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Oh, Mexico: A Burned-Out CEO Turns a Ranch into a Retreat

Success

Since the hotel’s 2009 opening, the area has thrived, building off of Harper’s mission. An ethnobotanical garden thriving with native plants and a biodiverse arroyo garden supply produce to the hotel’s restaurants (Botánica, CENTRO Café and KAHAL). “I fell in love with the area. I fell in love with the people.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

Success

I started doing this in July of 2009 and it has created the most magical year of my life. I just started my own business, and I want to evaluate my income versus my expenses to see where I am currently, with the ultimate goal of hitting the salary I want to make. Listen to a motivational CD on the way to work. Keep friends close.

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Want to Change Career? What Does It Take?

Job Advice Blog

A career change is a radical change–for example, an executive with a finance background who buys a restaurant, or a manager at AT&T, a very well-known communications company, who shifts into managing an adult community or a nursing home. Let’s make sure we understand that I’m not referring to a job change.

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New Small Business Startup Idea: Virtual Import/Export Assistant.

The Small Business Blog

One of the obstacles I came up against was that I had to order wine in serious ‘bulk’ I naively thought I could order a couple of cases from a few hand picked wine farms and start my ’small business’ by selling these cases to restaurants, gaining trust and loyalty and slowly building up a customer base.

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 13 January, 2009 Is it that time of the year already? Thanks for the help Maura January 13, 2009 Patricia Robb said. January 13, 2009 Anonymoussaid. January 19, 2009 Patricia Robb said. ▼ 2009 (58) ► December (5) Office Confidential: Just for fun to start your Ne.

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Free Blog Posts | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Dave Doolin ( @websiteweekend ) December 7, 2009 at 3:25 am I think you nailed it. Reply Fran Civile ( @francivile ) December 7, 2009 at 4:48 am Dave Doolin says: “Fortunately for me, I’m not in it to get rich, it’s simply a way to establish public credibility and build my own intellectual property portfolio.&# What do you think?

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