Archive for March, 2008
I was invited by the Cosmetic Executive Women Foundation to attend a Roundtable with other bloggers who write about health issues, cancer or careers. Bloggers included: Mathew Zachary, ImTooYoungForThis.org, (a place for young adults affected by cancer) Hannah Seligson, DailyCents.com, Deenie Hartzog JolieNadine.com. The CEW Foundation has recognized that cancer affects women’s careers and they’ve [...]
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You have to read my new report, Perspective. I’m quite proud of it because it’s different from anything I’ve written before. It’s a free download on my website. And, with that, you’ll get a free subscription to my new monthly eNewsletter, Words of Wisdom, the Chronic Illness at Work Newsletter. It’s actually the best post [...]
Living with chronic illness means living with the unpredictable — on so many fronts. My client emailed me with a distress signal: her boss told her that she had to come into work more frequently than she’d been doing. Six months earlier, she’d negotiated working from home two days a week – and she could [...]
Isn’t that a weighted question? It becomes particularly “interesting” when you find yourself on and off disability, and back and forth between doctors’ offices on a regular basis. And, more so when you have an illness and children! There are so many questions to answer to make such a determination. Today, I offer you some [...]
Networking and building relationships with others, whether you work for a company or run your own business, is pretty darn important for long-term success. A viable business is built on relationships. Career growth and longevity is too. However, when you are living with in a fluctuating state of health, it’s not always possible to get [...]
Have you noticed the wave of blogging going on among women with chronic illness? Do you find it helpful? New York Times blogger, Paula Kamen, writes: “The basic message of the growing number of young women blogging about chronic illness – who have just become a significant force only in the past three years or [...]
My daughter, Lucy, 23, has been teaching in an urban school for two years. She plans to go to Law School in a year. Not to practice law but because she thinks it will give her the credentials she’ll need to do what she wants to do. And there’s where the story stops. She’s not [...]
Because I work from home and do 98% of my work on the telephone with the support of email communications, I spend a lot of time on my computer. A few weeks ago I was suddenly overwhelmed. I review marketing plans for people in my Get Clients Now! tele-class programs. With 2 programs running, I [...]
Today the sun was shining (hey, I live in Southern California), and I was in my front yard planting flowers in my garden. So, I wondered could I have done this back in the day when I wasn’t feeling as well? At my very worst no way, but with a some return of energy and [...]
