Laid off. Downsized out of your job. Fired. Call it what you like, it’s all the same thing. One day you have a job and a paycheck to go with it and the next day the alarm goes off at 6 AM and you have nowhere to go. I’ve been there. More than once. The […]
A Death Reminded Me Of What Is Lost When We WFH
I lost a friend last week. It should not have come as a surprise. Just over a year ago, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Still, when I got the news I sat clouded in shock and disbelief, the kind that happens when you learn of someone’s death and even when you know the news is […]
The Payoff In Choosing To Be Curious
My friend Kelly Hoey is working on a new book. Like her first one, Build Your Own Dream Network, this is also going to be about networking. So she posted this question on her LinkedIn profile. She offered four options to choose from. anxious confident inauthentic curious I generally feel confident walking into a new […]
What Happens When You Don’t Take Things For Granted
Last January I signed up for Weight Watchers. It was time to lose my pandemic weight. I committed myself, knowing that soon enough life as we once knew it would resume and I would have to put on a pair of pants that zipped. For the next several months I was disciplined. I ate healthy, […]
Why We Need To Laugh More, Even When Things Are Tough
When I was in junior high school I had a friend who was a Jehovah’s Witness. Being raised Greek Orthodox in a predominately Jewish neighborhood, I knew nothing about the Jehovah’s Witness beliefs. All I knew is that my friend carried her bible with her everywhere and told me the world was going to end […]
Maybe It’s Just Writing The Next Chapter
According to the Labor Department, a record 4.5 million American workers quit or changed their jobs in November. One doesn’t need to look at a lot of data to figure out the reasons why, one just needs to pay attention. What we’ve gone through collectively as a planet these last two years is extraordinary. The […]
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