This phrase: “Turning a Corner” keeps coming to me.

It’s a new year.  2013. It’s a time of fresh starts.  We didn’t go over the fiscal cliff (or did we, really).  Maybe had they called it a fiscal corner we wouldn’t have rolled our eyes, and stock portfolio?

Cover via Amazon

Personally, I am turning a corner also.  I have been unemployed since March 2011.  Gad- that’s a long time.  That’s regular work, paycheck work.  It doesn’t mean that every day hasn’t been full and productive. I’ve been reading,… a lot.  The usual suspects: Joel Goldsmith (of course), newspapers, Facebook, LinkedIn, Monster + other job-site search engines.  I just finished a great little book that popped off the shelf at Powells Books. It’s called A Family Place by Charles Gaines.

the little book

Gaines writes about the little cottage he, Mrs. Gaines, and their grown twenty something kids build in Nova Scotia.  I should say, the wilds of Nova Scotia.  He, in fact, turns a corner.  He realizes the money, the fame, and the social life he earned as a semi-famous author and screenplay writer have taken from him, the family world he had before all that fame.  His marriage in shambles, his kids off in the wide-world.  He turns a corner, wakes-up, and finds his life restored by the land, the act of building a small house together, and the spirit of renewal.  I loved this book.  I think you will too.

So, enjoy the next leg of the 90-degree turn.  You can always turn again, and again….to get back where you started.

Turn the corner!