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Meet the Christmas Tree Farmers Keeping the Spirit of Christmas Alive

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It’s a scene straight out of a holiday movie: A family travels to an idyllic farm to cut down their own Christmas tree and spends the day walking the rows, making wreaths and sipping hot cocoa. We loved the idea of farming Christmas trees and giving our children that lifestyle.” They’ve filmed several holiday films on the property.

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How to Handle Haters: Advice from 3 Resilient Entrepreneurs

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If your decisions about a career move, relocation, lifestyle or relationship mean your loved ones refuse to support you, even threaten to leave your life, the road ahead of you can be a long one. After I retired, my wife and family wanted me to take a predictable, boring agency job. Bruce Cameron. The pushback was all around.

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The New Migrant Workers: "Workampers", "Vanlifers" and Digital Nomads

Small Business Labs

The new migrants are often choosing this as a lifestyle or doing it to supplement their retirement.   Mostly older, workampers are often workamping to fund or augment their retirement. retirement system have shifted responsibility for saving from the employer to the worker, exacerbating the nation’s rich-poor divide.

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Do You Know Your Lifestyle Ratios?

Stephanie LH Calahan

It might be fun to come up with a few lifestyle ratios to help you measure and move toward your personal goals.  In the example below, this person is well on their way to retiring. Assuming a 5-day work week, there are about 250 working days in a year, not including about 10 holidays. Your Lifestyle Goals.

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What Being Pregnant During the Pandemic Taught Me About Cultivating Contentment

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Where happiness can often be situational or conditional (I’ll be so happy once I get a raise, I’m always happiest when the whole family is together, I would be so happy if I could just retire and travel the world), contentment is feeling fulfilled with one’s current circumstances regardless of what else is happening.

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Planning your job search

Practically Perfect PA

An entirely new role or lifestyle. Job satisfaction Loss of pension, paid holiday and other benefits. ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE (CHARITY WORK, VOLUNTARY WORK, RETIREMENT). A new lifestyle Stress and pressure of relocating your life. Firstly, it’s important to think about why you’ve decided to look for a job.

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Uncorking the Dream: Founding Ampersand Estates in Australia’s Wine Country

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From humble beginnings Although owning this idyllic locale may look like second nature to her now, Bell didn’t always have an easy time navigating an affluent lifestyle. These travels were far from the luxurious holiday most people imagine when they hear destinations such as Paris and Venice. Like, when the guy came, what did I do?

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