Posted in courage, failure, tagged postaday2011 on October 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“This thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” ~ Mary Pickford (via Leslie Knope) Network TV is my guilty pleasure. Anyone who says there’s nothing good on television isn’t looking hard enough. Last week I took in an episode of Parks and Recreation. Truthfully, I hated it the first [...]
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Posted in adventure, Africa, home, travel, tagged postaday2011 on October 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Today I’m very excited to share a guest post from Nikita Raja. We “met”via this blog over two years ago and since then have kept up a regular correspondence. She’s one of the members of this blog’s community who is constantly encouraging me to continue to share my experience as a way of helping others. [...]
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Posted in economy, money, passion, tagged postaday2011 on October 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Welcome to Saturday’s wrap-up, take 2! Thanks for your thoughts, ideas, and encouragement this week. Here’s how it played out: Make all the plans you want and be prepared to throw them out the window. If this wild ride on the economy slide has taught us anything it’s that flexibility, liquidity, and creativity are tools [...]
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Posted in choices, passion, tagged postaday2011 on October 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.” ~ David Hume, Scottish philosopher, economist and historian Somewhere along the way, “reasonable” got a good connotation and “unreasonable” got a bad connotation in modern society. Comprise, consensus, and [...]
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Posted in business, nonprofit, yoga, tagged postaday2011 on October 27, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Rob, Michael, and I trekked downtown to see our rock star attorneys to review our by-laws. They surprised with the wonderful news that in record time the Department of State has granted incorporation status to Compass Yoga. We are official, moving us one more step down the road to getting more yoga and wellness programming [...]
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Posted in career, tagged postaday2011 on October 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Last weekend I had lunch with my friend, Sara, and she told me I needed to talk myself up more. I hate doing this. I much prefer to talk up other people. After some reflection, I realized that if I talked myself up in a way that showed others how I could help them and [...]
Posted in creativity, economy, money, tagged postaday2011 on October 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
We have a lot to learn from history. If we take a trip down Wall Street’s memory lane, we’ll discover that it was founded on the principle of creative destruction, the creation of new industries and companies that build better products and services than those we currently have. Instead, as Tom Friedman so eloquently stated [...]
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Posted in economy, learning, tagged postaday2011 on October 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Over the weekend I watched the movie Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, and it took me back into those scary days 3 years ago. I started working in the financial services industry in August 2008, 5 weeks before Lehman Brothers failed and our economy spun into a seemingly hopeless downward spiral. They were dark days, [...]
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Posted in choices, decision-making, discovery, tagged postaday2011 on October 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“Plans are useless…planning is indispensible.” ~ Einsenhower As a relentless planner and practitioner, I’ve sometimes wondered if I slog through this process in vain. After all, so few of my plans work out the way I want them to go, or the way I think I want them to go. Maybe planning is a waste [...]
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Posted in 1, tagged postaday2011 on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m trying something new here on Saturdays – a recap post to link together the week’s learnings. I started doing this a weeks ago for my own benefit and then thought it might be beneficial to others. So, here goes: The week kicked off with reflections on a tough conversation I had with Brian last [...]
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