Abstract: 14 months before the 2008, and I’m already tired of the options.
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From the monthly archives:
August 2007
You could go crazy trying to simplify your life. Don’t waste your time.
Everyone seems to want to simplify, to cut out extraneous influences and turn off the incessant bombardment of the outside world. We want balance, and we bemoan our society’s frenetic pace as if there were once an easier time when balance and simplicity [...]
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I do a lot of work with individuals trying to grow professionally, and I keep seeing something that I can’t quite believe:
People will go to great lengths to avoid doing the one thing they need to do to be successful. They will actually expend more energy avoiding the topic than it would take to overcome [...]
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The following snippet comes from the soon-to-be-wildly-popular career-comedy, How to Self-Destruct: Making the Least of What’s Left of Your Career (And What To Do if You Fail at Failing). Because what’s funnier than the typical career path?
Look for more ways to bring your career to a premature end–as well as surefire alternatives almost no one [...]
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For a long time, I thought that freedom at the top was self-evident… Not so much anymore.
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Abstract: A personal story about feeling disconnected, including an excerpt from a personal journal.
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Abstract: We all suffer from a sense of entitlement to some degree or another, but sometimes, one’s sense of entitlement goes so far as to flatten the personality. If you engage in 3 or more of the 5 behaviors highlighted here, you may be on your way to becoming a caricature.
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Abstract: Lessons for thriving in any political environment, from your office to your local government.
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I have never been a huge fan of the written language; I find it unnecessarily constricting. I have long thought that English would benefit from a series of additional symbols, akin to crescendo and decrescendo marks in music, that would indicate to readers where to place emphasis, where to add a staccato punch, where to [...]
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