The first step to fixing any issue is to identify it. As I do not want to assume there is any issue, let’s say the problem which has led you to read this website is that your life is out of balance. Specifically, I will assume that your life is not balancing well with your [...]
This post is less a how-to guide and more of an announcement. Over the next year (or longer), I will probably be talking about business a lot, as well as personal life. In the sake of balance, I have decided to begin writing about business now, rather than just introductions to personal subjects. Because of [...]
Tomorrow, along with Black Friday, is the National Day of Listening – a time when it is proper to ask for and share stories about communities, lives, and families. For this holiday, I want to challenge you all to both ask somebody else and answer the following question yourself: how will you be remembered? The [...]
Yesterday, I was having a conversation with a dear friend of mine about what it means to be healthy and what one must do to live a balanced life. She is a Christian while I am nonreligious, though I am closest to Buddhism if it matters. We both have worked very hard over the last [...]
Image via Wikipedia According to popular psychology, there are nine types of intelligence and people can be people-smart, music-smart, language-smart, and more. In Ancient Greece, people commonly learned everything from philosophy to exercise. Any businessperson will tell you EQ is just as important as IQ for networking. But what are the nine types of intelligence, [...]
Image by Pink Sherbet Photography via Flickr The main goal of this blog is to teach small business owners working from home and college students alike the art of living balanced lives. Personally, I define living balanced as being happy with progress and continuing personal growth without limiting or becoming obsessed with professional growth. A [...]
This blog is firstly about balanced living, which includes being courteous and polite with others. As such, before I begin talking about how to live using manners, I believe it is necessary to explain why it is necessary first. Etiquette matters because it is what keeps us from harming each other. Regardless of religion (or [...]
I like to think this blog has a somewhat unique name, especially since for the first time in my life, I actually managed to get the domain of my choice on the first try. The point of the one-year tightrope is that it will last for at least one year, in which I will share [...]
I only recently restarted recycling plans after a few-year hiatus. When I lived in Alabama, I was an avid recycler of aluminum cans because I was a prolific drinker of Code Red Mountain Dew. The addiction may have transformed to diet soda, but it still remains and I still consume four or more cans per [...]
Dear readers, I am writing this because it is usually necessary (or at least somewhat desirable) to introduce the topic at hand on these sorts of websites, affectionately called “blogs” in this age. My name is Michael and I am a community college student preparing for a year from now, when I will be moving [...]
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