The Middle of Nowhere (Can you find it on a map?)

Written by David Leonhardt


Working from home on websites for international customers has certain occupational hazards if you live out inrepparttar middle of nowhere.

Allow me to explain. I pay for my family's daily rations of bread, water andrepparttar 116425 occasional snow flake (when in season) by promoting my clients' sites, mostly torepparttar 116426 search engines. My clients don't live just downrepparttar 116427 road from me. That's mostly because my clients are neither sheep nor cows, but also because they are comfortably settled in Australia, Britain, Florida,repparttar 116428 Midwest, California and other far-flung places.

Occasionally, one of them wants to know where in Canada my operations are located. It would sound most impressive to mumble something about a 32nd floor vista overlookingrepparttar 116429 Toronto harbor, then holdrepparttar 116430 phone outrepparttar 116431 window to capturerepparttar 116432 sound of honking horns and shouts of foul language below.

However, a more honest answer would be that I am overlooking snow, trees, and snow...and inrepparttar 116433 distance I can seerepparttar 116434 barn whererepparttar 116435 sheep choir practices on summer afternoons.

I suppose I could fake it. The problem is that they don't sell CDs full of honking and swearing. And relaxation music probably won't impress many clients.

So I just tellrepparttar 116436 truth. I live inrepparttar 116437 middle of nowhere.

But where exactly isrepparttar 116438 middle of nowhere? About a mile torepparttar 116439 east is Dunbar, a fourteen-home hamlet that boasts two churches, a community hall, a play park, a lube service for farm equipment, andrepparttar 116440 tulip lady, whose yard is somewhat messy but looks like a festival every spring.

A mile torepparttar 116441 west is Elma, a hamlet that boasts a dozen houses and a truck.

We live in a nameless hamlet half-way between, but we do overlookrepparttar 116442 Elma Public School, which must have immigrated during a slowdown inrepparttar 116443 Elma economy (the truck driver went on vacation!).

Think I'm making this up because this is a humor column and I'm supposed to stretchrepparttar 116444 truth to make it sound funny? Not this time. But wait – reality gets even funnier.

If you send me a letter, do not address it to "middle of nowhere" or "nameless hamlet". The post office andrepparttar 116445 phone company both say I live in Chesterville. But there are a few complications.

Do You Know Who You Are?

Written by Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy


A close friend of mine is a coach and has a phrase she uses quite frequently - "Be, Do, Have." As Jeanne Sharbuno puts it, you need to do it in this order for you to have success in your life.

In fact, if you go in this order you'll have success fromrepparttar inside out. It is a type of success that is transformational.

So I started thinkingrepparttar 116424 other day - what is it that most people who are creating a home based business do? Why do they create a home based business?

Some ofrepparttar 116425 common reasons are:

•Work at home •Time Flexibility •Tired ofrepparttar 116426 Rat Race •Tired of Delivering Products •etc.

But what many of us fail to do is look at what we want to be before looking at what we're going to do and what we're going to have.

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