Archive for January, 2010

You know, I feel good inaugurating this “new” endeavor! Years ago, when first in business for myself, before the Internet (remember I’m 70), I wrote an occasional print newsletter and sent it out to clients and friends. I loved capturing ideas, thoughts and feelings that would inspire people to reflect on how they could be more effective in life.

Since I’m at an age where I find myself going to memory lane more and more, and enjoying the journey, I pulled out one of those early newsletters. Things haven’t changed much. I’m realizing that this is not actually such a “new” endeavor. In the January 1989 issue I’m inviting people to take the new energy that always surrounds the New Year and to take themselves lightly and do more of what they really want to do. Twenty-one years later, in January 2010, it’s not a newsletter, but a book and a website that make the same exhortation in a different way, Why NOT do what you love!

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During this year and this process of putting pen to paper about what matters to me, I’m finding I’ve become more clear in three areas.

First, I have come to more fully appreciate the life I’ve lived doing what I have loved. I’ve felt privileged to have been a Peace Corps volunteer, a public school teacher, a National Park Ranger, a founding principal of my own management consulting and training practice, and a leader coach (30 of those professional years as Martha Spice).

Second, it has been a healing journey to bring to life my belief that doing more of what we love is good for us and good for those others with whom we share the planet. This book you’re holding in your hand is a personal milestone for me. Having arrived at this milestone, I’m newly aware that I’ve had too much fun to stop here. Therefore, I’m assuring that the title question will continue to live through its own website www.whynotdowhatyoulove.com.

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