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Looking at this home in the Peapack area of New Jersey I would guess that it was either an old restored home or a brand new aspirational home. The truth is somewhere in the middle. The MLS lists it as having been built during the 1960s. Vernon Manor is a Georgian-inspired brick manor with a slate roof on 76 acres of land (five parcels total). The property includes lawns, terraces, specimen plantings, a circulating Italian fountain, a guest/pool home, heated pool, brick and stonewalls. The main home is an elegant five bedroom with truly elegant living and dining rooms (although I’m not loving some of the window treatments). The home has a circular staircase and many beautiful windows. The library has a fireplace inlaid with plaster bas-relief, built-in cabinets, bookshelves, moldings and paneling. In the gallery, bookshelves and cabinetry hide a wet bar designed with a painted mural. The master suite includes a gallery space, master bedroom with brick fireplace, dressing area with dressing table, three closets, built-in dresser, and bath with whirlpool tub. The master sitting room has another full marble bath with steam shower. The secondary bedroom wing has two bedrooms, a gallery space, home office, plus an in-law or staff suite with kitchenette and sitting room. This estate is listed at $13.5 million (down from $15 million).

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In a small business everything depends on you, the small business owner. If you don’t have an every day enthusiasm for your business, you can’t give it to anyone else. In fact you should think of selling ou or finding a way to get that wow factor back.

Often times enthusiasm and physical energy go hand in hand. Maybe you need a real break from your business to recharge. Maybe you have a health problem. Have it look at. You would be surprised what a tiny exercise can do for your outlook. I could go on, but you get the idea.

I worked for the General Electric information Services Company for 8 years. When I was interviewing for my next job in the IT industry someone asked me why I stayed with them for so long. The answer was easy. Each day was a unique challenge. I went on to other IT organizations, but I never found one that offered the broad range of challenges I found at GE.

The moral of the story is that each of us must be in the right business to maintain our enthusiasm for that endeavor. I wouldn’t be good selling personal hardware. It offers no broad range of challenges. I know, it bored me. So, if yo haven’t got the wow and don’t have any outside issues, find something that gives you that wow. At that point you can pass it on to others.

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Want to know how much your time is worth and where you spend it?  Personal computer Fare Meter works like a taxicab meter for your working life.  From the website:

Clocks your time, what you’ve been working on and adds up how much $ you should charge clients

• No need to remember what you were doing, automatically records your activities on the personal.
• You don’t want to spend more time managing your time. Auto move automatically moves your activities into the correct projects.
• Useful later on when you’ve too many projects and need to separate them into groups.
• Saves each minute so you won’t lose things if computer/software fails. Keeps several backups of the file if the save was corrupted.
• Project Hot keys to swiftly move things to another project.
• Export to .csv or .xml, import from xml.
• Projects can be restored in case one is accidentally deleted.

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