“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I owe you a “Part 2″ post on how I got my new position as a Career Development Program Manager at Google. Trust me – I’ve been working on it. But I started writing about all the various networking and interviewing tactics I used in a mile-long list of tasks, and I bored myself to [...]
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I would be remiss if I didn’t write the obligatory “big personal athletic moment as metaphor for life” blog post after finishing my triathlon. So here I go.
Contrary to the story I made up for many years that “I could never do a triathlon because the swimming would kill me,” yesterday I completed the See [...]
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Earlier this week, David Cain of Raptitude.com posted a great comprehensive guide to creating a life checklist. As soon as I saw it, my template brain started firing synapses. With David’s permission, I’ve created a Life Checklist Template to compliment his post. This is for those of you that prefer simplicity – if you want [...]
“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.” -Benjamin Fairless
In my previous post, Create a Professional Development Strategy (Part 1), I talked about the [...]
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I have been motivated by achievement for 25 years. It is all I have ever known. It has worked very well for me – I got straight As throughout high school and college, finished UCLA in three years with a double-major, college honors and Phi Beta Kappa. I moved quickly up the ladder at Google, [...]
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