Blog Posts
Frugality is Fundamental
By Hillary Rettig |
As I teach in my Time Management workshops, living frugally is a fundamental success skill. Frugality increases the odds of your getting to live your mission, while spendthriftness increases the odds that you will live beyond your means, go into debt, and never escape from the consumerist treadmill. Frugal people ...
Yes, Positive Reinforcement Works
By Hillary Rettig |
A hallmark of what I teach, and coach, is that you create positive behavioral change by providing encouragement and showing people (or yourself) how to build on existing strengths - the positive reinforcement approach. And you don't create behavioral change by criticizing or bullying. At best, bullying creates short-term change, ...
Fun Links for Thursday: How Old Are Your Ears
By Hillary Rettig |
Many people lose their ability to hear high-frequency sound as they age. You may have heard about the British company that was using high-frequency sounds to drive off loitering teens - the sounds apparently sound incredibly shrill. I say apparently" because "this page lets you test your "auditory age" and ...
Great Links for Celiac Sufferers
By Hillary Rettig |
I have a niece who has Celiac, so keep an eye out for relevant info. These links are excellent: from the Boston Globe, an excellent personal narrative about living with it the Globe story mentions an organization for Celiac sufferers, Healthy Villi that looks interesting. It's Boston-based, but has great ...
On the Perils of Early Promise
By Hillary Rettig |
This month's More magazine has a memoir that hit home with me, and will with many of you, too, I suspect. My So-Called Genius is the story of a woman, Laura Fraser, who...well, I'll let her tell you: "I learned the word precocious long before other kids my age. By ...
Book Review: Look Me in the Eye
By Hillary Rettig |
I recently finished Look Me in the Eye by John Elder Robison, the brother of Augusten Burroughs, who wrote Running with Scissors. I couldn't get through Running...: it was well written with lots of clever bits, but seemed like an unending and ultimately pointless freak show. Look Me in the ...
An Astonishing First Sentence
By Hillary Rettig |
It was hard to read Paul Krugman's New York Times oped today past the first sentence: "Nine years ago The Economist ran a big story on oil, which was then selling for $10 a barrel." $10 a barrel?! Just 9 years ago?! Astonishing. Oil is $117 a barrel today. It ...
It *Is* Harder to be an Artist These Days
By Hillary Rettig |
Right on the heels of my blog entry on obstacles to Living a Halcyon Life, the New York Times publishes a great overview of the financial difficulties artists face . Excerpt: "Rent for a studio or a one-bedroom in the East Village, for example, has more than doubled in 10 ...
