With all the finance books I’ve been reading lately, a common theme is starting to appear with some of the more “happy wealthy” people that are used as examples in these books – they have found a career that gives them satisfaction and when they work, it’s not really work, but more something they enjoy that they are getting paid for. Obviously there are aspects of every job that are not desirable but is it really possible to find that…
Like every other kid, I had a few ideas about what I wanted to be when I grew up. One in particular came after watching Star Wars and Space Camp and that was being an astronaut. (If you have never seen Space Camp, please pause here and go find it on iTunes. We’ll wait till you come back.) I thought the idea of blasting off into a place where few people have ever been was THE COOLEST thing in the world. This dream…
Glasses are clinking, kids are running around, and the men are crowded around the grill. You are holding a glass of wine, because it’s something to do with your hands and someone, you think they are the wife of a friend, comes up to you to introduce themselves. It’s going great and then she asks the question you’ve been dreading, “What do you do?” As a writer, or as a my friend Kristen Lamb would call us, “pre-published authors,” I’ve…
I was reading a blog post from Kristen Lamb about moving from being an “aspiring writer” to a “professional pre-published writer,” and it got me thinking. How many of us out there are actually living our dreams? This is something that I think about a lot because now that I’m a mother, I want to tell my daughter to reach for her dreams – dream big and work hard for what she wants in life. I confess, though, that I’m hesitant to…