Let me start off by saying that I'm a huge fan of these Ted Talks. I saw this one today and thought I'd share. Shawn Achor, CEO of Good Think, Inc., researches and teaches about positive psychology. Positive psychology... It seems to be a topic of great interest lately. ...
Open Letter to Employers: Stop Labeling Us As Troublemakers For Having Ideas
I tend to get in trouble a lot. And it's not because my life goal is to piss people off. It's really not. It's just that I'm the kind of person that challenges things. I challenge processes, I challenge rules. I challenge behaviors. And I've found that a lot of times, people don't like this. I ask questions. I push buttons. I ask how we can change things to make them better. So lately, as I vent about my frustrations about the workplace, the responses I get are usually a combination of the ...
You Don’t Have to Have it All Figured Out
My friend called me last night to start coordinating Cinco de Mayo festivities. Score! As I was thinking about how awesome this weekend is going to be, it hit me, out of nowhere...we're already in MAY. Really?!? A whole freaking year passed by already? I'm just baffled. You see, May of last year marked the beginning of the weirdest year of my life. But you know what? The weirdest year of my life has also been the one I'm most thankful for. To begin with, this time last year I ...
The Educational Revolution…Why? Because Schools Kill Creativity
I watched this video yesterday and it completely blew me away. Do yourself a favor and WATCH IT! This man is honest, funny, a straight up genius and his accent is awesome. Sir Ken Robinson - Schools Kill Creativity "Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence." -Ted Ideas Worth Spreading Should we all be doing what we ...
How To Get Along With Younger Coworkers
So last week I wrote an article explaining how to get along with older coworkers. And you know what? ALOT of people had a problem with it. Thankfully, I didn't get any death threats. I don't like those. They're not cool. But I just don't understand what the huge controversy was. Here's the deal...we're working in a multigenerational environment and it's in everyone's best interest to get along. Unfortunately, it seems that there are a lot of misconstrued ideas about both younger and ...
Essential Career Lessons I Learned From Online Trolls
One of the things I love the most about blogging is that the blogosphere tends to be this lovely place of encouragement and wonderfulness. If you read something and think it's awesome, you "like" it or your comment about how great it is. If you think it's awful, you just go and read something else. It's really a very uplifiting practice, writing. We share our thoughts and opinions on things that other people might care about. I personally write so that I decrease the amount of time that I spend ...