I must make a confession that I have been studying a book that I never would have picked up a month ago. I say study because I've been pouring over it and am finding it helpful and fun as I start to reclarify my goals. Do I dare to say I'm reading (okay, you can choke now) The Success Principles by Jack Canfield? (Yes, that Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame.) No, I couldn't possibly post the inane book jacket, especially because you'll never beat a path to my door again if I do.

I found this book when I was searching for Small Business Marketing for Dummies online. I put on hold a bunch of marketing books (trying to get Ken's new business off the ground) and added The Success Principles for the hell of it. An hour later, I cancelled the hold, but, by some quirk of fate, the librarian placed it in my hands anyway.

And worst of all, I hate to admit to myself that I really love it. It's written by an egomaniac, but his exercises and ideas are finally moving me through the morass I've been in these last months. I had been feeling that because we need for me to earn a lot more money, I can't do what I most want to do with my life. But I know now I just can't live that way. And I'm off!

Don't worry, the Jack Canfield stage will be short-lived, and I'll never mention him ever again. But if you're a goal-oriented person (which I am), and you've steered yourself way off course, as a last resort you might want to take a peek sometime when you've got nothing better to do.