Archive for March, 2012

10 Reasons Not To Retire Early? Uh-Oh!

Tweet I always get a kick out of the financial and personal advice given in mainstream financial and business magazines such as Money, Kiplinger, and Forbes.  The advice can usually be paraphrased as “Here is how to do things 3% better than the average thoughtless drone sitting in the cubicle next to you.” **  And [...]

MacLeod’s Company Hierarchy And The Corporate Conscious

Tweet This is picture of Hugh MacLeod’s interpretation of a company hierarchy.  It’s accuracy breeds sadness.  Once the hierarchy is understood, it becomes clear why most large companies end up as the same sad soul-crushing environment. It turns out, the standard corporate environment isn’t due to poor  or evil leadership – it’s just an undeniable [...]

Using The BNL Core Principles : Cartoon Edition – Bicycling To Work

Tweet After wrapping up my “Core Principles” series, I thought it might be fun to follow up some articles on how certain lifestyle examples of the Brave New Life (BNL) can be explained to the common cubicle dweller, since we all deal with them.  In doing so, I came up with the idea to add a [...]

Core Principle #6: This Is Water

Tweet This is the last of the core principles of the Brave New Life.  It’s also the most important. The Brave New Life is about awareness – awareness of your self, awareness of your environment, and awareness of your thoughts.  It’s about living a deliberate life, making deliberate decisions, and having deliberate thoughts.  I could [...]