"It's really tempting to spend time trying to get paid for what you love. It's probably easier and certainly more direct to talk to yourself about loving what you do", Seth Godin.

A friend’s son graduated from high school nearly 2 years ago.

In that time, the boy has worked a total of 7 ½ weeks. When asked, the son carefully explains to his annoyed/annoying parents that he wants to find a job he ‘loves.’ Something that is less boring and more fulfilling than working in a retail store or flipping burgers.

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process. -Euripides

“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.”  Ann Landers

Wife: I have good news and bad news.

Husband: I m very busy. Just give me the good news.

Wife: The airbags in our new Porsche work perfectly.

“Blogging is pure vanity.” – Unknown

I often spend leisure time trolling the internet for new, different blogs.  (FYI, young people surf the net. Old people troll it.)  In part, it is to find ideas for new classes and my own meager, monthly contributions to this blog—anything to get the creative juices flowing.  Mostly though, it is to encounter new ideas and new people and hear their very differing perspectives.  I like to believe it is part of my own lifelong learning. 

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

We’ve all had it at one time or another – that awful feeling when the inspiration for whatever fabulous idea you were working on is suddenly, inexplicably gone.