13: How Do You Know If Your Skills Are Valuable?
My sister and I were talking about skills: what we’re good at, what comes naturally to us, what we enjoy doing. I confided that when I list my skills, they sound pretty goofy*: I’m great at making friends I’m a good listener I give good relationship advice (but only when I’m asked!) I love reading […]
12: Work Is Neutral
My sweet friend Sarah sent me a surprise: a copy of Marlee Grace’s How To Not Always Be Working. I love this book. Reading it feels like giving my mind and spirit a hot rocks massage and a warm bubble bath. As Marlee explains in the introduction, she wrote the book for herself. But the more […]
10: What Do Babies, Desire, and Fear Have in Common?
Thought leadership can be a new analogy or a new comparison. It can take familiar ideas and put them together in a new way. I love these unexpected and profound pairings. For example, babies and desire and fear: “They set no goals. They require no discipline, adhere to no schedule. Fear of failure, regret, guilt […]
7: Commitment is the New Confidence
At the National Air and Space Museum today, I only teared up about four times. Three of the four times happened when I was reading about women pioneers in flying technology: Bessie Coleman, Anne Lindbergh, and Amelia Earhart. There is something about the stories of these first women that I find incredibly moving. What IS […]
6: Consistency – Why Do Things You Don’t Want To Do?
All day I’ve been arguing with myself: maybe you can skip writing today. Maybe it can be 100 Blog Posts in 100 Weekdays. It’s Saturday, after all. Don’t you deserve a break? Why do things you don’t want to do? It makes me realize how much I balk at consistency in myself… while resenting inconsistency […]
5: Are You Good Enough Today?
On the phone yesterday with Lisa Gates, my client and half of the incredible She Negotiates (and an all-around funny, sarcastic, real, candid, whip-smart, humble human), I shared my 100 Blog Posts in 100 Days challenge. She made the kind of noise you might make when you pick something up and it’s a thousand times […]
4: I Was Here, But Why? How? (we are unique, we are the same)
The most existential questions, which are deep and meaningful and important, sound deceptively simple: What do you really want? What are you here to do? Why are you doing this? When I ask myself these questions, I clam up. The answers seem too broad and cliche in a world full of pressure to stand out […]
1: 100 Blog Posts in 100 Days
The idea for this 100 blog posts experiment came last week, during Ali Brown’s I.P. Retreat workshop. (Yes, I just said that. I attended my first Ali Brown workshop last week! I need to pause to let that truly sink in. I’ve been following Ali’s podcast for years, imagining attending her events and working with her […]
The Millennial’s Future: Managing Worry and Woe
Last week, I received an email from Jennifer, a fellow UMBC alumna and entrepreneur: “I have a question about your post-grad experience: Did you ever feel frustrated and worried you’d never achieve your future goals? How did you deal with that while you were trying to establish yourself as an adult out of school? Do […]
What To Do When You Can’t Stop Thinking About It
I recently became convinced that a friend was angry with me. He was acting so strange! The last few times we saw each other, he avoided eye contact. He didn’t hug me hello or goodbye. When we texted, his answers were short and our conversation quickly died. I racked my brain. Had I done something […]
