Try Tinder (at age 70)
Betsy Burroughs Founder & President of, FocusCatalyst: Innovation Based On The Neuroscience Of Insight. Betsy is also the author of the upcoming book, How To Stop A Bad Habit: Available 2019...
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Travel and Paint
Charles Mitchell Charles is an experienced artist and teacher who has taught in specialist art colleges and universities in the UK and overseas. He was Dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Humanities...
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Join the Peace Corps
Robin Picard is currently living in Keene, NH, enjoying the seasons, her grandchildren and a relatively quiet and uneventful life. As opposed to traveling through cultures and countries with Medecins...
View ArticleBatch Work and Experimentation
A freelance writer emailed me yesterday. Here’s what she said and my response: I found you through an Inc. article you were quoted in and reached out because I’m hoping you’ll contribute to my next...
View ArticleLearn to Sing Jazz
Isabella Celentano teaches singing at Civica Scuola di Musica Paolo Soprani in Castelfidardo, and Zona Musica and Cantieri Musicale in Ancona, Italy. Isabella sings regularly with the Reunion Jazz...
View ArticleTry Couch Surfing
Susanne Uhl-Vening https://www.couchsurfing.com/ https://belfiore-italia.com/ Born 1952 in Germany, married to my Dutch husband for almost 30 years Lived in Germany and Holland and worked in marketing...
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Lose Weight Easily
Betsy Burroughs Founder & President of, FocusCatalyst: Innovation Based On The Neuroscience Of Insight. Betsy is also the author of the upcoming book, How To Stop A Bad Habit: Available 2019 In...
View ArticleMission Accomplished
I’m trying to make sense of the strong emotions I feel about the Mars rovers. I don’t remember hearing that Spirit went offline in 2010, and I didn’t realize that Opportunity stopped communicating...
View ArticleRethinking Just Do It
I have long felt the urge to punch the copywriter who penned Just Do It because it sounds to me like an order– a condescending directive from someone who doesn’t appreciate how impossible the...
View ArticleHow did I come to be living in Italy?
A friend just asked me how I came to be living here. It’s hard to pick a place to start the story. There are dozens of flashes through my synapses when I’m asked the question– little photons that to...
View ArticleI dunno. What do you wanna do?
I was commiserating with a client recently about a tendency to wait around until others decide what to do before determining what it is that I want. This default to passivity isn’t a kindness. While...
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The enormity of very slow progress
There are a couple of goals that have been on my list for years. I re-write them nearly every day in my planner/journal. Gotta keep it top of mind, in your face, see what you’re aiming for. Every day...
View ArticleI’m Doing It Wrong
This is the flavor of my low self-esteem. I automatically assume I’m wrong. Someone else is better, they should be the one in front and in charge. This thinking has led me to avoid leadership...
View ArticleLeadership vs. Responsibility
I have actively avoided taking responsibility in my life– both out of fear that I’d do it wrong and also because I was afraid I’d be taking on more work than I wanted to do. There is something about...
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This isn’t working for me
I want to rewrite history. I want to make a different decision in the moment, but the moment has passed. So my only option, aside from kicking myself, is to feel my conviction so intensely that I...
View ArticleIn praise of contentment
My manifesto says, “Do What You Love, Love What You Do, and Stop Doing What You Hate.” What I love to do is putter. And futz. Give me a life of puttering and futzing and I’m deliriously contented....
View ArticleWhy is it so hard to stop doing what you hate?
When I think about doing what I hate a funny image comes to mind– flank steak. When I was 22, I dated a guy who cooked flank steak for me. It was one of his two or three specialties. He would...
View ArticleRethinking Just Do It
I have long felt the urge to punch the copywriter who penned Just Do It because it sounds to me like an order– a condescending directive from someone who doesn’t appreciate how impossible the...
View ArticleHow did I come to be living in Italy?
A friend just asked me how I came to be living here. It’s hard to pick a place to start the story. There are dozens of flashes through my synapses when I’m asked the question– little photons that to...
View ArticleI dunno. What do you wanna do?
I was commiserating with a client recently about a tendency to wait around until others decide what to do before determining what it is that I want. This default to passivity isn’t a kindness. While...
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