Seppo Helava is a leader who has always gotten great results and has made sure to take care of his team first, often ahead of his own welfare. He’d be a great person to talk to about building collaborative cultures, about finding product market fit, or about game design. I’ve always appreciated his thought partnership,…
I had a great time chatting with Angie M. Callen, CPRW, CPCC of Career Benders, Inc. on the No More Mondays podcast. We covered a lot of topics, including learning how to say no, how I managed my career and later burnout, and how to align your work and life with your values.
I had a great time chatting with Angie M. Callen, CPRW, CPCC of Career Benders, Inc. on the No More Mondays podcast. We covered a lot of topics, including learning how to say no, how I managed my career and later burnout, and how to align your work and life with your values. Take a…
Don’t forget to #celebrate and give thanks.
Don’t forget to #celebrate and give thanks. My book was released on Amazon yesterday. It’s exciting for me to see it out in the world, and to read the first set of reviews. At times, it was listed as the #1 book in Work Life Balance, the #1 new release in Job Hunting and Career Guides….
My book, You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work to Meaningful Impact, is now available for purchase on Amazon at https://lnkd.in/gVuHwA4Z
My book, You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work to Meaningful Impact, is now available for purchase on Amazon at https://lnkd.in/gVuHwA4Z Here’s what some early readers had to say: “You Have A Choice is a moving journey through the wisdom necessary to own your own journey. By generously sharing his story from being a burned out…
Act from a future possibility.
Act from a future possibility. You may have heard of the butterfly effect as an illustration of #complexity dynamics, where a butterfly flapping its wings can potentially create a tornado on the other side of the world. In other words, the smallest of actions can have disproportionately large ripple effects. Since we can never predict…
You can’t do it all.
You can’t do it all. We are trained in school to believe there is always a “right” answer, which we can find if we only work hard enough or are smart enough. But classes and problem sets are constrained to focus on a limited domain where there can be a single right answer. In the…
Change means letting go.
Change means letting go. Once you learn a set of behaviors that bring you #success, you usually keep doing them even if your situation changes. That makes sense! Why change something that’s working? And yet these actions that previously brought success may be the exact set of behaviors that are now keeping you stuck. Navigating…
How are you the problem?
How are you the problem? This question is meant to remind you of the agency you have in a situation that isn’t working for you. While there’s much of life that is out of your control, you still can manage your own behaviors and mindsets, and how those might be contributing to the situation. For…
To celebrate the launch of my book, titled You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work to Meaningful Impact, I will be hosting a LinkedIn Live Zoom event next Monday, Nov. 6th at 4pm Pacific (7pm Eastern) for anybody who wants to join.
To celebrate the launch of my book, titled You Have A Choice: Beyond Hard Work to Meaningful Impact, I will be hosting a LinkedIn Live Zoom event next Monday, Nov. 6th at 4pm Pacific (7pm Eastern) for anybody who wants to join. Think of it as a Reddit-style Ask Me Anything (AMA) for those interested in…
The only thing you control is your next action.
The only thing you control is your next action. You can’t change the past. It’s already happened, and nothing you do will change that. If you don’t like what happened, you can avoid responsibility by looking for somebody to blame, or make other excuses. You can spend hours beating yourself up and wishing you had…