“There’s a correlation between risk taking and confidence. I try to put myself in situations where I will find confidence. You have to find the confidence rather than just think you don’t have it innately. I do things that challenge me that I know ultimately will make me feel great.” Here’s one 40-something woman’s […] Read more…
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Stay Connected to Your Financial Future
I did a post a few weeks ago about the ultimate independence being financial independence. The key thought: If independence is what you want, money is a big key to it. Financial success equals independence. It doesn’t get better than that. All the rebellion or individuality in the world is nothing if have to rely on others […] Read more…
Putting Relationships to Work – Don’t Forget the People Around You
Today I have some more advice from a 40-something who started her own event planning business 20 years ago and today teaches event management at NYU and has expanded her business to consulting young grads about branding “you” amongst other things. I shared her advice about relationships — never underestimate the power of them — […] Read more…
Who’s Got Your Back?
This weekend I spent a good eight hours at the Apple store with a severely damaged disk drive… so one bit of advice today is… always back-up your computer! Maybe I’m the only one who doesn’t (or at least not more than once a month). But as I saw people come and go as I […] Read more…
Putting Work Relationships to Work
Yesterday I interviewed another amazing 40-something woman, a divorced mom of 3 and business owner who has taken charge of her life and is happy in her skin. So many people say comfortable in your skin but some women go beyond that to be happy in their skin. But before I diverge, today I’m focusing […] Read more…
Don’t Throw Good Time After Bad
I had to take some small guilty pleasure this weekend in the fact that Charlie Sheen bombed in his first show this weekend. It was so bad that many people walked out after 30 minutes and he ended up walking out on himself. It got me thinking yesterday as I was doing some reading on […] Read more…
Now We Know…Just Ask for Help!
Future Anxiety Syndrome This weekend I had the fun opportunity to be a fly on the wall at a mini-reunion of eight 40 year old women who went to college together. Many of them went on to live together in Chicago and now they hail from Chicago, Pittburgh, Nashville, Minnesota and New York City. I […] Read more…
Put “Not Knowing” to Work in the Workplace
Don’t be intimidated by thinking that everyone around you has it so much more figured out than you do. One woman shared this insight with me that a college professor imparted on her. “Confidence is as much a rhetorical position as it is a real attitude that people carry with them. Just because someone is […] Read more…