Life by Design

Forget Job Security - Take ownership and design a better life The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember:  Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career! — Earl Nightingale For better or worse, the days of having a steady income at a 9–5 job for decades are dying. Entrepreneurs and freelancers understand this more than anyone. Creating your own career naturally leads to defining your own day to day activities and creating a workable, scalable plan for your retirement years. Because those later years depend so heavily on the financial decisions you make now, your career choices carry a heavy weight. Richie Norton recommends you ponder over these questions and self-reflect to change how you get paid in life. — When do you get up in the morning? Why? — When do you come home? Why? — If you had a different job…you...

George - The 140 Year old Lobster George  (hatched approximately 1869) is an  American lobster  owned briefly by the City Crab and Seafood restaurant in  New York City . Captured in December 2008, he was released back into the wild in January 2009. George weighed 20 pounds (9.1 kg), and has an estimated age of 140 years. George was captured off the coast of  Newfoundland  in December 2008,  and sold to the City Crab and Seafood restaurant in  Park Avenue South  for $100.  He arrived at the restaurant on New Year's Eve.  Keith Valenti, the restaurant manager, said that "We never intended him to be sold, just draw attention to the restaurant, and he did." Instead, the lobster had been "sitting in the restaurant's tank and acting as a sort of mascot";  Valenti explained that "we bought a big lobster, started taking pictures with kids and it worked out real well".  George was given his name by a young patron of the...