dad" vs. "Me," always trying to maintain a balance betweenrepparttar 110911 two. And although my circumstances are very different,repparttar 110912 importance ofrepparttar 110913 task remains unchanged.

Like my father, I try to let my kids know how much I believe inrepparttar 110914 sanctity of this special time in their lives. By offering them my love and support, I hope to give themrepparttar 110915 gift my father gave me—the greatest gift a father can give, really—warm, gentle memories of their childhood. And no matter how difficult their lives may become later on, they’ll always be able to take comfort in those sweet memories, and no one can ever take that gift away.

So here's to my dad, to your dad, and to all dads—men who gave up or postponed their own dreams so that we might reach for ours. Men in whose footprints we tried to step as we struggled throughrepparttar 110916 deep snowdrifts of our childhood, marveling at how long a man's stride could be.

Gary Anderson is a freelance writer, editor, ghostwriter, and manuscript analyst, living on a small Iowa farm. He’s published more than 500 articles and four books. He’s also ghosted a dozen books, edited more than 30 full-length manuscripts, produced seven newsletters, and has done more than 800 manuscript reviews for various publishers around the nation. If you need writing or editing help, visit Gary’s website at www.abciowa.com.


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