Life
Three tips for overcoming disappointment and moving forward
Tough things happen. Here are three tips for overcoming disappointment and getting back on track when something threatens to derail you or your progress.
Communication
Keep an open mind and argue with yourself
Before clicking “publish” on last week’s blog post about roles and responsibilities, I had to delete one of the three examples I’d written to support my main premise. It was like an hour’s work, with cited links and amusing quotes. It was based on an insight I’d had years ago Read more…
Career
What is ENOUGH in a society built on the worship of MORE?
In a society focused on the worship of MORE, the reward for climbing one rung on the ladder of success is to be able to reach the next rung. When is it ENOUGH?
Communication
Intentionally seeking outrage can lead to personal imbalance
Get out of your own echo chamber to expand your perspective, but to avoid personal imbalance, don’t keep seeking out the trolls in their own.
Communication
When people use fridge magnet wisdom to justify bad behavior
Pithy sayings–fridge magnet wisdom–can help us see things in new ways. But their simplicity lends them to being misinterpreted, misused, and even weaponized.
Career
Is your life designed by committee? If so, claim your role as your own committee chair.
Advice from other people is always based on their own biases and experiences. Take control of your own decisions and don’t live a life designed by committee.
Conflict
Loyalty to yourself isn’t as simple as it sounds
Are you most loyal to your past self, to your future self, or to a fictitious self created by other people? The answer should almost always be, “It depends.”
Career
Six reasons you betray your future self, and how to stop doing it
Saying yes to something new can be hard. Don’t betray your future self by giving in to all the bad reasons and external pressures telling you “no.”
Decisions
The best approach is the one you actually use
You can overpay for the best “solution” to your problem, but if you don’t use it, it’s worthless. The best approach is the one you actually use.
Courage
The death of a future story you’ve been telling yourself
We all tell ourselves stories about our future. Some are our own, and some are forced upon us. It’s always hard to go through the death of a future story.