This article by Brendan I. Koerner suggests that your happiness may be worth $3.2 million (US).

Can we really hope to measure happiness in monetary terms?

Perhaps the measurement of happiness requires some longer-termed accounting for tangibles like less sick days; and for intangibles like increased willingness to share ideas, innovation, and job effectiveness.

Do we want to measure happiness in monetary terms? If we were ever successful in …

Thanks Jeff for the heads-up on this:

Decide what you want to learn.
Read everything you can on it.
Grab for insights.
Tie insights together.
Concentrate on magazines, not books.
Find your own special topics, and pursue them.
Go to conventions.
“Find your man.”
Keep improving your questions.
Your field is bounded where you want it to be.

Read the full text.

“I am blessed with a profession that I love; something that I would have done forever for nothing.” Jon Bon Jovi on a TV interview 9 Jan 2006.

Put another way - if you did not need the money, would you still be doing what you are doing?

I believe that conversations/dialogue is a big thing for the world at the moment. It is time we all come out of our self-imposed exile behind the walls of culture/politics/religion/politeness to start talking to each other in our real voices. There is all too much postulating and couching going on at the moment.

Speaking of integrative – perhaps it is worth meditation on not splitting home and work, but rather a holistic approach to your craft that is a seamless and fluid combination of “work” and “non work”. I am consciously going down this path this year – there is no work vs non work, but rather, there is only the main thought of how I want to spend the time …

iWoz – Computer geek to cult icon: getting to the core of Apple’s inventor. ISBN 0-7553-1407-7.

A personable insight into the inner thoughts of one of the greatest (and most ethical) minds in the history of the personal computer. Steve Wozniak was definitely the technical genius and all-round nice guy behind Apple, someone who cared more about good engineering and its positive impact on …

“I could succeed in many things, fail in many more, but as long as I have petted the cat I’ve done everything that really matters.” The Doctor, in Doctor Who: Vampire Science by Jonathan Blum & Kate Orman.

What really, truly, deeply matters to you? Can you achieve that this year?

The conversation we have with others is the relationship!

The following extract is from Susan Scott’s Fierce Conversations – Achieving success at work and in life, one conversation a time. ISBN 0 7499 2381 4.

The phrases “Don’t take this personally” and “Don’t take yourself so seriously” are misguided suggestions. Do take it personally; do take yourself seriously. … Work is deeply personal. Leading is …

This is my last post for 2006. Have a safe and happy end-of-year and new year.

As a parting question: what is the single thing you are most grateful for this year?
Mine is: the opportunity to learn how to speak my truth without fear.

Posts will resume 8 January 2007.

Christmas is coming. (Although if the shopping centres are anything to go by it arrived in October LAST YEAR … but that is another post). It seems as appropriate a time as any to ponder the idea of giving and receiving.

We have all heard “it is better to give than to receive”. I’ll be honest with you – I am good at giving, but utterly crap at receiving. …