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Here's a rule of life I recently learned...  If you have to go on a vacation from your job, never go back. Don't take my word for it... Pablo Picasso wisely said,  "Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."  There is no need to compromise.  You can find whatever it is that you want from life. But here's another tip...  You have to start NOW.  Steve Jobs was right when he said, "I didn't want to be the richest man in the graveyard. " It doesn't matter if you are 18 years old or 80 years old, the arrow of time moves forward. It's not enough to just be successful.  You have to be successful while you are young enough to enjoy it. Maybe your dream is to work from Paris, because you have the ability to work from wherever you want. Maybe your dream is t...

It is becoming clear that we can grow all the food we need, and profitably, and with far fewer toxic chemicals. Conventional agriculture can shed much of its chemical use - if it wants to. What may have been be the most important agricultural study in years - was done on land owned by Iowa State University called the Marsden Farm. On 22 acres of it, beginning in 2003, researchers set up 3 plots: one replica-cated the typical Midwestern cycle of planting corn one year and then soybeans the next, along with its routine mix of chemicals. On another, they painted a 3-year cycle that included oats; the 3rd plot added a 4-year cycle and alfalfa. The results were stunning: The longer rotations produced better yields of both corn and soy, reduced the need for nitrogen fertilizer and herbicide by up to 88% reduced the amounts of toxins in groundwater 200-fold, and didn't reduce profits by a single cent. In short, there was only upside associated with the longer rotations. There was an...