Life List Stories and Inspiration

The Costco Connection magazine often has in-depth interviews with successful businesses and famous consultants, making it a surprisingly informative and interesting “life management” type of publication.
This month they featured a long story about the Sugarbowl Bakery and how the Ly family went from Vietnam to Very successful. Check it out if you have a life [...]

Skydiving bah humbug. Hang gliding…for wimps. Paragliding, as if. My new goal is to FLY like a flying squirrel or bat, inspired by this great video about wingsuit flying.
Are you in? (Add a goal to go wingsuit flying to your life list!) Or better yet, have you done this?
If you like having dreams (the sleeping [...]

Inspired by a MORE Magazine article on 10 Great Jobs for Midlife Women, here’s a list off the top of my head of some interesting jobs requiring “smarts, savvy, and experience” that I’m guessing either have real potential…or that I find a little amusing:
1. Assisted living anything. Any role related to assisted living, including becoming [...]

The Open Forum business blog has a detailed and clever analysis about what went right with the Obama election campaign. In Dale Carnegie Meets Barack Obama: Winning Friends And Influencing People In A Web 2.0 World, Brent Leary observes the parallels between how the campaign managers used video, word of mouth marketing, and other tools [...]

There are many things I’ve always wanted to do—none involving baseball goals.
But when my friends invited me to a walking distance bar to watch the World Series, how could I refuse? The bar turned out to be THE bar of choice for Philly fans. So it was fun to see my friends on the local [...]