Life as a new business owner is much the same as a steamy and passionate embrace between you and your new lover as your car disengages from park and rolls over the edge of Lookout Mountain. It's an odd blend of the excitement of exploring new and unfamiliar territory mixed with the feelings of utter...

I just finished creating an independent film.   If it sells, great.  If it doesn’t, that’s okay.   Why?  Because I am a full time artist who doesn’t need to worry about money.  No, I am not a rich or famous artist.   I am an ordinary wom...

OK, this is my very first blog. My name is Mike Kravinsky. I don't know if president is too strong a word for what this is. Let's just say I'm the  web site operator of NextNik.com, The site for what's next in our lives and in the world. Personally, I started this site because I'm getting close...

Welcome to my first blog as your resident “Nextnik” life coach!  My name is Kendell Anderson, and I coach successful men and women to “live (their lives) by design, not by default.”   Most of my clients are already successful– professionally and personally, an...

The interesting thing is that everything you learn in college doesn’t apply whatsoever to the “real world.” People always said that to me, but I never realized it until I actually experienced it. They don’t teach you in college how to find and utilize your passion. They don&r...

By Mike Kravinsky

Is there something you did in the early '60's that you are just now being recognized for? Loraine Rudolph is finding out what that's like.

 

I know a little bit about failure as most people do when the hit their 40s.   I had a double whammy effect of failure, though. My marriage and my company failed in the same week.   The company was a publicly held one that was well known in its time.  No, not Lehman Brothers, but Pets....