Oct 7, 2011 | Life, Travel
I was planning on running a quick errand. In the elevator of the AirBNB apartment I was renting, I made a to-do list: Pack. Ship. Mail. Dinner. Write. Check travel itinerary. Get ready to head back to the States tomorrow, early. I grabbed my keys and my bag and...
Oct 6, 2011 | Life, Motivation
I’m deep in the throes of reading two books by one of my favorite authors. Before I tell you who it is, I want to include an excerpt from one of the books: “I’m a welter of insecurities. I’m insecure about not understanding what the next person...
Sep 29, 2011 | Health and Wellness
I got an interesting email from a friend currently going through an arduous graduate program. Almost as an afterthought, he said, I have a question for you: How do you eat? How do you stay healthy, especially when you’re only cooking for just yourself? How do...
Sep 20, 2011 | Crafting Your Career, Less is More: Living Minimally and Simply, Life
I’m breathing again, having just launched our website project this past week. Everything was set to go live early in the week – launch campaign emails, final website tweaks, coordination with the team, announcements to be sent, facebook posts, advance tweets. I woke...
Sep 9, 2011 | Crafting Your Career, Less is More: Living Minimally and Simply, Life
I’ll be honest, My face hurts. It might be from the lack of sleep, or the fact that my face is currently crushed against a table in a coffeeshop, where I’ve inadvertendly placed my head down for a quick snooze, and now I’m covered in drool and...
Aug 27, 2011 | Motivation, Post-It
What’s the urgency in what you are doing? Who’s putting pressure on you to get everything done right now? What can wait? Too often, we chase dreams and deadlines and ideas in a rush-rush-rush world, bombarded by things with seeming urgency. Some things can...