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I’m listening to Shonda Rhimes’: A Year of Yes. I was #75 on the hold list at my local library for the mp3 and it was absolutely worth the months-long wait. If you’ve watched Grey’s Anatomy (especially earlier seasons), you know Ms. Rhimes is a great writer. You can even…

I listened to Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek on double-speed during a recent trip to Chicago. Biggest takeaway — I understand why the author has been able to build a speaking/coaching business based on the core concepts he presents. He makes…

I decided 2016 would be the year I’d give learning to code a serious try. So I started with Introduction to Computer Science via Udacity. That course kicked my butt! I found myself wondering constantly: how am I supposed to know this during the frequent quizzes. Most of the time…

Here’s what we’ve talked about so far in the Career Satisfaction Manifesto series: Living a Meaningful Life: Spending our time, our lives, making meaningful contributions, developing relationships built on mutual respect and ultimately knowing that we’re in an environment where we can live up to our best vision of ourselves…

Career Satisfaction Manifesto Part 8, here’s Part 1. When you boil it all down, service is a great way to be selflessly selfish: you feel great about yourself and your contribution, and as a wonderful side-effect, you help someone else out too. Doing something to help other people, particularly doing…

Career Satisfaction Manifesto Part 7, here’s Part 1. There are a ton of tools and ideas out there about how to develop goals and sub-goals and so on and so forth. Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is my favorite one in that genre. The key ideas from Getting Things…

Career Satisfaction Manifesto Part 6, here’s Part 1. There’s an adage I’ve read in multiple places, that says you’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with i.e. your “near five.” …