A New Beginning

Hello All and Welcome to my new adventure. Please join me in getting younger, smarter, thinner, faster, and better, every day from here on.

I have been struggling for quite awhile now regarding the direction my life should take. I have been doing TONS of reading - books, eBooks, blogs, online articles, you name it, trying to decide what to be when I grow up. If you saw my resume (maybe I'll post it some time), you would realize that I have already been many things from a Research Chemist, to a Craft Designer, to an IT Director (and briefly a CIO), to currently unemployed (you gotta love outsourcing). You get the idea. A proverbial Jack-of-all-Trades, Master-of-None! Except maybe the unemployed thing - I seem to be getting pretty good at that one to the great dismay of my creditors. One of my biggest issues is ADD and how quickly my mind flits from one thing to the next but I'll save that topic for another time.

Suddenly, as I was reading an article online, I read a word that triggered that Eureka! moment and I was inspired to drop everything and create this blog. So I did! Some of you may already know what The Streth Zone is and some of you may be able to figure it out intuitively. For those of you scratching your heads, this may be just what you need. The Stretch Zone is the place where you stretch yourself. Relax, I'm not asking you to get off the couch or step away from your computer. At least not yet. You get to decide if that's how you stretch. I'm not even asking you to move a muscle or exercise in the traditional sense - again, that will be your decision.

What I am asking you to do, is open your mind to new things - new habits, new ideas, new ways of thinking. It really will make you younger. I'll be explaining more about all of this very soon so please stay tuned. Bookmark this blog and come back for some things that will change your life!

See you soon!

Ann

P.S. To view the article that ignited this adventure, click the picture at the top of this post. You may need to register with the NYTimes.com to access the article after May 5, 2008 but registration is free and well worth the effort.

To purchase the books mentioned in the article, click one of the links below.

The Open Mind: Using Your Native Intelligence to Learn Faster and Communicate More Effectively