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 […]

 

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 […]

 

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 […]

 

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 things […]

 

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 out […]

 

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 […]

 

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 […]

 

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 […]

 
 

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