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January 4, 2016

Goal Focusing: One Month, One Challenge

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I mentioned last week that my colleague Jullien Gordon’s wrote an awesome and free New Year’s Guide; he also hosted a free webinar to talk through it and help people complete it. I’ve only had time to complete about half of the workbook so far, and I was also only able to attend half of his webinar. (Noticing a pattern? Oops.) But I got a lot of out what I’ve done so far, and I’ve finally settled on my New Year’s resolution for 2016. In years past, I’ve generally created a whole bunch of New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve had varying degrees of success in achieving them. There […]

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December 23, 2015

Is My Vacation Balance a Measure of Work-Life Balance?

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It’s hard to believe that Christmas is just about here, and New Year’s is also fast approaching. Where did the year go?! I’ll save the recap/goal posts for next week, but I wanted to talk a little bit now about my upcoming vacation. At my company, we implement a “firmwide shutdown” starting on Christmas Day and running all the way through New Year’s Day. Yes, you have to use a few vacation days for this, but they’re always very generous about also giving us a few freebies to supplement. The daily company newsletter has been doing a countdown to the shutdown, which

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November 5, 2015

Sponsored Giveaway: Folgers Flavors

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I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for Folgers. I received product samples to facilitate my review and a promotional item to thank me for my participation. Lately, I haven’t really been getting a good night’s sleep very often. I can’t blame Daylight Savings Time, because it started before that, but twice in the last week I’ve woken up at 2am and been unable to get back to bed. Yuck! So in the morning, I am definitely making sure I have a cup of coffee to start my day. The good thing is, since I frequently have decaf,

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November 4, 2015

No More Maybe – Commit!

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In my firm’s Denver office, most of us travel four days a week to our clients. We are then are given the option to either work from home or come into the local office on Fridays… and I think you can guess which option is most popular 🙂 So as the connectivity chair for the Rockies region, it’s a bit of an uphill battle trying to get organize events and incent people to attend. Today, I sent out an invite for a lunch prior to a mandatory all-hands meeting. We’ve recently switched from Lotus Notes to Gmail (hallelujah!), and I’m still getting

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October 28, 2015

Whatever Works For You

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Earlier this week, I read a great article from Ramit Sethi – Being Weird and Okay With It. Specifically, I loved this quote: “One of the other panelists said something that did NOT go over well. I found it fascinating. This guy is a successful entrepreneur. He was talking about how, as he’s gotten busier, he’s had to change how he maintains his relationships. He’s realized he’d rather nurture his existing relationships than take random coffee meetings or meet with random people. …So he finally figured out what works for him: He created a “Top 50 Favorites” list of contacts on

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