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Downsizing Your Space and Your Lifestyle…Is it The Path to Happiness?

Filed under: Sizzle Snacks, Things to Ponder

Americans are upsizing everything! Bigger homes, bigger cars, bigger TV screens are looming everywhere. How big is the closetbuyers ask. Only 3 Bathrooms? My children cant possibly share!

The bigger is better phenomenon doesnt seem to be ending anytime soon. McMansions are replacing aging 40′s ranch-style homes. Rising gas prices dont seem to affect the number of Suburban on the road!

What is the cost to all of this space? Have Americans become so House used to having 1000+ square feet per person, that we have forgotten how to interact with each other? Have we forgotten how to have conversation, and are watching television on three separate big screens in three separate rooms? Has the dining room and the family meal, been replaced by microwaved food in front of the television set, or Taco Bell in the back of the Suburban on the run to soccer practice.

Has anyone stopped to consider that the decrease in family values may be correlated with the supersizing of our homes and our lifestyles? Is there any correlation between square footage and happiness? I suspect there is, but it would not be that “increased square footage” leads to “increased happiness”.

This “supersized” lifestyle is unique to the U.S. In Europe, and other countries around the world, homes are smaller, televisions are inconsequential, bathrooms are fewer, cars are fuel-efficient and conversations are plentiful. Those countries have less crime, longer lifespans and healthier lives. What have we done to ourselves? And, what can we learn from their “downsized” lives?

In a unique lifestyle, Claire Wolfe, lives in a cabin totaling 309 square feetHow is that for efficiency? Read her story and reflect on how supersizing has affected your life

I know that my next “home” will be something smaller and very “low maintenance”…nothing more challenging than changing a light bulb!

Just more food for thought on The Real Estate Sizzle. I like to keep your minds churning…

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Posted by jackie | 4 Comments » | 08.17.2007

You Are Known By The Company You Keep

Filed under: Ethics, Sizzle Snacks

If you spend much time with me, you will hear me talk about choices . Do you choose to surround yourself with people who have high standards and a good value system? Do you choose to work for a company that treats its clients with respect and is ethical in every way?

Or, do you choose to associate with friends and colleagues who have questionable ethics and excercise bad judgment, but choose to ignore it because of their perceived status in the community? Do you choose to have negative people in your life and find yourself wondering why you have a bad attitude?

In a recent post by Seth Godin, called Contagious, Seth reinforces my feeling that you CHOOSE your friends, your employer, and the people in your life.

I choose to have a positive attitude, and associate with people who are ethical and respectful. I have left companies, and relationships, over that issue. That is my choice.

Take a few minutes to think about that today. What do the choices you make in your business, and personal relationships, and your surroundings, reveal about you?

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Posted by jackie | 5 Comments » | 07.31.2007