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Why Working For Yourself Is So Great

Vacation when you want to

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Make A Video, Win Spa Stuff

Want to win free spa products? For each week during the month of August we will select a winner.

Make a video showing us how you relax and post it on youtube.com/travertinespa. You can also email us a photo or Tweet us.

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Office Bully

An Excerpt from the book How I Changed Careers :  Office Bully I saw the dysfunction in how they would talk to each other.  Ask inquiring questions with a caring face and then bash each other behind their backs.  I … Continue reading

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Risk

  I have been thinking about this concept everyday. Because I am taking risks everyday. Its not easy and somewhat fearful to leave home, work, go to a foreign country to write a book. Financially its not easy either. Every … Continue reading

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An excerpt from the book How I Changed Careers, “Neil”

An excerpt from the book How I Changed Careers “Neil” was a senior partner at an important boutique law firm. We met at an embassy party in Tokyo 8 months earlier. He welcomed me to Washington and suggested we meet … Continue reading

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Amici

mici   My Jetlag is still terrible. I was able to sleep until 3 this morning instead of going to sleep at 5am. I listened to Rick Warren’s TED podcast and an Entrepreneurial podcast from Stanford. I fell asleep again. … Continue reading

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Ready For My Close-up

My inteview was fun. We talked about my book, “How I Changed Careers.” I talked about how this is timely given the American and world economies. The interviewer, Salvatore, wanted to know what I thought caused the American economy to … Continue reading

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Pantelleria Part II

I woke up this morning, watched some news in Italian about GM going bankrupt. Had a quick breakfast and headed out for the internet café and a dammusi rental agency. I asked God to help me find somewhere beautiful, the … Continue reading

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Pantelleria

I arrived yesterday. The place I have been studying, researching, hoping to see…for months. I was tired. I only slept 30 minutes last night. Jet lag is terrible. I left Rome early in the morning and took a connecting flight … Continue reading

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Kindred

  After Palazzo di Spada, I wondered into Campo di Fiori and went to another café and ordered things that I didn’t even know what they were. The couple next to me were looking up restaurants. I asked them about … Continue reading

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