I stay "in-tune" and connected with my LifeWork (this blogging platform and advocating for career development) by ...

1. ... maintaining a very short list of the key words that describe my LifeWork, and
   
2. ... creating a Google alert (GA) for variations of the key words in that list. I will get emails when someone writes about my key words. Here is a list of my GAs, and
   
3. ... finding Wikipedia articles about aspects my LifeWork (like career development, etc) and adding them to my Wikipedia watchlist, then making a note in my calendar to review my watchlist periodically, and
   
4. ... periodically sending out short notes (Tweets are a maximum of 140 characters) to my several networks.

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1. 6/21/09 -abc "Pink slips become permission slips"

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Welcome to LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) .

The LWPS Team seeded this - your personal - blog with this post so that you could see it when you clicked on "Your Blog" in the far upper left corner of this webpage.

Please read this post about "Why is creating lifework/career planning posts in my personal blog so important?".

To create another post, just click the "Post a new entry" link in the upper left corner of this post above the iconic silhouetted image with the question mark "?". (More about creating posts.)

Please COPY this post to your personal blog and tell us how you found LWPS and what you hope to get out of it.

This is your post to do with as you please or to leave it as it is. When you are ready, just click the "Edit" link below and make any changes you wish.

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Click Getting started with your LWPS account. here or in your Brief Description box to the right.

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 (Here is the original source for this post. Here is a list of all seeds. Check back, it may have changed.)

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Welcome to LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) .

The LWPS Team seeded this - your personal - blog with this post so that you could see it when you clicked on "Your Blog" in the far upper left corner of this webpage.

Please read this post about "Why is creating lifework/career planning posts in my personal blog so important?".

To create another post, just click the "Post a new entry" link in the upper left corner of this post above the iconic silhouetted image with the question mark "?". (More about creating posts.)

Please COPY this post to your personal blog and tell us how you found LWPS and what you hope to get out of it.

This is your post to do with as you please or to leave it as it is. When you are ready, just click the "Edit" link below and make any changes you wish.

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Click Getting started with your LWPS account. here or in your Brief Description box to the right.

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 (Here is the original source for this post. Here is a list of all seeds. Check back, it may have changed.)

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Welcome to LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) .

The LWPS Team seeded this - your personal - blog with this post so that you could see it when you clicked on "Your Blog" in the far upper left corner of this webpage.

Please read this post about "Why is creating lifework/career planning posts in my personal blog so important?".

To create another post, just click the "Post a new entry" link in the upper left corner of this post above the iconic silhouetted image with the question mark "?". (More about creating posts.)

Please COPY this post to your personal blog and tell us how you found LWPS and what you hope to get out of it.

This is your post to do with as you please or to leave it as it is. When you are ready, just click the "Edit" link below and make any changes you wish.

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Click Getting started with your LWPS account. here or in your Brief Description box to the right.

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 (Here is the original source for this post. Here is a list of all seeds. Check back, it may have changed.)

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Welcome to LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) .

The LWPS Team seeded this - your personal - blog with this post so that you could see it when you clicked on "Your Blog" in the far upper left corner of this webpage.

Please read this post about "Why is creating lifework/career planning posts in my personal blog so important?".

To create another post, just click the "Post a new entry" link in the upper left corner of this post above the iconic silhouetted image with the question mark "?". (More about creating posts.)

Please COPY this post to your personal blog and tell us how you found LWPS and what you hope to get out of it.

This is your post to do with as you please or to leave it as it is. When you are ready, just click the "Edit" link below and make any changes you wish.

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 (Here is the original source for this post. Here is a list of all seeds. Check back, it may have changed.)

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5/26/09 - Managing Imperfect Resumes - with this great reader comment "Jack Hill wrote:You’re fighting the wrong battle. If you are relying on key words or other tricks to get noticed, you’ve already lost. You should be getting in the door with personal contacts and recommendations — via LinkedIn or off-line means. Then it’s “Oh, by the way, we need a resume for the file.” The deal should be closed before they even take a look. That’s how CEOs and other big fish operate. Relying on HR people, or their systems to pick you out of an ocean of resumes is like playing the lottery.".

When you have a thought that you want to preserve, journal it ("ink it" either on paper or computer) then "link it" so you can easily find it again.¹ 

Journaling captures your thoughts so they become real for you and so you can review them later and reflect upon what is important to you before, now and maybe in the future.

But you must be able to find related thoughts so it is equally important that you "link" your thoughts via tags, and hyperlinks in your blog and indices and table of contents in either your blog or your paper journal.  

Click on the "journaling" tag below for more posts about this important topic.

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¹ I got the idea for the phrase "Think it, ink it, link it" from a similar phrase "Think it, ink it" from this page in the Higher Awareness website.

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Welcome to LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) .

The LWPS Team seeded this - your personal - blog with this post so that you could see it when you clicked on "Your Blog" in the far upper left corner of this webpage.

Please read this post about "Why is creating lifework/career planning posts in my personal blog so important?".

To create another post, just click the "Post a new entry" link in the upper left corner of this post above the iconic silhouetted image with the question mark "?". (More about creating posts.)

Please COPY this post to your personal blog and tell us how you found LWPS and what you hope to get out of it.

This is your post to do with as you please or to leave it as it is. When you are ready, just click the "Edit" link below and make any changes you wish.

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Click Getting started with your LWPS account. here or in your Brief Description box to the right.

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Gail passed away peacefully this morning, April 26, 2009, at 6:10.

She was fighting congestion during the night and the antibiotics did not help. She was unconscious and unresponsive when she died, so I will conclude that she was not in pain or distress and did not suffer. (Certainly the way I wish to go.)

She had decided to donate her body for education purposes¹ and after a year or two I will receive her cremated remains.

Gail did not want a service or any special treatment. I was going to help her compose her obituary, but we never got started. So I will devote this post ( http://lifeworkps.com/hubbard/weblog/3965.html ) on my personal blog to collecting our thoughts about Gail.

This will be a work-in-progress, so please bookmark and return often to see how it develops. Please help me by sending me a note with anything you wish me to add or correct.

Gail Elizabeth Hubbard 10/16/1944 – 4/26/2009

Gail was born October 19, 1944, in Brunswick, Maine, the second of five children of Harrison Weston and Elizabeth Swanton Hubbard (both deceased). Gail is survived by her son Mark Aaron Solook, his wife Becky and their daughter Blake Solook of Alvin, Texas; her older brother Harrison Peter Hubbard and three (3) younger brothers John, James and Joseph Hubbard, five step-brothers and sisters (Mike, Jan, Kitty, Ruth and Bill Jolly), several cousins -- including Sue Hartman in Cumberland Center, Maine; members of the Carl Bartlett "Bart" Swanton family in Maine; and Gustavo Rivera, MD, a long-time friend now working at NIH.

Gail lived in Red Bank, NJ; Sturbridge, MA; and Jamesburg, NJ, until she met and married John Solook, whom she later divorced. ... She graduated from Douglass College in New Brunswick, NJ, with a BA degree in library science, and taught [ junior high ?] mathematics [ in Connecticut ? ] for a short time. Gail loved to sing whether with a choir² or as a soloist; had a delightful sense of humor; and cherished time spent in the past 8 years on the Maine coast at Mere Point, near Brunswick.

Gail’s greatest accomplishment in her final ten (10) years was the creation and maintenance of two Yahoo support groups³ (mailing lists) dedicated to one of the several diseases she suffered. Her proudest moment was when she was able to convince a group of doctors to reference her groups at a conference.

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¹Humanity Gifts Registrar (HGR) has selected Temple Medical School in Philadelphia to receive Gail's gift of her body.

²While at college (Pete at Rutgers, New Brunswick), Gail and Pete sang in the community college and shared a profoundly moving experience singing Brahm's German Requiem at the request of Eugene Ormandy (Philadeplhia Orchestra) in the Philadelphia Concert Hall a week after President Kennedy was assasinated. The program was videotaped and shown to the world.

³Panniculitis Support group at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/panniculitis/ and the InternationalMesentericPanniculitisSociety.  Please read this eulogy post from one of the many friends Gail had nurtured in these support groups. There are several others in the Messages section that you may wish to read.