Being on the road lesson #1: don’t expect yourself to get as much done as you planned. I had this grand plan to write about each of the places I had visited right away, publishing a post a week, doing them all justice… alas. You’ll just have to settle for my retrospective. We’ll start where […]
1. You have to be loud/extroverted/good at socializing. 2. You have to “know it all.” 3. You can’t ask for help. 4. You can’t express weakness/stress. 5. You always are in your leadership role. Got any leadership myths to add to this list? Leave ’em in the comments!
Judging mother goat says you “should” do more. It’s been some time since I’ve been able to sit down and write anything – well, at least anything that I’m proud of. I’ve been writing emails, writing to-do lists, researching things to write, and generally hiding under my covers whenever someone mentions writing for pleasure or […]
This week, I entreat you to reject the word ‘should.’ I remember in my high school, there was a giant orange poster that had a quote from Yoda on it that read: “There is no try, there is only do or do not.” I want to take that message and apply it to ‘should,’ in […]
It is harder to live. You experience too much or not enough. You struggle uphill without a clear plateau in sight. Your priorities shift and what you’ve been working towards is suddenly invalidated. You stumble. You lose. You become covered in dirt and must wash yourself clean. You listen to sad music when your spirits […]
Today, I’m giving a brief list, in no particular order, of expectations I have of the U.S. government. So brief, in fact, that I will constrain myself to one pithy sentence each – which will be a strain on my typically long-winded writing style. Here it goes. 1. Keep AT&T from absorbing T-Mobile because its […]