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Monday Musings: Kiss the Frogs
“Before you find your prince, you need to kiss a lot of frogs.” A good friend and colleague of mine, Dr. Dido Gustilo-Villasor told me this one time when I failed to land an interview for a job. I felt confident that my credentials were enough, and that I was competent at the work I’d…
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Monday Musings: We Are Not Better
Monday Musings is a weekly short blog post meant to get us thinking. Not a bad way to start the work week. Recent events have made me think about our obsession with comparisons. A lot of people I work with and talk to seem to care a lot about being “better”. Better than their peers,…
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We’re Talkin’ About LOVE pt. 1
Today is the first of three blog posts on love. I purposely chose “Flowers are Twice the Price” Day to publish this because today we’re reminded of the one we love or maybe the one we lost. It should be fun, so let’s get started. First of all, let’s talk about the kind of love…
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Keeping It Fun
Last weekend I shared a video of myself playing the electric guitar on social media. I’ve had a love affair with the guitar since I was a teenager, and the joy of plugging in and ringing out a fat power chord has not lost its shine. Today I want to talk about keeping things fun,…
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Connecting The Dots
One of the most important speeches I’ve ever heard in my life was Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement address. Listening to what he had to say while sitting in my cubicle was the moment I first asked myself seriously, “Am I in the right place?” Fast forward to today, everything he says in this video…
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