February 2010
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Friday Wrap-Up: The Self-Love & Productivity Edition
Hello, Hello! I hope everyone’s week has been phenomenal and filled with beautiful experiences. Here’s a little link love to round out your Friday afternoon. Kill Busywork: The One Skill To Focus On What Matters – Is your life filled with busywork? Learn how to nip that unproductive time in a bud. Finish The Projects [...]
What Does Leadership Mean To You?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. – John Quincy Adams I had lunch with a former colleague the other day and when I asked him about how things were going at work he launched into a story about how his manager – [...]
How To Make The Best of Job You Can’t Stand
“When people go to work, they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.” – Betty Bender There’s nothing worse than waking up every day and dragging yourself to a job you despise. But sometimes quitting isn’t an immediate option so we just have to suck it up and endure. Enjoying a crappy job (or any [...]
Friday Wrap-up: It’s The Weekend, Time To Watch The Olympics Edition
Happy Friday Everyone! Hopefully you’ve all recovered from your 3 day weekend last week and are back into the full swing of things. Here are a couple of links that caught my eye that I wanted to share with you. 4 Simple Principles to Getting to Completion – Easy steps for getting you to ‘done.’ [...]
Can Setting The Bar Too High Backfire?
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” – Colin Powell I was supposed to run 6 miles today. I ran 2 and a half. There were a number of variables working against me: It was hot as hell today, I had been feeling a [...]
How To Deflect a Deflator
“That’s my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back. If it’s not positive, I didn’t hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.” – George Foreman Do you have someone in your life who is a “deflator?” You know what I’m talking about – those people [...]
Friday Wrap-up: The OMG it’s Valentine’s Day Already Edition
Good morning! I hope you all are staying warm and dry wherever you may be today. As usual here’s my list of links you may have missed this week. Self Qualified and Degreeless: How to sneak in the back door of your career – The title says it all. It’s not easy but it’s definitely [...]
7 Steps To Turning Your Passion Into A Fulfilling Career
“One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.” — E. M. Forster You may have already read my Super Quick Guide to Finding Your Passion. (If not, go read it, I’ll wait.) And you may have already come up with a list of possibilities as to what your true passion is. But [...]
Friday Wrap-up – 1st Week of Feb Edition
Good Morning! It’s a dreary Friday morning here in Los Angeles, the perfect weather to snuggle up on the couch (or in front of your computer monitor at work!) and read some interesting blog posts or sites I stumbled upon this last week. Go Red & Give Campaign – Join the American Heart Association in [...]
Just Say No!
“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.” – Richard Bach As kids of the 80’s we’re all familiar with the anti-drug campaign “Just Say No!” And it’s so simple right – if it’s something you don’t want or better yet is harmful for you, you should simply say No. But [...]
