If you read my post Live for the Dip last year, you know that I felt like I BOMBED my first official bookstore event (even though my friends would tell you otherwise). I’m proud to say that I’ve since emerged from conscious incompetence, feeling much more able to deliver a speech or workshop with the [...]
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I have a confession. When people ask me why I started Life After College five years ago, I tell them it’s because I felt lost and lonely at age 20 and wanted to help other graduates get on their feet faster. But there’s another reason too. I thought I needed to start a business so [...]
Re-entering the “real world” after 16-days of actual rainbows and sunshine in Santa Barbara was a major shock to my system, as I alluded to in Part 1: “I’ve been working harder every day but feeling like I am falling farther and farther behind. I’ve felt exhausted to the core; disappointed and helpless as I watched [...]
This is a re-post of an article I was recently featured in, written by my friend and productivity guru Pierre Khawand at People OnTheGo. “People get out of balance when they see their value as being able to respond quickly. If I see myself as a machine for answering email, then my work life would [...]
Are you living for vacation? I was. At least I was until last week, when I realized I either had four weeks to be miserable until my next vacation or four weeks to do something about the fact that I was spreading my low energy and bad moods around like an infectious disease. In three [...]
“Is the life you’re living worth the price you’re paying for it?” —Quote from a Managing Your Energy class I recently took If you bear with me on a ridiculously technical metaphor, this post will count as two credits toward your Geek 101 terminology education. I live my life in sandboxes. Not the kind you [...]
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