013. Permanent Vacation

How do I bring a bit of vacation into my everyday life?

This is something I’ve been thinking about for ages… how do I take the proper amount of time for myself without falling behind in the steps I need to take to fulfill my goals. Or, as the professionals say, how do I find my work/life balance?

I need to set aside time everyday to go to the gym, exercise, or just take a walk; I need to read more; I need to journal more. These things sound like a list or resolutions, though. And, in a way, they sound like additions to my to-do list. What I really want is a permanent vacation. And by that, I don’t mean never working or lounging around a pool all day. I mean that I want to find more time to take care of myself.

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012. Falling Into Passion

I guess you could say that I fell into my passion.

I have always and forever been an artistic and creative person and took more joy in learning about artwork than any other subject in school. I never thought, though, that being an artist could be a profession. All my life I was fed stereotypes of the starving artists; the Beatnick, the wandering writer, the sojourning painter, the sketch artist at the street fair. Never once had I thought I could make a liveable wage working in aesthetics. And so, when the time came to go to college, I didn’t study drawing or painting or crafts. In fact, I didn’t study any kind of skill at all, really. I went to school in the discipline of International Relations.

Now, in my later twenties, I appreciate so much more the need to have a skill and the motivation it takes to build a career in a profession that I both love and feel I contribute something absolutely unique to and, of course, can make money from – at least enough to live on.

I’ve discovered, or fell into, a new passion: graphic design.

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011. Blog Strategy

Some of the brightest, best, and most interesting blogs I read all seem to have something in common. Each of the writers has a specific blog strategy. While it may not be rigid, the most successful blogs all have some kind of guidelines under which they publish. So, I have decided to come up with [...]

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010. Older Americans Month

For those of you who don’t know, I work in the field of aging and May is Older Americans Month. While this may seem on the surface to have nothing to do with my foray into graphic design and website development or what has come to be known as social media, I actually do a [...]

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