In This Issue

News from Joan (right)

Your Bucket List (below)

Quotes for the Month

Job Seeking Tips: Looking to Move Up or to Move On?

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News from Joan!

Everyday you are alive is a Special Occasion!

The other day, even though I was just going to work in my home office, I saw something in my closet that I usually save to wear on special occasions. Then I thought to myself, why not wear it, everyday I am alive is a special occasion! So I wore it and loved looking at myself when I went into the bathroom. It felt great to treat myself as special just because I was me and I could.

So, I encourage you to treat yourself and your family as ‘special’ frequently. Bring your wife flowers or a small gift for no reason except she is special. Ladies dig out the good china,glass ware and silver once or twice a month for a special family dinner because the whole family is special. Are their other things around the house that you are saving for a special occasion? Maybe a picnic basket that has not been used in years, well maybe it is time to have picnic, even if it is on the living room floor.

Stop waiting for a Special Occasion to Celebrate yourself, your family, friends and your life. Life is too short to wait.

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1. Your Bucket List

With distractions from email, mobile phones, text messages and all the other electronic wiz bang stuff that advertisers try to get us to believe we just cannot live without, it is sometimes hard to think more than 5 minutes ahead.

Yet without longer-term priorities, it is easy to forget that 80% of all that stuff contributes absolutely nothing to what you really want in your life, long or short term. I think of it as junk food for the mind. A waste of precious time needed to focus on what is truly important to you. Priorities are important, because when they are foremost in your mind, you will find it easy to say no to the things that waste your time and do not contribute to your goals.

I would like to challenge you to make a 5- and 10-year Bucket List for your life. Suppose you knew you would be dead in 5 or 10 years. Would that change your list? I bet it would. Now is the time to make sure the next few years contain the things most important for you to see, do, and accomplish.

Consider the following categories and list what you want to do more of or do less of this year to stay on track with your Bucket List. Add any other categories that are important to you.

Friends and Family – Build better and deeper relationships; share time together. Let go of those relationships that do not work or get help to work them out.

Spiritual Development – Learn, teach, and practice

Work and Career – Learn, grow, advance, and build relationships

Health and Wellness – Get checkups for eyes, ears, teeth, body; add healthy habits

Investments, Insurance, Wills, and Retirement – Get professional advisers

Travel /Adventure – What do you want to see and do?

Hobbies and Activities – Want to try something new?

Community and Volunteering – Giving back or paying forward.

Now that you have your list, enjoy filling up your bucket!

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Quotes for the Month

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
—Gertrude Stein, US author in France (1874 - 1946)

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.
—Jane Howard, Families

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
—Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952, German Jewish diarist (1929 - 1945)

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
—Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), (attributed)

Job Seeking Tips: Looking to Move Up or to Move On?

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