OPERATION FRESH START

You might be one of the hard-working millions who lost your job in '08/'09 and the hiring prospects are bleak. Or, you are weary of your work-day life and need a change to fuel your soul, jump start your heart, feed your mind.

Ask yourself:
1. do you really want to continue in your present field?
2. do you want to work for someone else?
3. can you morph your current experience/interests into a new business opportunity OR can you apply your experience/interests to embark on a more adventurous/suitable career?

If you answered 'yes' to any one of these questions, then you are ready to embrace the philosophy of COOL VENTURES:

Work=Play/Passion Into Profit

Why work another day in your life, when you can do something you love?
Find your passion and figure out how to get paid to pursue it.

There are 3 steps to Operation Fresh Start:

1. Make a list of your skills/talents
2. Make a list of your interests/hobbies/passions/loves
3. Find the points of intersection in lists 1. and 2.

For example,
in 1. you list "management skills" and
in 2. you list that
you are "passionate about golf"--

For 3., consider this formula:
"management skills" + "passionate about golf"
=
your new career:
~event planner for golf tournaments
~charity pro-golf organizer
~manage a golf club at a resort
~work with corporations to sponsor golf tournaments

Here's another example:
1. you have "sales, people skills"
2. you "love the outdoors/hate being cramped up/love to travel"
3. your alternative career/pursuit might be:
~small biz vendor at beach selling food/renting chairs/renting surfboards
~air brushed tattoo artist (no experience needed) on a cruise ship
~tour organizer for a major travel firm

Another example:
1. "computer skills/ web whiz"
2. "love flexible hours/seek independence"
3. your potential career or new small business might be:
~consultant to small to medium sized businesses re: web needs/
software upgrades/blogs/podcasts, etc.

Your turn,
1. make a list of your skills, talents, life/work experience
2. make a list of your passions/interests/desires/goals
3. find options/similarities/connections in lists 1. and 2.
Translate them into a new small business for yourself or a new
Cool Venture career.

You might not want to start your own independently-owned
small business, but you can still have a COOL VENTURE~
take your current work experience and bring it to a
cool company that will help you express yourself, be yourself
and have fun every day.

This blog will explore options, directions, and opportunities to
help you live the $$$$-making life you crave & need.

ANDRE & COQUELINE COURREGES: A MINI HOMAGE TO MY HEROES

Two of my heroes, Andre & Coqueline Courrèges, have been rocking their Cool Venture since the Sixties.

Geometric & Space-Age design

Genius Andre Courrèges is the most plagiarized designer of his era. After M. Courrèges introduced his Space Age designs in 1964, the fashion world attempted to copy his
angular plastic skirts and jackets, crash helmets, white boots, goggle accessories, to name just a few concepts.

That Andre Courrèges studied to be a civil engineer might account for his revolutionary expression: boxy silhouette styling.
The clothes are triangles, trapezoids and squares in white/silver/aqua/orange/pink.

(Visionary Coqueline is driving the EXE, one of her many EV concepts.)

His clean, uncluttered couture captivated the fashion world, especially France, where he created the miniskirt.
Couture Future was born.


Fashion wasn't the only genre he conquered. Courrèges created some of the most enchanting fragrances of all time.

He and his wife, Coqueline, were two of the first eco-preneurs: The Maison de Courrèges, the fashion house run by André and Coqueline is a long-time
promoter of EVs, using them in fashion shows since 1969.

André and Coqueline Courrèges have produced a third fully-functional EV prototype, the Zooop, a lightweight car that can go 450 km (about 280 miles) per charge and uses "Lithium Polymer batteries that are lighter, have greater power density don't overheat, charge quicker and offer many more recharges" and can reach speeds of 180 km/h (about 112 mph), according to Gizmag.

The EXE is the second prototype of the electric car realized by Coqueline Courrèges , who has chosen lithium-ion for its performance.
Battery voltage: 370V
Battery capacity: 149 A/h