Tag Archive: "priorities"
Posted On: December 18, 2008
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Face it: 12-hour travel days do not a great BreakAway make. But we survived it, as did the luggage and children. Air travel becomes increasingly bumpy, so to speak, but that’s survivable too. (So far.)…
Posted On: December 1, 2008
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The news has been all over the airwaves and screens for ten days now. Say it ain’t true: Consumer spending in October slipped by 1%.
Yet when I painstakingly avoided Shoporama-Land last weekend, Black Friday…
Posted On: November 29, 2008
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Sorta brings new meaning to the term “Black Friday,” doesn’t it?
From our good friends at Wiki:
“In many cities it is not uncommon to see shoppers lined up hours before stores with big sales…
Posted On: November 12, 2008
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OMG. FYI.
53 Percentage of working Americans who have been interrupted by a work-related phone call or e-mail while in the bathroom.
23 Percentage who have been interrupted while on a date.
59 Percentage of…
Posted On: November 12, 2008
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“Our culture is suffering from an overdose of action and a shortage of contemplation. I consider contemplation a basic need; you even see it in animals. Just think about dogs and cats. You often see…
Posted On: November 10, 2008
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This L. A. Times article is a must-read for anyone who:
Thinks there is no upside to the downturn in shopping;
believes they got it bad though they’ve not yet succumbed to thrift-store shopping;
believes…
Posted On: November 10, 2008
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Have a game plan. For any game worth playing. This “Shifting Careers” column offers a spot-on Sabbatical story well worth studying.
Barbara Raab brings a perspective that this Breakaway boy may lack: What it’s like…
Posted On: October 15, 2008
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This article, by New York Times reporter Sarah Kershaw, contains much great news.
Finally, the mental health community is embracing the notion of money disorders—beyond the old-school ones like kleptomania and Sex-in-the-Cityism (shopaholism).
There are…
Posted On: October 12, 2008
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Well, here we go again.
The stock market, and by that I mean virtually ALL stock markets, have headed south with a vengeance and violence I’ve not seen in my 24 years of holding stocks.…
