Admittedly, it was hard to get fired up about a book focused on meetings. After all, meetings are the bane of corporate existence right?
However, this book was released by The Domino Project, so that was my first clue
Admittedly, it was hard to get fired up about a book focused on meetings. After all, meetings are the bane of corporate existence right?
However, this book was released by The Domino Project, so that was my first clue
There is an epidemic that has plagued our land for far too long. It’s a silent killer and the majority don’t realize it’s curable. The culprit?
Doing non-creative work you don’t enjoy.
What if retirement were completely different?
What if retirement as we know it didn’t exist?
Would you do anything differently?
Do you like to listen to music when you work? I do. It helps me to be more creative and enjoy myself. I have my favorites but I especially enjoy being introduced to new music. However, there are so many artists out there its difficult to pay attention to them all and still enjoy the old stand bys. So I want to introduce a new segment to the blog called “Music to Work By”.
The best way to open this post would be to have a meaningful story about how my ebook 5 Essential Steps to Landing Your Dream Job was inspired by the night I couldn’t sleep so I watched the J.K. Rowling episode on the Biography channel where she goes back to the apartment where she lived pre Harry Potter and breaks down in tears as she ponders how far she has come.
Last week I bought a new pair of shoes. I bought the same brand of shoes three years ago and I loved them so I was excited to get a brand new pair. Everything was going well on the first day I wore them. A little stiff here, breaking them in there, the usual with new shoes. However, at some point during the day I noticed some significant discomfort on the top part of my foot. I just chalked it up to the break in period of new shoes so I
I once knew of someone whose boss had them print out all his emails. Then the boss would hand write responses on the hard copy email. After that she had to respond to each of the emails with what the boss had written down on the hard copy. Wow. Painful to say the least. That is a pretty extreme case, but what do you do when your boss doesn’t appreciate…
Recently I had an exchange with someone that went like this.
“How was your fifty mile run?’
“It went really well. After I finished the run I threw up for three hours. It was great!”
It was great? I thought about that statement for a couple of days afterward. Here was a seemingly lucid man…
In southern West Virginia during the late 19th and early 20th century there was really only one good option for work. The coal mine. The coal mine meant hard work, black lung, and a steady pay check. If your granddad worked there, your dad worked there, and guess what? You were going to work there too. Seemingly there weren’t a lot of choices. In times past children were expected…
Your inner Clark Kent isn’t a bad guy. He’s easy to get along with, he keeps his head down, doesn’t cause trouble and gets the job done. He shows up between 8 and 5 Monday through Friday and pretty much everybody likes Clark. The problem is Clark knows what it’s like to be Superman. You see your inner Superman shows up sometime after 5pm and on the weekends. Superman has a fantastic time doing everything else except…