I recently spent two days walking around DC, Maryland, and Virginia, covering 39 miles in the name of healthy cleavage. Translation: the Avon Walk for breast cancer.

When I think about lifestyle design, I usually think about automated income, mini-retirements, making money online, traveling the world, and the 4-Hour Work Week. The truth, however, is that there are an unlimited number of tools in the lifestyle design arsenal. Lifestyle design is as old as life itself […]

As we get older and develop a keener sense of our own talents we learn that not everyone in the world can sing “well” or draw “well.” But why should that stop our enthusiasm?

As a madly in love, happily married woman who recently (and I think successfully) hooked up two of her single friends, I have garnered priceless love data. And I’m willing to share it, now that I’ve tested it on someone else.

Emailing agencies to look for work is a key (and often very necessary) marketing strategy for many start-up translators. But in an era of MySpace friends and Facebook pokes, it’s too easy to forget that commercial email is a whole different ballgame […]

I have anxiety. And not the kind you get when employee reviews come around either. I’m talking about clinically diagnosed, heart-palpitating, mind-numbing anxiety. It sucks. But I’ve learned to live with it.

My office was a buzz this morning with the news, around 50 people were laid off. All day long people discussed it. Information was shared on the layoff. People were questioning who was let go. Words of sympathy were spoken for the unemployed individuals. It was all pretty typical behavior for such an event […]

You need to understand the home buying process. Purchasing your first home can be a confusing, intimidating process. Before getting started, make sure you understand the real estate process, lest you fall prey to rogue real estate agents, predatory lenders, and botched deals.

Quit multi-tasking and start single-tasking. Ignore that advice and you might actually grow dumber. People switch projects every 11 minutes, taking a whopping 25 minutes to return to the original task.

Working out has long been a part of my daily routine. I work out on average 45-60 minutes a day, 5-6 days a week. The ROI on this time is very high: by working out an hour a day I believe I reap at least an hour of productivity throughout the rest of the day […]