Color To Enhance Your Worklife

Interesting article about how color can affect your worklife (and I guess your personal life too).

Use low wavelength colors to focus and calm down: blues, grays, purple, etc.

But use high wavelength colors to rev up and get motivated: yellow, orange, etc.

I guess the problem can be when sometime you are unfocused and other times you are unmotivated. Then what do you do colorwise???

I love the color gray, so if I could paint my walls at work, I would paint them gray. I think it is a tremendous color to make you feel in control and focused.

http://www.stylelist.com/2011/09/26/how-color-can-help-you-work_n_982043.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl6%7Csec3_lnk1%7C99687

Career Changers Or Wannabes: Read Up!

You can tell from the subhead of my blog that I am a career changer. And I am always thinking about the next great thing. Not because I am disatisfied, but because I know that it is the best way to stay relevant and on top of careers and making money going forward. Plus, it is fun.

Even though I loved my past career and thought I would retire in that job, I always had the needling feeling that I needed to do something else. Just in case. Just in case my job and industry were phased out. That is not the case yet, but could be, so that was good thinking on my part.

Below is a link to an article about other women who were game changers. They started new jobs, new careers, or even new companies to broaden themselves and their opportunities. Happy reading!

http://glo.msn.com/relationships/change-it-up-1534405.story?gt1=49006

I May Need To Get Life Insurance

I have never really needed life insurance before. Sure, it would be good to have it to cover burial expenses and pay off my bills if I should die. I could have used it for that, but never really bothered. I have some paltry life insurance at work but not enough to take care of much.. I don't have dependents, so it never seemed important for me to investigate it.

Things may be different in the near future.  A young relative of mine may come to live with me, and I will be her caretaker. Her guardian, her custodian--however you want to call it. Things aren't good for her at home, and I have offered to take care of her. If so, she may be moving in with me in a couple of months.

Now suddenly I am thinking I should get life insurance. Probably term life--I hear that is best. I wonder where I can get a survey template to find out good rates?? I am hoping I could get a good rate. But I am not a 20-something anymore, and not even a 30-something either. So my rates will be higher, but hopefully still manageable. I already have a private disability policy, so maybe I could get a survey template from that company.

I am not a smoker and I am in pretty good health, so I should be approved. In the next few months, I will definitely take the plunge, fill out a survey template, and get signed up. I'll feel better once this is all taken care of.

When In Business For Yourself, You Worry About Getting Paid

Now that I am a lawyer, I am thinking about things like how to get business. I am just doing it part time, and am not ready to go full time, but I will at some point. I will need to know when to make that switch. But with more clients come more work and more billing. But how do you do that in an effiicient way and make sure you get paid?

I guess there aer not easy answers to making sure you get paid part. But there are systems and people out there that can help with such office tasks as billing.

A good friend of mine is a physical therapist, and she would like to go out on her own, but she is concernd about her physical therapy billing. Her work days are so busy helping patients, and would be even more so if she goes on her own, so when would she have time for physcal therapy billing and all other aspects of office work that would need to be done. And I know there are aspects of medicare and medicaid that she is concerned about now. Are those programs going to change, and if so, how would that affect physical therapy billing?

For right now, I think she is Ok with continuing to work at the nursing home, where others take care of these issues. But if and when she steps out and starts her own practice, these are things she will have to figure out.

Is Online Freelancing The New Online Dating?

After being an independent contractor on a couple of freelance writing websites for a little over a year, I have finally settled into a comfortable place. I am making enough money on the side from freelancing to complement my full time salary and actually get somewhere. Somewhere meaning being debt free, financially secure, and paying for some minor luxuries without panicking sometime on the horizon.

I have to admit it is a nice place. So many employers (a misnomer actually for those hiring independent contractors) only want to pay a pittance for work, sometimes as low as $1 an article for 500 words, and of course, they want it RIGHT NOW. Since I am a professional writer and editor, I pay no attention to these people. I won't even tell you what I think of them. (It is not good.)

But I have two regular gigs that are pulling in some nice money weekly. But they take time. I am also to the point, where I have to be careful to not take on too much work. When I bid and get selected, I am always flattered and want to do the work. But you have to be careful not to take on more than you can do well per week or month. When you have a full-time job, that can be hard to figure out.

But what is funny is how many employers post jobs and never fill them. Or contact you by phone or email, sometimes having a lengthy discussion, saying they want to hire you, and then you never hear from them again. Or even that they hire you for a job that they posted, and you never hear from them again. What gives? It reminds me so much of the online dating that I also do. All show and no follow through.

Fishing In Orlando

One of my best friends just got married and moved to Orlando. I am happy for her but really miss her. I haven't talked with her much since she moved down there, so that makes me sad. I know they are busy setting up household and getting used to each other. But I do miss hangiing out with her. She is also having fun doing all the great activities you can do in Orlando. They do things like go camping and fishing,, so they cae looking for a camping and orlando fishing guide, She told me xI could come down and visit, so i am looking forward to that sometime. Maybe I can do that sometime in the next year, since I have no more vacation time. I haven't been to Orlando is a long time, so that would be fun.

Already Excited About My Cruise

I am not going on my cruise until January, but I am already excited about it. I had dinner with my friend who plans the cruise for her boss. It is a private music cruise. That means it is more expensive than a regular cruise, but it is worth it. This year will be my fourth year, and I am beginning to get to know some of the regulars. Some go every year, and I think I have joined their club.

Seems like everyone I know has been going on cruises. My cruises have all been to the Caribbean. My parents and a friend have gone on French river cruises. A few of my friends have gone on Carnival Cruises. Others have gone on Mediterranean cruises. I am a huge traveler, so any kind of cruise is good with me. I just like to get away, and even sitting in a deck chair with a book and staring at the ocean is therapeutic to me. The cruises I go on leave from Florida. I haven't been on one of the  Carnival cruises yet, but I have thought of it. They have some that leave from New Orleans, and I would like to leave from there. Maybe I will end up being one of those retirees who live on cruise ships. That would be fun--you would always have a fun schedule and you would be meeting new people all the time. Carnival cruises could be my mailing address.!