Since my Mom stopped treatments a few months ago and started Hospice her quality of life has increased tenfold. And, so has mine. I have support and so does she. With no treatments and better management of her pain we are enjoying our time together and having fun. We laugh a lot! The support has…
Category Archives: Work & Life
Blogging Break and Self-Care
You may have noticed that not too much was been happening here at The Dreaming Cafe over the past six to seven months. Part of the reason is most of my time is devoted to care-giving or working part-time. The second half of the reason why I’ve been absent from the blogging scene is that…
Does Your Work Meet Your Needs
Whether you’re self-employed or work for someone else the work you do needs to meet your needs, or at least the important ones. First, you get to decide the important ones and second, don’t expect your work to meet all of your needs. Just as you cannot expect a single individual, like your spouse or…
Making Time Versus Finding Time
Friends and colleagues often ask me how I find the time to do all that I do. I have to chuckle a little, because I never find time, I often have to make time. When something is important to me I recognize that I need to make time for it (or them). In the process…
Ten Ways to Find Your Tribe
(This post was originally published in The Dreaming Cafe Newsletter, Issue 68, May 9, 2010.) My definition is “a group of people who share similar interests, values and beliefs and who willing support one another without judgment”. Seth Godin’s definition of a tribe is “a group of people connected to one another, connected to a…
Temp Employment Part Two – How to Succeed
Continuing on from yesterday’s post Ten Benefits of Temporary Employment today I am talking about how to succeed as a temporary employee. I have been on both sides of temporary employment. These suggestions are based on my experience both as a temp and as a manager who worked with and hired temporary employees. As a…
Temporary Employment Part One – Ten Benefits
Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics June 2010 report temporary help services continued to add jobs (+31,000), and employment has increased by 362,000 since reaching a low in September 2009. You can review this report at: http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/ceshighlights.pdf Over the years I’ve have had numerous temp jobs, several which turned into permanent positions. Prior to…
My Artist Date
When I worked a full-time day job I had lots of time alone. I spent sixty to ninety minutes a day alone in my car commuting to and from work. Time alone to listen to audio books and my own thoughts. I had an office, not a cubicle and I spent most of my day…
Eight Rules for Working From a Home Office
1. Dress for work. Causal is okay, but no sweats or pj’s. You are a professional and this is a professional work environment. 2. Connect with others. Take time everyday to engage with people on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook. Read and comment on other people’s blogs. Send and answer a few personal…
Commitments
When I joined Derek Sivers email list last year he sent me a personal note. “Wow!” I thought. “This is real!! And, way cool.” I thought about what it meant to me to be contacted personally, not just with an autoresponder, by the man behind the blog/website. I realized I wanted to do that. I…
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