At the end of our monthly experts dinner last night, I asked Regena Thomashauer if she could give me one piece of advice that everyone could use to put more pleasure into their lives. With stress levels running high -- and the holiday season about to add to it -- I find it important to find some pleasure in every day.

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I just received a wonderful -- and quite complimentary -- e-mail from Judith Fox, author of the new book I Still Do: Loving and Living with Alzheimer's, about an article that we ran with her in Bottom Line/Health.

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When I was young, I always planned on writing a book... once I figured out what my message was to the world. At long last, I have finally started working on mine. I am writing it with my husband's ex-wife on how to blend families (Bob and Sally have the most successful divorce I know of, and we really are one big, happy, extended family).

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Medical device inventor David Phillips, (he received the Inventor of the Year Award in 1986 for the Infrared ear thermometer) said something very interesting to me recently. "Thoughts have great power. So if you have a thought that's not going to lead you to where you want to go, you have to pull it." David called this "pulling weeds." While this is so important, a lot of people find it difficult to just stop thinking about some things.

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"Why don't you become a plumber?" is not the career advice I'd ever imagine giving to my children. Yet it's exactly what trend-watcher Arnold Brown, chairman of the trends consulting firm Weiner Edrich Brown, advised when I saw him recently.

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