Live. Life. Now
When we first introduce people to the concept of Pretirement, the scene often rolls out like this. Us: “Blah, blah, blah…then we changed our lives and never looked back. Pretirement is an amazing way to do business and live an awesome life! We get to do all sorts of cool stuff from traveling the world [...]
A recent Time Magazine article was boldly titled “Always say yes to networking.” We agree. Good advice, Time. Networking is a huge part of business success. Another benefit of networking is that it happens to be a heck of a good barometer as to whether you’re in the right job/industry. I used to hate networking. Networking used [...]
Working remotely is challenging - whether you work from a cafe, your home, a shared work space, or any of the other growing options there are for remote workers. I’ve been working remotely for about 5 years now. I’ve also been managing the challenges of work and family during these years, and working remotely seems to shine [...]
A few years back I was managing a global marketing campaign for a technology client. I was working with a large budget, lots of moving pieces and a lot of responsibility. The product I was marketing was extremely technical software. It’s basically software that runs the Internet. At one point, one of my colleagues from [...]
In my past life as a “regular” entrepreneur I had a standing meeting in my calendar for Monday mornings at 9 am. The meeting was held with with my staff to review the week’s projects. It would get us all on the same page and set the tone for the week ahead. Fast forward 5 [...]
When I read Danielle LaPorte’s post earlier this week entitled, Do not do shit just to please your parents it hit a major nerve with me. First of all, I 100% agree. After finishing the article I felt like a companion piece was needed called “Also, don’t do stuff just for the sake of your kids.” [...]
There seems to be a bit of confusion out there about what Pretirement is (and is not) that we’d like to clear up. Pretirement is not early retirement. It’s not about eliminating work altogether. But, if you want to know how to do that, there are some interesting blogs here and here that can help you [...]
I was as surprised as anyone to learn that Marissa Mayer – the working mom’s poster girl – had eliminated Yahoo’s popular telecommuting policy. Telecommuting is good for companies in that telecommuters have been proven to be more productive than their office-bound counterparts. It is also becoming widely recognized that telecommuting is good for employees because it provides [...]
So, I took up surfing a few years back, at age 34. That’s about 150 years later than one should take up surfing but I figured what the heck, how hard can it be? I soon discovered it to be the most challenging thing I’ve ever tried. I’m no wimp…other sports have included mountain biking, [...]
