Tag Archives: passionate

Retirement Isn’t For Me

I’ve always said that I would die with my boots on. I don’t want to ever retire. I want to work until the last breath leaves my body. Even before I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up I knew that I wanted to work all the days of my life. Throughout the years, through the hard times and the good times, I’ve always known the importance of doing something you love. I tell clients to figure …

You Just Graduated… Now What?

After speaking to many college graduates and reading many articles about career paths that college graduates are entering, one thing stands out above the rest. I haven’t heard one person say that the career they have chosen is something they feel passionate about. Instead, I hear them talk about an emerging industry or that the pay is good, or that the job market in those areas is good. What many people don’t realize is that the job market changes according …

After the Breakup

Can a couple go from a romantic, passionate relationship to a nonsexual friendship after the breakup? Some can, and some can’t. It usually depends on the level of emotional involvement and how much time has elapsed after the breakup. Although most couples will tell you that their love and emotional involvement were very deep, that may not be completely accurate. It may be that their emotions were more attached to their sex life, than to the relationship itself. When sex …

You Can’t Make Someone Love You

One of the most heartbreaking things to witness is the person who tries desperately to get someone to love her or him or to get people to be his or her friend. There is a quality of desperation about it that makes people run the other way, yet the person who is putting out those vibrations refuses to see it. You either want to be someone’s friend or you don’t want to be that person’s friend. You either love someone …

Listening to Your Heart

If you ask someone why they chose their career, more often than not you get to hear a variety of reasons, but very few of them tell you that they entered their career because they loved it. And, if you ask them, years later, why they stay in their career if they don’t love it, you will find very few of them who tell you that they grew to love it. Although we’d like to believe otherwise, most of our …

Following Your Passion

I came across an article that debunked the idea of following your passion, saying that it’s very narrow-minded and it limits your approach to life. It went on to say that we should train ourselves to feel passionate about our job even if it’s a terrible job, otherwise we’ll make ourseves miserable. In a sense, I can understand the writer’s point of view, but in a larger sense, it is very far from what I believe is the road to …

Childhood Memories

By the time my parents had me, they had already been friends with their crowd for more than twenty years. In those days, children were seen and not heard so my parents were spared my observations of their nearest and dearest friends. One of their friends had two children, a girl and a boy and, all during the years I knew them, I never knew their names. Their mother called them Brother and Sister. She would sit there and say, …

Man-eater, Deliberately Cruel but Not Sorry

I came across an open letter to the wife of her boyfriend by a woman, whose motive escapes me. She starts out by saying she isn’t sorry for what she has done and then goes on to show how she deliberately entered into an affair to hurt his wife. She bragged about kissing him on the stoop of his house while his wife’s birthday was being celebrated in their backyard. She detailed how she deliberately kept her boyfriend from going …

Purchasing Happiness

Purchasing happiness? Is such a thing even possible? People who don’t have money and who work at unfulfilling jobs certainly seem to think so. We always hear that money doesn’t buy happiness but is that really true? While it is true that there are many millionaires and billionaires who aren’t happy, they can at least pay for treatment if they are clinically depressed. Not so with the people who live from paycheck to paycheck. But is that really a good …

Connie H. Deutsch