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Today’s grand estate is located in Malvern, a small town that was once the end of the Mail Line railroad in Pennsylvania. Today’s home is located on a quiet country road and expands over 19 acres. The six-bedroom home has an original part that dates back to 1755 but had a major addition six years ago. There are 40 rooms total including a home theater, a massive kitchen, hand-carved Parisian paneled living room and a billiards room in over 18,500 square feet. The grounds include a pool, tennis court, pond and there is a beautiful terrace that looks out over rolling green lawns. This home is listed at $10.5 million.

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Baby Boomers: July is a great time to take stock of your personal and business life. Although it is not the traditional time to do this, it’s perfect as a mid-year stock-taking and possible course correction.

Being a “words” person, I got hung up on looking for the derivation of the term “taking stock.” I found some stuff about livestock, counting sheep, I guess. The term implies counting your assets and liabilities.

July a is a quiet time (unless you’re selling patio furniture or fishing supplies). Many people are on vacation, and business is a little slower. The pace will pick up in August/September, after the kids go back to school, so take a few minutes now to reflect.

Over the next few days, I’ll give you some quotes to help you think/reflect/take stock. I’ll have some thoughts to go along with them, of course.

Today, from Talmudic sage Hillel:

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? Yes, if I am for myself alone, what good am I? And if not now — when?

To me, this saying implies balance, which is very important to me. Balancing our own wishes and desires (being selfish) with considering the wishes and desires of others (being unselfish and giving) is vital to a meaningful life. We can’t live just for ourselves. And we can’t live just for others. Finding the balance is often difficult. We all need both Yin and Yang.

How do you find that balance in your life? What could you do over the next few months to get some inner/outer balance in your life?

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A friend of mine who runs a health care practice just got a letter telling him to report for jury duty. He’s in a solo practice and any day he isn’t working is a day when he makes no money. He is married, with one child, and his wife doesn’t work (outside the home, that is.)

What should he do? He wants to send a letter trying to get out of jury duty. I know you can get one waiver, but I’m not sure if you can get off totally.

I do know that many people who are called only show up for one day, they don’t get put on a jury, and they have the ability to go home. But what if this guy were picked to be on a jury?

Here are the possibilities:

A: Write the letter asking to be “permanently” excused from jury duty.

B: Write asking to be excused this time but state you’ll make arrangements to have someone cover your practice or re-arrange your schedule to be gone for a day or more.

C: Show up and plead your case for being excused from a lengthy trial. The benefit to this option is that you’ve fulfilled your obligation with minimal disruption of your practice/life.

Other options? What do you think? Your comments/suggestions would be helpful.

Tags: baby boomers, jury duty, small businesses

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In the previous PYW Asks, I asked readers this question:

Would you do your job even if you weren’t paid to do it? If not, are there any aspects of your job that you would do without pay?

Here are some answers from other Pimp Your Work readers:

According to Lex, this is a tough topic. “I work at office on a commercial project and without compensation surely I won’t be there any more.”  However, Lex works on open source projects in his spare time - projects that he doesn’t mind not being compensated for.

Hantulga also shares the same sentiment over ‘passion projects’, but it depends on the job.  “I would rather gain some experience from any kind of job.”

I asked a friend the same question, and her answer depended greatly on her line of work - which is sales.  “Being in sales, you bring profit to the company.  It would be unfair to think that you’re bringing in money and not getting paid for it.”

As for me, although I have the ability to select which projects to undertake and I like all of my jobs, there are some gigs I would pay less attention to than others, if I wasn’t getting paid for any of them.  I actually own a blog without any intention of income (Frugal Pinoy), but since I’d still blog there even without the money, it means I really like it that much.  However, since I’d still need to make a living, I’d probably look for an substitute source of income if I couldn’t make money blogging - leaving me with less time to actually blog.

How about you?  Would you still do your job even if you weren’t paid for it?

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 Now that it’s July, it’s time to recap some of the posts in Pimp Your Work last June:

• Overproductive
• Stop being a control freak
• Batch processing can make you more productive
• 7 things to do when teammates don’t learn
• The customer is always right (really?!)
• Your career path: straight ahead or anything goes?

Elsewhere in the blogosphere:

• Decluttering your digital workspace
• Dealing with being the lone instruct wolf in the office
• How to ease your way back into the workweek
• Is your workplace results oriented or time oriented?
• How to find productivity tools to help get your job done
• Evaluating your digital tools
• Is the paperless office possible?

Now, let’s move on to more of Pimp Your Work this July!
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