Feb 6, 2012 | Post-It, Professional Development
I put together a series of a dozen or so challenges and questions that I ask myself and post up in my office and my home workspace. To see the rest in the series, check out the Post-It category.
Feb 5, 2012 | Health and Wellness
… When life gives you lemons … At home, we have a lemon, lime, and an orange tree in our backyard, pressed up against the fence. During the big storms, my mom ties the trunk of the tree to the fence to prevent the weight of the fruit from falling the tree....
Feb 3, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career, Motivation
Hiking through urban Taipei, Taiwan as part of a landscape project. You’re probably heard the phrase before: When the going gets tough … the tough get going. Sometimes, when the going gets tough, I want to head home, curl up in my favorite blankets, turn...
Jan 31, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Motivation, Post-It, Professional Development
“Achievement is rarely is in line with expectation; and if it is, dream bigger.” Each time you cross the threshold and reach a goal; a goal set forth determinedly by your younger self, you may encounter both a sense of satisfaction and a sense of gnawing...
Jan 26, 2012 | Health and Wellness, Life
How many times do you flip upside down and look at the world from a different perspective? Literally – how often do you turn upside down? Short of taking a thrill ride at an adventure-park, or bending over to pick up the trash, most people rarely turn upside...
Jan 24, 2012 | Annual Review, Professional Development, Reading List
“If you stop learning, you are obsolete.” Entrepreneurs and intra-preneurs learn like crazy. (If you don’t know what an intra-preneur is, check out this list of business terms). An intra-preneur is changing the game in his or her current company by...
Jan 16, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career, Life, Organization+Strategy, Professional Development
Sometimes my Grandpa says I work too hard. I try to tell him that my work is not the same as work used to be. I work late. I work early. I take breaks in the middle of the day. He points to the clock. It’s 6’o’clock, he says, wobbling over his cane and tapping on the...
Jan 8, 2012 | Annual Review, Motivation
What a year. First, a huge thank you for everything and everyone wonderful from December: it was the surprise ending to an already-unforgettable year. I was blown away by the shout-out on Pro Blogger and the response to the recent Do Something: Slide Share...
Dec 20, 2011 | Annual Review, Crafting Your Career, Motivation, Things-That-Could-Turn-Into-Books
I’m sitting on an airplane, staring out the window, reflecting on the year past and how quickly it seems to have gone by, and thinking about all the adventures I’ve been on. December is a time of pause: we can stop and look back, and, if we really do our...
