Pilot Fish Personal & Professional Development, LLC
Prosper on Purpose
Author Carlos Castaneda said: “It takes just as much energy to be miserable as it does to be happy.” You choose.
Is your fun-o-meter score registering a HUGE 0? If so, it may be time to FUN SHUI your life. In fact, if you want to live a more happy and balanced life, it’s just plain FUNdamental to add more playfulness and laughter. After all, fun is one of the best things to have!
Becoming a fount of fun is not as difficult as it might seem, and it will make you much more attractive :-).
Here’s an exercise that will help spur creativity, may give you confidence to move forward on projects, and has the added benefit of pestering some of your close friends . . .
Ask five of your closest friends to e-mail or text you a list of what they consider to be your five most positive personality traits. As tempting as it might be for some of your impish friends to poke fun at this exercise (“dude, you can down 3 beers an hour and still stand up”), ask them to treat this seriously, and to concentrate on positive, uplifting things only. Because most people will rapidly forget a buried e-mail or text, request that you receive these lists within 24 hours. [Read more…]
We live in a 24/7 connected, always-on world. Our ubiquitous smart phone whistles, burps, farts, or chimes, seeking to secure our attention. Just as we were getting used to the fast pace of e-mail, along came texts, to which we are expected to reply within seconds. And if this intrusion into our personal lives isn’t bad enough, far too often we are electronically tethered to our employer or business, either of which constantly craves us. [Read more…]
People who trade securities often look at technical indicators to try to predict the performance of a particular stock. This involves examining charts of the past actions of the issue, looking at the high and low prices at which it traded. Those who study charts can find prices of support and resistance. Support is a price level from which analysts believe the stock will not fall lower. Resistance is the price point that the security may rise to, but will have difficulty exceeding. Sometimes, certain stocks tend to trade within the range created by these two levels, cycling between them with patterns that can be predicted. These are commonly referred to as channeling, wave, oscillating or cycling stocks. [Read more…]
The scientific community has long regarded intuition as metaphysical malarkey, woo-woo pseudoscience or simply anecdotal, yet unprovable. Much of the frustration in attempting to verify its existence is the demands of science that something be repeatable, measurable and identifiable to be examined. It’s a tough concept for which to design practical experiments. [Read more…]
We are all familiar with the author who writes the chilling horror story, the musician who pens the brooding, introspective song, or the video whose photographer, rather than an presenting uplifting images, displays for us distressing ones. We need look no further than the typical evening news to see negative situations seemingly all around us. To top it off, most psychologists believe that even for the healthiest, non-pathological individuals, seventy percent of a our internal self-talk is negative. [Read more…]
Through one of my contacts, I learned that a music supervisor needed some original jazz songs for placement in a video project. It wasn’t going to be anything terribly scintillating. Simply background for a couple of scenes in a cable-TV series, as I recall. The description of what the music supervisor required essentially described instrumentals written in the “cool jazz” genre, with maybe some hints of bossa nova, as was popular in the late 1950s to early 1960s. [Read more…]
Ann Babiarz and Associates LLC is excited to announce the upcoming formation of a second mastermind group, one dedicated to jazz songwriters. This group will go live later this fall, so stay tuned for more info!
Today’s guest post is by Michael A. Babiarz who will facilitate the Jazz Songwriters Mastermind Group.
There are lots of songwriting groups around. Most of them seem to cater to the folks who pen tunes for singer-songwriters, country artists, pop stars or hip-hop wordsmiths. I like virtually any genre of music. Give me a well-performed Gregorian chant and I’ll probably start singing along. But my passion through many decades has been jazz. [Read more…]
What are your thoughts about frequency of “adjusting” your investments in your portfolio? Do you think you should constantly be doing something? As we have all heard, timing is everything, or is it?
You know you need an estate plan. And it’s good practice to protect your legacy, your family and your wishes. Whether you create a will, a trust, appropriate beneficiary designations on accounts, or some combination of the foregoing and other available tools, putting a strategy together on paper is only the first step. You need to protect that estate plan to be sure it is implemented in the manner in which you intend. [Read more…]