The Simple Life
- Quiet mornings.
- Sing-a-long songs with my toddlers in the car.
- Sunset and a beer with my wife.
- Runner’s high on a long run.
- Cuddling up and watching a DVD with the wife and kids.
- Walking outside with my son after it rains.
- My “life” talks with my eldest daughter in the car.
- Writing a post for 50,000 people, in my pajamas.
- Feeling sick and lying in bed all day without having to call my boss. Read more »
- Posted on 15 April 2008 in Uncategorized |
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How to Make the Most Out of Luck in Your Career and Life
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from J.D. Roth, who writes about smart personal finance at Get Rich Slowly.
Some people are luckier than others.
How many of you believe this? Why do you believe it? Are you one of the lucky ones? Or does luck seem to pass you by? And just what is luck, anyhow?
According to John D. Krumboltz and Al S. Levin, there’s no such thing as luck. In fact, they shirk the use of the word in their book Luck Is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career, opting instead to use “happenstance”, a word with less baggage. Krumboltz and Levin argue that luck/happenstance isn’t something that randomly effects us — it’s something that we create out of the chance situations and encounters that run through our lives: Read more »
- Posted on 26 November 2007 in Uncategorized |
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