Thank you for subscribing to Daily Candi! You took the first step and now have your own personal "Navigator" to guide you through life's stormy waters. Every day you'll receive excerpts directly to your "win"-box from iVillage founder Candice Carpenter's inspirational, self-hell book "Chapters" that will provide a shining path up your dark house of cats and help you side-step the dog doo!
Fear is the space between sobriety and success. Living life to the fullest is just a stiff drink and hackneyed phrase away! You too will benefit from advice applicable only to anomie-inflicted executives. So many of us have difficult life decisions, like giving it all up to write mystery novels or grabbing the CEO slot at Lazard Freres. Sometimes you just need to hear the vodka-soaked voice of reason.
So put on your flowered bathing cap and take a dive in the pool of delusionary new age cliches. We all begin by hiking up the mountain of youth!
Today's "Candi" ponders her drive to success. Climb in:
"New York City is not a normal place to live. In most other cities, drivers are a luxury for the very rich or the very pretentious. Here, they are for the very exhausted. One friend swears he would eat peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches for an entire year if necessary to keep his driver. My own driver is an inordinately wise man - a Russian emigre who was a physician before geopolitics ripped his old chapter apart..."
