I read a Myers Briggs personality type article on Careers in Theory and it led me to a neat test on YouTube called the Selective Attention Test. Watch the video and see if you come up with the right answer. It only takes two minutes. I’ll wait: I couldn’t believe it, so I asked my [...]
Continue reading...July 13, 2010 By
The Engage Your Strengths Google Search Story Video
One of the benefits of insomnia is that when you wake up at 4am, you have a couple of hours to surf Twitter and RSS feeds before getting ready for work. This morning, I came across an article about creating a Google Search Story. I watched some of the examples on YouTube and then decided [...]
Continue reading...July 12, 2010 By
Turning Passion into a Strength
Yesterday I commented on a post by David Siteman Garland about why blogging on a subject you are passionate about trumps blogging on a subject you are skilled in. After I commented, I realized that those of you who read this blog might be interested in a more detailed answer. We’ve heard over and over [...]
Continue reading...June 29, 2010 By
Fail 9 Times. Get Up 10.
The beach is fun, right? You languish in the sun, read a good book, play in the waves. Then when you turn your back to the water, a huge wave comes along and whallops you from behind and suddenly you’re spitting sand. Oh sure, it’s funny when you watch it happen to someone else. It’s [...]
Continue reading...May 24, 2010 By
Does Your Need for Instant Gratification Kill Your Progress?
I hate to put things off. Oh, not things that I’m scared to do or hate doing – those I can put off for weeks and weeks. But things that I really, really want are tough to put aside. I am the queen of instant gratification. This works to my advantage when I can reach [...]
Continue reading...May 18, 2010 By
Give Yourself a Raise
An Adult Talk My first-grade son and I had a discussion tonight that shifted his view of the world. We’ve been having more and more “grown up discussions” in the past year, and tonight we talked about how even his father and I have to make decisions sometimes about what we want to spend money [...]
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