Victoria's Blog

As someone who has great difficulty making a decision to buy anything, it doesn’t take much for me to decide just to pass on a particular purchase – no matter the price or degree of need. I would probably benefit by having reasons to buy, rather than reasons to delay. But still, since most of us ...

With a headline like the one above, how could I not stop and read!   Here’s what Nancy Anderson, a career and life consultant based in the San Francisco Bay Area, has to say on this topic.  If you suffer from chronic health problems, your distress may be rooted in the fear of poverty and the fear...

Here’s yet another article with a provocative title that was hard to pass up.   As a former journalist, copywriter,  book editor and now real estate agent who sends and receives a very large number of emails almost every single day – and carefully “revises” almost every single response – I found...

I read this post recently and was impressed because the writer chose quotes from “ordinary” people – friends, colleagues, associates – none of them famous (at least not yet) but all, apparently, sufficiently motivational to have had an effect on the writer. After reading the article I tried colle...

  As someone who gets up quite early out of a perceived necessity to get things done and get a jump start on the day, I was captivated by the thought contained in the title of a recent article that my approach may be not be valid.   At the very least, the idea that the “early bird catches the wor...

A friend forwarded this article to me and the title was so intriguing I simply had to read it! It's actually an excerpt from a popular novel - that I've apparently missed - being so involved in my normal, daily activities. "Caught up" is probably a more accurate desription than "involved". But yo...

I came across this article recently and I’m sorry to say I neglected to copy the author’s name. I believe he was an executive who “discovered a pasttime that has helped in all facets of his life. Here’s what he had to say in his own words. I found his insights quite useful even though I’m not sur...

Here’s another interesting list I recently came across and thought might have “broader” implications. Any list that suggests I need to follow the advice in order to be “successful” always catches my attention – and makes me suspicious.   How can anyone really know for sure what will or will not l...

I live and work in a mostly rural area with lots of trees, so you can imagine my surprise at learning that trees may be useful for something other than providing shade and shelter and material for furnishings.   Logging still continues in my neck of the woods (literally) and “tree farms” are comm...

The subject of this article really captured my attention. Like most “lists” and tips for anything, the information isn’t particularly new. But reading this data again and actually trying to formulate ways to implement the suggestions into my daily routine did provide yet another opportunity for m...