Throughout my life I’ve had (and continue to have) the fortune of being surrounded by amazing people who constantly provide encouragement and positive reinforcement. I truly believe that whatever success I have is thanks to the prayers and positive thoughts/energy of all these amazing individuals. I’m so grateful for this and I realize I don’t [...]
I like charts.
As I migrated the blog over, I couldn’t help but notice the decline in the frequency of my posts over the last couple of years. Then, I saw a pattern. Since March ’07 I’ve been tracking the relative progress of a particular situation in my life on a monthly [...]
My blog has always been a mixed bag of random stuff. Since my personality is also quite random, I wanted to keep it that way as this blog is a fairly accurate reflection of who I am. However, I realize that this can become tedious for certain visitors because they never know what to expect. [...]
Proper Napping Position from Worst Case ScenariosIf you haven’t heard the term Boreout before, the best article I could find describing the topic is this one: Forget burnout, Boreout is the new office disease
Boreout works like this: a boss refuses to delegate work, frustrated underlings ask for more to do but are trusted [...]
I tried the Princeton Review Career Quiz this afternoon and came out with the following results:
Interest: Green
“People with green interests like job responsibilities and occupations that involve persuasion, sales, promotions, and group or personal contact. People with green Interests enjoy activities that include: motivating, mediating, selling, influencing, consensus building, persuading, delegating authority, entertaining, and lobbying. [...]
Photo from iStockPhoto“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”-Lewis Carroll (said by the Cheshire cat in Alice in Wonderland)
I’m the kind of person who tends to live my life one step at a time. I have some very general (high level) goals for my life, but nothing too specific. [...]
Let’s see if I can finally step back into the blogosphere for a little while…
Several of my friends and I were born in 1982. This means that the time has finally come for us to turn 25 and my turn is coming up in less than 2 days… This is somewhat of the [...]
Pretension Lithographic Print from Despair.comI laughed so hard when I saw the above poster for the first time at Despair.com; there’s much more funny stuff, have a look at the site. I find this funny, some find it cocky. Others thought I was cocky for finding it funny. What type of person are you?
How does [...]
Before I get started looking inward, I was considering: should one care what other people think? This topic has the potential to go all over the place, so I’ll try to be as concise as possible and I’m going to give the typical consultant answer: “It depends.”
When You Shouldn’t Care
My grandmother often says: “What will [...]
I’ve been wanting to write some posts about my personality as I perceive it and maybe get some feedback on how others perceive it. I hoped to blog about some of my weaknesses (or development opportunities, if you will) in order to try and determine if some of my attitudes and/or behaviors are “normal” or [...]