the art and science of finding your thing
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I woke up this morning thinking about taking the leap, choosing your own adventure, answering your hero’s call. And that it isn’t supposed to be easy.
People say living from your heart and steering toward your best life feels like paddling downstream.
You get this image of leaning back on your raft with the sunshine on your [...]
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I’ve been obsessing thinking more about this check-y-loo habit. I’d love to bump creative time earlier and push checking e-mail and stuff later into the day. (Later than the second my eyes pop open.)
And I’m trying to be patient with myself. (Ow.) And curious.
The end of my corporate career was bad. Bad like Sunday night [...]
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Our important, intrinsic, rock-star-worthy stuff isn’t always the stuff about us that Other People value. And this is kind of a big deal. It’s one of those difference makers between a super-happy-thriving life versus a mediocre, successful-on-someone-else’s-terms existence.
But you have to believe that you get to decide which elements of your fabulosity that you cultivate. (And hear this: You’ve got plenty to [...]
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I’ve been thinking about my trajectory through the roles of Good Student, Model Employee, and All Around Team Player. And out of nowhere, Bam! Rookie Entrepreneur. Oh, the bumps in the road.
I had a pretty easy time with the transition from peppy, straight A student to highly-regarded, fast-track bound corporate employee. We’ve talked about my [...]
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This whole notion of finding (and doing) your thing: I talk and write and think about it, oh… quite a bit. One of the elements of thing-finding that receives some pretty intense pondering on my part is any emphasis on the singularity of the thing.
So yeah, there isn’t just one thing.
I’m really sorry, but it has [...]
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Confession: this post has an ulterior motive. Except… Well, if I call it out like that right there at the beginning, it seems more utterly obvious than ulterior. Huh.
Well here’s the thing: as I get really amped about creating my coaching practice, all of the entrepreneurial marketing-type experts out there say to focus on only [...]
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Or do anything really.
I played badminton completely humiliated myself on Halloween. An actual tournament of embarrassment if you will. (I’m athletic, I love tennis, I can hold my own in most sports; something about badminton brings out extreme lack of coordination. Particularly embarrassing while donning a costume.) Anyway, not the point, just setting the scene.
I [...]
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You get something you want, you achieve a major goal, you’re finally “there”. And then what? This is a theme I’m working with lately. Kind of a lot.
(Also, this is where I have to tell you that I don’t see myself as much of a goal kind of person. Even though I think figuring out what you [...]
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Okay, back to discovering our passion. This is the fun part. Except when it isn’t.
Because when you feel completely numb and can no longer hear that still, small voice within whispering clues about your most fervent desires, it can be a very painful place to be. Fortunately, if you’re willing to dig deep, I guarantee [...]
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All right, now that I’ve got that birthday thing out of the way, back to finding our thing in the sweet spot. With marketable skills (snooze) and genetic talent (holy ancestral confusion) out of the way, next up: passion ~ yum, let’s do it.
If you missed the earlier posts:
first I introduced Jim Collins‘ theory of the hedgehog [...]
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