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How To Make A Living From Many Interests

Many Baby Boomers or encore entre­pre­neurs rein­vent them­selves from the cor­po­rate world to their own busi­nesses because they feel stalled in careers that don’t encom­pass their var­ied interests. Unfor­tu­nately, many carry their old way of think­ing with them when they open their own shops. That’s the indus­trial struc­ture that empha­sizes you should “focus” on one role or...

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Big Benefits In Being Around The Block

Midlif­ers and Boomers are rein­vent­ing en masse into entre­pre­neur­ship after leav­ing their long­time cor­po­rate gigs. But sev­eral wor­ries  come with that kind of a lifeshift. Mostly, these new entre­pre­neurs worry they may be “past it”. After all, isn’t entre­pre­neur­ship sup­posed to be for the young and reck­less? Cer­tainly not for the more mea­sured deci­sion...

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Positive Deconstruction: Light Up The Dark

Recently, I expe­ri­enced one of my “gone-dark” peri­ods. I call them that because they’re those hit-rock-bottom emo­tional moments when every­thing seems dark and somber and depressed. In these moods, noth­ing seems good; every­thing seems wrong. There are so many prob­lems swirling around in your brain, that you can’t focus on any of them. You feel like a com­plete fail­ure, that...