With your career in full swing, you’re busy, you’re running around all over the country, sometimes, all over the world, your schedule is ridiculously unpredictable. One moment you’re totally excited, the next, you’re nervous and stressed out, the next, you’re catching up on sleep, the next, “Wait, what city am I in? What time zone is it?”

When you finally get a moment of actual FREE time, you want to connect with your friends and family. You want to share your highs and lows with them. But if you call them now, they’re at work. Or asleep. Or, huh? You got them on the phone, but they don’t really seem that interested in what you have to say! In fact, they actually sound irritated with you—and while you want to tell them all about this amazing experience you’ve just had, they want to talk about their job that’s exactly the same as the last time you talked to them? The silly thing their kids just did? The dog?

Wha????

What happened to your number one supporter? Why are they so annoyed? Don’t they GET that this is what you’ve worked all your life for and you want to share it with them?

The problem? Your friendship just became one-sided…

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Bill Gates with Matthew Bishop:

The Business of Giving

In a rare special appearance at 92Y, Bill Gates discusses his extraordinary career in business and philanthropy with Matthew Bishop of The Economist as part of his “The Business of Giving” series.

Save 25% on tickets with code EM25.

www.92Y.org/BillGates

(If this sounds like something you’d enjoy, you’ll LOVE this: http://www.lifebeyondcelebrity.com/giving-why-to-make-it-public/ ~Rebecca )

Michael Jackson’s memorial service ended a few minutes ago and besides the tears and the laughter that I am grateful to have been able to share with everyone else who was watching it on TV or present in the Staples Center in LA, I was reminded, in such a poignant way, why I do what I do for a living… (more…)

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Check it out this Memorial Day and receive THREE very special BONUSES!

Enjoy!

Rebecca

Charitable giving must be in the air. Last night, a colleague and I were talking about one of the main benefits of earning lots and lots of money was how fun it would be to give a whole lot of it away. Then, this morning, I received an article about an award a friend received for her extensive charitable giving in the town where she lives. (more…)

Ah…The eternal question!

The other night, I was surfing the net and read an article about how Jack Benny not only never put a fence around his home, but that he’d even, occasionally, answer the door when his fans would come up the walk and ring the bell. Seems unheard of in this day and age, with stalkers and obsessed fans out there. But it does pose an interesting question. Two, actually:

1)      What’s the difference (to you) between a “fan” and any other (non-fan) person you would meet?

2)      How close do you let ANYBODY get to you? (Or: What’s your inner circle criteria?) (more…)