Success at Work Challenge Week 2: Plan
I’m trying to achieve success at work, and you can too! For the next 6 weeks, I’ll be running a #SuccessAtWork challenge on this blog. …Read More
Writing About Time Management, Life, Careers & Family
Friday Links: 5000 hours
Just a few links today, mostly focused on the class of 2013. First up, over at Brazen Careerist's Brazen Life section, I write New Grads: …Read More
The Idea Desk (not pictured)
I had a rather successful night at my middle kid’s nursery school silent auction a few weeks ago. Maybe it was the fact that I …Read More
Lessons from minding my hours
I'm keeping a work time log this week so I can see where my time goes (keeping a work time log is Week 1's assignment …Read More
Art and compromise (my musings on Eat, Pray, Love)
Despite watching Elizabeth Gilbert on Oprah years ago, I somehow managed to miss reading Eat, Pray, Love when it came out in 2006. I don’t …Read More
Success at Work Challenge Week 1: Mind your hours
I’m trying to achieve success at work, and you can too! For the next 7 weeks, I’ll be running a #SuccessAtWork challenge on this blog. …Read More
Leaning in, with clementines
Can you have a big career, be ambitious, and still appreciate a clementine? Can you achieve great things professionally and still appreciate “the color, the …Read More
Traveling light, and Thursday thoughts
I’m on the road again the second half of this week. This photo is of my small carry-on bag, and my purse, which holds what …Read More
Magnolias and the drumbeat of days
I've always wanted to have a gorgeous, flowering garden. I also know that the planning and production of such a garden -- paying a landscape …Read More
Make over your workday, light a fire under your career
One of the phrases that has stuck with me over the years is that “A life is lived in hours.” We may have grand ideas …Read More