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Busted
Day 61
Some of you think you’ve caught me red-handed – working.
I’ve had a number of messages (thanks for your sarcasm, your curiosity, your concern) referring to evidence that I’m doing things that look like work.
(Pause)
(Reflect)
(Accept intervention message)
Maybe you’re right. I am having more temptation than I expected to dip my toe into…OK, I’ll say it, [...]
And This Is Why She Gets The Big Bucks
Day 34
During this sabbatical year, I’m making very few appointments, but I still meet with my coach.
Today the coach helped me reframe a major life situation in a way that took it from “energy drain” to “energy source.”
It’s hard to put a price on a professional service that gets one from “troubled” to “happy,” but that’s what a [...]
Why Your Company Should Pay You To Go Away
Day 21
”Sabbatical is the new black,” I said earlier this year, and I’ve been told that a sabbatical is also the new “status symbol.”
More importantly, sabbaticals are a new way to reinvigorate employees, and their workplaces are the eventual beneficiaries.
Compass Point provides some proof in a new study of nonprofit leaders who took three months [...]
Slower
Day 14
Yes, I know, it’s almost the end of Day 14. I’m not responding to artificial deadlines this year.
When TED Community Director Tom Rielly invited The Harnisch Foundation to be a founding sponsor of the TED Fellows program, we signed on immediately. The TED Fellows are some of the most extraordinary people in the world. As a [...]
Why Reinvent The Wheel (When You Can Reinvent Yourself Instead)?
Day 9
Are you up for a fresh start? I’m usually working on a continuum, hoping to improve, progress, move forward. As a coach, I have spent years helping clients identify and take the next steps to achieve their goals. Most people are trying to build on what they have, not tear it all down and start from [...]
There Is No Try – Do Or Do Not
Work ethic- it was pounded into me from earliest childhood.
Kids had chores, and were expected to exercise some creativity, ingenuity, and enterprise to earn their own money. I can’t remember when I wasn’t busy. I usually had more than one job – even in high school, I was working at a radio station and a [...]
Is Your Earth Flat?
Years ago, when I was struggling to come up with a succinct way of describing all the different work I do, I asked my friend Marielen: “What do you say when people ask you what you do?” She said, “I tell them ‘I am enjoying my life.’”
I was trapped in the notion that what I [...]
