Apr 15, 2014 | Annual Review, Crafting Your Career, Professional Development
Living up to your potential sounds pretty fancy. It’s something we all want, right? Live up to your potential. Maximize your potential. Be all that you can be. But how, exactly, do you do it? How does an intangible life objective become manifest into your daily...
Jan 20, 2014 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career, Money + Finances
When I was four weeks old, my mother and father took our then-family-of-four from Germany to Idaho Falls, little baby and tiny toddler in tow. We were standing around in the living room, as my mother recalls (to be be fair, I can’t recall and I certainly wasn’t...
Jan 6, 2014 | Crafting Your Career
“Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you’re bad at writing and don’t like to do it, you’ll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated.” -Paul Graham Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired magazine, wrote that “the new...
Dec 13, 2013 | Crafting Your Career
Your job is to create something in this world. With your human hands, your brain, your vision, your dreams, your desires. Make something. Make something with your mind, with your hands, with your heart. Put ingredients together and craft a batch of bread. Fold paper...
Oct 22, 2013 | Crafting Your Career, Professional Development, Stories, Writing Practice
I used to hate interviews. I stammered, I inserted words such as “like” and “um” a whole bunch, and my voice pitched up at the end of nearly every sentence. I sounded exactly like what I was—a young 20-something female with insecurity about my ideas. Then I started...
Jul 22, 2013 | Crafting Your Career, Decision Making
Ever say yes to something and wish you hadn’t? Or get stuck in a situation where you’re not sure how to say no to something? Or better yet, get asked for money and you don’t know how to say no? I have a hard time saying no (an impossible time, sometimes, because I...
