Post from Brazen Careerist – Penelope Trunk with some personal commentary, quotes from What Does Somebody Have to Do to Get a Job Around Here? by Cynthia Shapiro 1. There’s one trick to all trick questions. “All trick questions, even the really scary psychological questions, are crafted so that you will give a negative answer.” [...]
I went to work forgetting I have purpose. I have skills, opportunities, and my position in life to work towards something, even if it’s nothing. Beginning a bit depressed, today wasn’t supposed to be the day that I heard inspiration and absorbed it instead of just listening to it. A man named Jeff Johnson (BET’s [...]
Naturally, as a blogger, I’m spending some of my time learning or reading up on how to be one. Like any new thing, it’s a challenge. On a blog I read pretty regularly, ProBlogger.Net, there was a post very recently called “Don’t Just Have a Blog – Learn to Think Like a Blogger.” I realized [...]
1) Think selfishly. 2) Think selflessly. 3) Combine the two and think of the relationship
You sit on your couch watching TV. Thoughts start filling your head about what you could be doing instead. You also take a moment not to think about much at all, which would seem to be more of the point of sitting there in the first place. Now, depending on how you look at it, [...]