Share I love chocolate-covered pretzels for their salty-sweet deliciousness. Rejection has similar contrasting qualities for me. At first it feels like salt in an open wound, then it almost always turns into something sweet later down the line. Don’t get me wrong — I don’t love getting rejected, but I don’t hate it either. In [...]
Share This just in: the woe is me cloud from two weeks ago lifted this past weekend and I’ve never felt more myself. Wuhoo! On a recent trip to New York City for work, I followed all of your advice and I slowed down. Way down. So much that I didn’t even tell anyone I [...]
Share Today my friend Colin Wright of Exile Lifestyle launches his mega ebook – Networking Awesomely – and I’m excited to be a guest contributor! My excerpt is below (and includes the latest addition to my template family, the Networking Tracker). More about the ebook in Colin’s own words: “I propose a new kind of [...]
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Share “Periods of recovery are likewise intrinsic to creativity and to intimate connection. Sounds become music in the spaces between notes, just as words are created by the spaces between letters. It is in the spaces between that love, friendship, depth and dimension are nurtured.” —Jim Loehr I live a life that I am incredibly [...]
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Share “We should bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new, something unknown, has entered into us. The more patient, quiet and open we are in our sorrowing, the more deeply and the more unhesitatingly will the new thing enter us and the better we shall [...]
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Share Well, folks! A small family of pigs somewhere just got their wings and learned to fly. I – Jenny Blake – blogged about the BIG SCARY L-WORD over at Ophelia’s Webb. I am honored to be a part of Elisa Doucette’s February All You Need is Love series, in which a different blogger will [...]
