Category Archives: Passion

The art of living what you love

August 25, 2008 – 1:48 pm

A recent question from one of our readers made us think about the way temperament interacts with living what you love. Mia is a trained artist who wants to make a living as a painter and sculptor but she has no idea how to go about marketing herself. She feels shy and unconnected to the [...]

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Living what you love in Vermont

July 17, 2008 – 9:11 am

Bob is a seventh-generation Vermonter. Our son Jesse was born and raised in Vermont. The house we built by ourselves is nestled into some of the state’s prettiest green hills. Yep, our Vermont roots run deep. It’s a small state and we’ve known some of its best artists and craftspeople forever. So when we began [...]

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The Hidden Kitchen

July 14, 2008 – 3:44 pm

People always ask us how we find the energy to start new businesses but for us, it’s just not work. It’s a way to experience new pleasures every day. We were in Boston just the other week following up on a lead for some tropical dried flowers to sell in our on-line store. As [...]

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Top 10 Clues that You Need to Change Jobs

June 25, 2008 – 10:37 am

10. You don’t like your boss.
9. You know you aren’t performing to the best of your ability.
8. Your values don’t match those of your company.
7. You wake up Monday morning and dread going to work.
6. You’re fed up with office politics.
5. You don’t enjoy your co-workers.
4. You’re always complaining about your job to family and [...]

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Digging deep

June 23, 2008 – 4:25 pm

Mud season is Vermont’s way of welcoming spring. Every year when the snows melt, the ground here turns to, well, mud—thick, gloppy mud that lasts for weeks. Mud season lasted even longer than usual this year so our gardening has gotten off to a late start. We share a vegetable garden with our neighbors. We [...]

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Bob Acquires a New Passion

June 17, 2008 – 9:35 am

When you live what you love, you find that the boundaries between work and fun are no longer separated by a clean line. You end up adding your own passion to everything you do. And that makes for a life full of unexpected pleasures!

 
Here’s an example. We’ve always loved being retailers but we’ve never had [...]

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How do you know when it’s time for change?

June 3, 2008 – 10:39 am

It’s pretty easy to see the value of changing course if you’re doing something you’ve always hated. But it’s harder to let go of something you once enjoyed or even loved.
We just heard from a reader who’s wanted to be a writer ever since she was a little girl. Or at least, that’s what she [...]

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Open For Business

May 15, 2008 – 5:17 am

Never in a million years did we dream that we’d once again be launching a new retail store—and online, to boot! After all, our focus over the past few years has been on our restaurants, our books, and on communicating our Live What You Love message. But here we are, starting a brand-new business and [...]

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