Tag: work
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Weekly Reflections #12
In which we attempt a comeback. “Indigo De Souza” by davidjlee is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Writing about why I haven’t been writing isn’t interesting for anyone. So let’s not. A quick thought that’s been on my mind for the last couple of days re: receiving feedback. I’ve ascribed for a while to the Conscious Leadership Group’s…
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Weekly Reflections
Well, new year, same me and all. Which means I’ll write these for a few weeks and then get “busy” and stop. But for now here we go. I recommitted a while back to reading every morning before starting work. I did okay with that commitment–I kept it during easy weeks but tended to lose…
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Adjustments + Looking Forward To This Week
One adjustment to a new job I didn’t think about very much beforehand but am now noticing acutely is the need to make shifts to habits and routines. In my old role, I worked most evenings Monday-Thursday, usually for 2-3 hours each night coaching, and I took a similar amount of time during the day…
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Reflections from the first few days of a new job
Day One Reflections: The first thing on my calendar is a meeting with our project steward–we go through a number of questions/pieces of advice, but the one that sticks with me is: have fun learning. I take this as my intention for the rest of the day. I’m able to go to my first client…
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What I’m Looking Forward to This Week
I start my new job at The Ready today! Getting back into routines–we’ve been on vacation for the last week in Arizona, which was great, but I’m also glad to: Have salad for lunch Make americanos in the morning, latte in the afternoon Sleep in our own bed Hang out with our dogs Get back…
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On Job Searching
As I write this, this is my first day of being unemployed since 2014, where I took two weeks off between teaching and coaching to watch the beginning of the World Cup. (1) I’m in a similar stint now–yesterday was my last day at Teach For America (TFA), and in late April I’ll start work…
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When Life Happens (Life is Always Happening)
I had big plans to do a bunch of writing this week! And other things—I had been doing so well at working out, meditating, reading—and all of it went to shit this week. We have a puppy, Rosie, and she is the sweetest thing in the world but also she got sick this week. So…
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Learning From Failure
I’m currently closing out a project at work that…well, no other way to say that than it didn’t work. It wasn’t a disaster or a complete failure, but I think the most judicious way to talk about it is that it didn’t achieve its potential. I’m not going to diagnose the why of that here,…
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Regret is (also) a Choice
Something that came up in a coaching session last week: Regret is a choice. I think I’d amend that now to say: Regret is also a choice. It was in the context of making decisions, ones that visibly alter the trajectory of a life, and the fear that comes with that. For me the common…
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Living Well in 2022
What does it mean, for me, to live well this year?[1] I find myself coming back to basics: things close to me that I have the most influence (really trying hard not to say control here) over. I cannot predict or influence the spread of covid, but I can do the following: Recommit to sleep…
The Minimum Blues 