“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?” ~ Mark Twain Brian has been counseling me now for several years about my confusion around people who phone it in, people who just take what life gives them, shrug their shoulders, and deal with it. Life happens to these people. I [...]
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Leap: Go Against the Tide of Bland
Posted in adventure, career, work on February 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Leap: Stop Digging Trenches
Posted in business, career, creativity, job, journey, work on February 2, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“The only explicit lesson I got from my father was when I was not doing very well in school, and he had a little chat with me and said, “You know, there are people who work for me who dig trenches, and there are people who are professionals, and if you keep going the way [...]
Leap: Shelter from the Storm Found at a Voice Over Class at Simple Studios
Posted in adventure, art, career, faith, work on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Wait a minute! Did I go to bed and wake up in September 2008? This is the question I found myself thinking while at work yesterday. September 2008, 5 weeks after I joined my company, Lehman Brothers failed and the market went to hell. Several months later I was the only filled desk in an [...]
Leap: Making a Big Career Choice Earlier Than I Expected
Posted in career, choices, decision-making, meditation on January 25, 2012 | 10 Comments »
I’ve got some career choices to make in a shorter time frame than I planned. The company I work for is going through some reorganization. Minimal reduction in headcount lots of reshuffling. This comes as no surprise; what surprised me was that I would have options. There are several different places that I could land [...]
Leap: Heat Up the Iron and Carve Your Own Path (in Life and Book Publishing)
Posted in books, career, choices, creativity, writing on January 22, 2012 | 5 Comments »
“Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” ~ William B. Sprague via Alison Lewis Over the past few months I’ve been sending out query letters and full book proposals to potential agents for a book I’m writing about yoga and personal finance. I love the project [...]
Leap: Sometimes Your Future Chooses You
Posted in adventure, career, choices, future, work on January 21, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Next week is going to prove to be an interesting week around the office. There are rumors flying about changes in staff, strategy, and priorities. I’ve heard so many at this point that they’ve all cancelled one another out. Only one thing is for certain – the way it is now is not the way [...]
Leap: Finding Meaning in Experiences That Are Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Posted in art, career, movie, New York City, work on January 12, 2012 | 5 Comments »
“And if that’s all you learned from 9/11, if that’s all you remembered, that: My God, you could extinguish life so suddenly, so unexpectedly, and it could happen to me, and therefore I should think harder about the way I spend my life instead of just wasting it. Now, it’s not going to teach you [...]
Leap: You’ll Find Opportunity Everywhere. Now, Plan.
Posted in career, nonprofit, work on January 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Since formally announcing my New Year’s Resolution to go my own way in my career this year, I’ve been spotting new opportunities everywhere. It’s as if I’m manufacturing rocks to turn over just to have some place to stash all of the possibilities. The board members of Compass Yoga tease me sometimes about my unending [...]
Leap: Outrunning Fear
Posted in business, career, dreams, fear, feelings, wishes on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.” ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry via Daily Good Beginning is the hard part, and every project, idea, wish, relationship begins the same way: setting an intention. That is the hard part. Loudly and [...]
Leap: A Graceful Exit is Always Possible
Posted in career, change, grateful, gratitude on January 2, 2012 | 6 Comments »
In any transition, we often focus on the end goal. In my year of leaping into full-time entrepreneurship, I’ve spent a lot of time planning how to successfully complete that transition: personal financial planning, long-term strategy for Compass Yoga, funding, and partnerships that will grow our programming. But there’s an often overlooked detail when we [...]
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