DONT BE YOURSELF WHATEVER YOU DO! THIS IS THE FIRST OF A CONTINUING SERIES ON THE SELF Some years ago, I saw a great New Yorker cartoon. The New Yorker is a wonderful weekly, of course, and there are many exceptional articles in each issue but the cartoons alone are worth the price of the … [Read more...]
8 WAYS COLLEGES LIE ABOUT CLASS TIME. TIME LOSS, PART 3
November 7, 2013 by
8 WAYS COLLEGES LIE ABOUT CLASS TIME PART 3 OF A 7-PARTER ON FALSE TIME PROMISES WE LOSE TIME DUE TO LIES, FALSE PROMISES AND TIME "ESTIMATES." People constantly give us false job estimates and fool us. And we don't help the situation because we often fool ourselves. WE LOSE PATIENCE AND … [Read more...]
TIME LOSS, PART 2: THE EVIL ETA SYSTEM COSTS US TIME AND MONEY!
November 7, 2013 by
TIME LOSS, PART 2: THE EVIL ETA SYSTEM COSTS US TIME AND MONEY! In the first post in this 7-part series regarding phony time estimates, I said we are getting faked out by false promises when we are told by anybody--individuals, governments, bosses, companies, sales people, repairmen--anybody--how … [Read more...]
LOVE YOURSELF FIRST OR YOU CAN’T LOVE ANYONE ELSE
November 6, 2013 by
LOVE YOURSELF FIRST OR YOU CAN'T LOVE ANYONE ELSE IF YOU ARE A YOUNG PERSON, LOVE IS AN IMPORTANT TOPIC. You have either been in love, ARE in love or wish you were in love. Or maybe you don't really know what love is! That is more likely! I am always in love but love starts with … [Read more...]
OTHER EDUCATIONAL CHOICES
November 5, 2013 by
OTHER EDUCATIONAL CHOICES We'll have information and articles on non-traditional educational choices and institutions soon. Not everyone should go to college. And there are excellent reasons for that. Both students and parents have to come to grips with the idea that NOT everybody has to be a … [Read more...]
TIME LOSS, PART 1: HOW WE FOOL OURSELVES BY BELIEVING FALSE ETAs
November 5, 2013 by
TIME LOSS: PART 1 : HOW WE WE FOOL OURSELVES BY BELIEVING FALSE ETAs Part 1 OF An 8-PART SERIES ON HOW FALSE TIME ESTIMATES WRECK OUR DAILY LIVES. FALSE ETAs--ESTIMATED TIMES OF ARRIVAL --DRIVE US NUTS! (AIRLINES OR DRIVING TIMES ARE THE WORST) This will change your perception of time … [Read more...]
OTHER POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION DDL
November 4, 2013 by
OTHER POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION Not everybody should go to college and we'll show you other possibilities--good ones!-- in non-academic courses. Courses you may be happy to discover, enroll in and pursue profitably. Other post-secondary institutions teach everything from trades, to cooking, from … [Read more...]
HIGH SCHOOL INFORMATION
November 4, 2013 by
HIGH SCHOOL INFORMATION We'll be posting here soon, folks. We just opened this week! In the meantime, check out some of our opening posts. I'm sure you'll find something of interest there! And register here for free information on you and education...get free gifts too when you sign … [Read more...]
TIME LOSS, Part 4: “Housekeeping” kills time.
August 27, 2013 by
TIME LOSS, PART 4: "Housekeeping" kills time and fosters false expectations. This is the fourth in a 7-part series on how false time expectations cause us stress, frustration and a loss of time and money. Here's a list and links to the first three of the posts in this series. How we fool … [Read more...]
NO SELF-KNOWLEDGE DOOMS YOU
June 25, 2013 by
NO SELF-KNOWLEDGE DOOMS YOU Mad Men’s Don Draper: how to screw up life—your own and everybody else’s. The first job of our lives is to know ourselves. If we fail to do it, nothing—nothing—can prevent us from failure, regret and emptiness. This is brought home today in Salon by Heather … [Read more...]
