I’ve been thinking a lot lately (as may be evidenced by my lack of writing) about who I wanted to be when I grew up. As a child, I told people I wanted to be a corporate lawyer, a writer, a librarian, and President of the US. As I got a little older, I still [...]
I recently got this forward from my mom, and thought it was worth sharing and saving:
A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked ”How heavy is this glass of water?”
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t mattter. It depends how [...]
For someone with few friends, and a small family, and an increasingly large job, I seem to be an incredibly busy person. I think its mostly because of how many things I *want* to do – things that I’m constantly collecting information about, that are always getting transferred from to-do list to to-do list.
I end [...]
Alright, I’ll admit it. I’m overwhelmed on a daily basis. So, I’ve been going back to review “The 4-hour Work Week”, GTD and more. Today’s theme seems to be the “Zero Inbox” – a nirvana of which I’ve heard, but I haven’t seen in… well, nearly 10 months since I started at this job.
So, maybe [...]
I finally finished reading Outliers by Malcom Gladwell. I didn’t like it as well as some of his previous work, but there were still some interesting theories. My personal favorite related rice farming to success in math courses. The relevance for me was less based on the math course success, but on the diligence of [...]
peace, love and understanding? I’m struggling a lot right now with trying to give instructions. I’ve always tried to pride myself on my ability to give clear-cut, easy to understand instructions. It seems like recently those instructions are going unread, unheeded, or flat out ignored. The problem stems from haircuts and colors to simple work [...]
Working in the media world, every day I hear about more and more layoffs within the industry. The industry newsletters are filled with the news; to the degree that they don’t even name names about who is leaving, they just announce numbers.
In one of today’s newsletters, there was an article from Page 6, about Lydia [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what I wanted to be when I grew up. Things that I remember telling people:
A corporate lawyer (yes, even at 9 I wanted to be a corporate lawyer, not just a lawyer)
President of the United States (at 10, I was securing votes from my mom’s college professors)
A librarian [...]
Guess I’d better get back to work.
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So, as you may have noticed, I moved my blog away from using my real name as my domain name, instead posting it at the semi-neutral, semi-anonymous url of “Trashflower.com” I’m not doing this out of fear, because I know better than to post anything online that I’m not wiling to stand behind and live [...]
