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February 25, 2015

Sustaining Momentum from Big Picture Inspiration: My Plan

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Helen Keller Quote: Alone we can do so little; together, we can do so much.

Sorry it’s been so quiet on the blog this week! On Saturday morning, I cheated on the mountains of my home state by flying to Utah to ski in Park City. Well, to teach me a lesson about loyalty to Colorado, we had a major snowstorm all weekend in Colorado that apparently led to one of the best ski weekends of the year… but in Park City, the slopes were icy and with basically no fresh powder at all. Since I had booked the trip weeks ago, I couldn’t change my plans, so I just made the best of it …

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September 15, 2014

Reforming My Plant-Killing Ways

health and fitness / 6 Comments
Dying Basil

A few months ago, I bought a basil plant for my apartment. I was so excited about having fresh basil all the time, since I love to put tons of basil on everything! However, the combo of Denver’s super dry climate and how often I traveled (and therefore, how infrequently I watered) meant that my poor plant did not fare so well. I tried to compensate for being gone for 4-10 day stretches by watering it a ton just before I left, so that it would hopefully have all the water it needed for the time that I was gone. (Or …

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March 3, 2014

Deciding On (And Committing To) New Goals

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How do you get motivated to do something? You set a goal, commit to it (preferably publicly), and then take all the little baby steps needed to achieve it. But what happens when you can’t even think of a goal you care enough about to achieve? Well, you get stuck in a rut – and unfortunately, this is where I’m currently finding myself. Perhaps I set off the chain of events myself through inadvertent sandbagging when I declared that my big picture theme for the year was to settle. I defended the choice of seemingly-unambitious words by talking about what …

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April 8, 2013

Weekend Trip: Park City, Utah

career, travel / 4 Comments

This weekend was really a slam dunk. First, I headed home from Dallas early on Thursday in order to meet up with a team of analysts I was coaching for a work extracurricular. In short, the analyst teams were tasked with coming up with a way to improve our firm – and after the first round cuts brought the teams down to five, each team in the finals got to present their ideas to the most senior leaders in our firm. The final presentations were held on Friday morning, and it was very exciting to sit in the executive boardroom …

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February 6, 2013

Change of Plans

career, health and fitness, productivity / 2 Comments

I haven’t been following my own rules today. Namely, my rule that goes, get your workout in first thing in the morning so you don’t have to worry about it the rest of the day. Oops! But sometimes, you have to bend the rules and do what’s right for you right now. Yesterday, after writing that post about how run down I am starting to get, I decided to actually try to do something about it. So after the client dinner, I texted my morning workout buddy and asked if she would mind switching to an evening session. We were …

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