Are you sick and tired of your non-fulfilling job?
Don’t you sometimes feel like telling your boss “Take this job and shove it?”
Well you can. I have done it on several occasions. Not in those exact words, but rather tactfully, and often after giving them several warnings.
A paradigm Shift
The first step to firing your boss is a Paradigm shift. You need to see your boss for who he is. Someone who is using your services. He needs you because you have something to offer that no one else can.
What? You say …

Several months back I wrote something profound on my Facebook status.
You can gain a few things here and there by lying to others, but you lose everything when you lie to yourself.
I know it was profound, because people told me so.
But that in itself is a lie. I knew it was profound, and that’s why I put it on my FB page. Others just confirmed it.
I have been lying to myself a lot lately, and it has got me into a lot of trouble.
I don’t want to lie to …

As I mentioned in my previous post, Looking Back at One Year of Blogging, it was a year of ups and down and a lot of meaningful personal growth. The lessons I learned are personally meaningful, and some of them are so basic that I am embarrassed to admit it in public that it took me 56 years of a lifetime to learn them.
1. Keep your word At least on two occasions (Guadalupe Peak and Passionate Pursuits) I made a public commitment to do something that I did not follow through on. …

This marks the completion of the first week when I disciplined myself to my commitment, and did what I said I would do. I am happy to report that it didn’t kill me. {:-)
Let’s see, where do I begin? Well, the car is still sitting out back and the insurance company is not very eager to part with their money. duh! So, we are still relying on the rental car. Balloon business has been good, somewhat better than usual and I learned more about being receptive to what you ask …

This is one of my all time favorite songs.
And I would like to dedicate it to all my nomadic friends and readers of this blog, but specially to my blogger friend Sean Ogle of Location 180, who is leaving for Thailand on Jan 5,2010.
Fly free my friend.