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This Old Marketing Farewell Episode: Sometimes the End Is a Beginning

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HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: How to Develop and Grow a Successful Podcast. It was this decision that helped me get focused on my business goals. Before that I was focused on form over function – life goals, rather than business. In DC, I met my spiritual mentor, who helped me see a need to re-pivot my goals around the function.

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The FIRE Movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) and Independent Work

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The New York Times article  How to Retire in Your 30s With $1 Million in the Bank nicely covers the " growing movement of young professionals who are intently focused on quitting their jobs forever." To have “fired” is to have achieved that goal." " As with most movements, there are different forms.

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Freelancers and the Rise of Multiple Income Sources

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A recent Freelancers Union post titled  87% of Freelancers Have Multiple Sources of Income covers the gowing trend of freelancers piecing together multiple sources of income - and even multiple careers - to meet their financial, work and lifestyle goals. This data is an example.

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Book Review: The Encore Career Handbook

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  The goal of the book is to provide these folks a guide on how to find an encore career that combines personal meaning with a social purpose - and also provides a paycheck.   The book achieves this goal.  We're always surprised in our research how few baby boomers understand their finances.

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The Car as a Mobile Office

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 The goal is to accelerate the development of Internet-connected cars. The goal was to brainstorm around how to make cars more social.   I think this overstates how quickly this will happen, but self-driving cars are definitely coming.   The picture below is from a concept van created by Mercedes.

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Book Review: How Will You Measure Your Life

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  But his new book, How Will You Measure Your Life , is a big departure from his past work.   The book focuses on how to apply business tools to improve your life. " The book contains Christensen's advice on how not to head off in the wrong direction, and consists of three sections: Finding Happiness in Your Career.

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Book Review: The Freelancers Bible

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.   Written by freelancing expert Sara Horowitz, the founder of the Freelancer's Union and a well known champion of independent worker rights, the book covers everything from how to get work to paying taxes (no easy feat for independent workers). This is much harder than most think. of independent work.