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Life Balance

Why You Might NOT Want To Be Like Gary Vee

by Jason 03.14.2010 Life Balance

[This article was originally published over at Dumb Little Man. There is a great discussion to be found in the comments, including one from Gary himself!]
I am a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk. If you’ve never heard of him, he became famous for his online TV show, Wine Library TV, in which he brings [...]

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Don’t Blame the Blackberry

by Jason 03.07.2010 Life Balance

I was moderating a panel on work/life balance a few weeks ago. A woman on the panel, at the height of a very distinguished and accomplished career, talked about the demands of her job and the stress of dealing with the high expectations of her clients.
“A group of us finally sit down to a [...]

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Our Half-Lived Moments

by Jason 02.28.2010 Life Balance

Are too many of your moments half-lived?
As a dad, I often find myself fighting the battle between enjoying a moment with Lucy and capturing it on film. One truth that I think slips by most dads and grandpas is this: As nice as it is to record memories to look back on later, photographing a [...]

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Your Life’s Sexy and Exciting Grande Finale

by Jason 02.20.2010 Life Balance

The end of a fireworks display is always the most exciting. It’s loud, colorful, and frenzied with big, bold activity. That’s how we imagine our lives to look like when we answer the question: What would you do if you only had six months to live?
We’d go down swinging in a spectacular grand finale, of [...]

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Who Are You Trying to Prove Wrong?

by Jason 02.07.2010 Be Honest

He suffered from ADHD.
His parents got divorced when he was nine.
He didn’t do so hot in school.
And his middle school teacher told him that he’d never be successful.
Nice.
Everybody seems to have their own definition of success, but I’d be hard-pressed to find anyone to dispute that winning 14 Olympic gold medals is a pretty good [...]

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Open Letter to Alton Brown (and Dads Everywhere)

by Jason 01.31.2010 Life Balance

I recently got a copy of Good Eats: The Early Years by Alton Brown. To paraphrase Ron Burgundy, if you don’t think it’s the greatest show on television, I will fight you. As a Food Network junkie, I dig Alton’s quirky, fun, no-nonsense style. Between writing books, filming Good Eats, hosting Iron Chef America and [...]

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Are You A Human Doing?

by Jason 01.24.2010 Adultitis

ShareIt’s easier to be a human doing than a human being.
I have the good fortune of spending two hours each morning with a little bundle of energy known as Lucy. She recently became interested in bringing me books to read to her. I enjoy this new level of interactivity, even though the subject matter is [...]

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What Grocery Shopping Can Teach You About Life Balance

by Kim 01.21.2010 Life Balance

ShareI am the worst grocery shopper — ever. I’ve found that many of the reasons I was able to teach kindergarten effectively all fly in the face of being a good grocery shopper. Being easily distracted with a short attention span and the endless aisles of marketing mayhem do not serve me well. It’s a [...]

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