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As Joe Jackson (no, not that one) Sang,
Day 183 (POST UPDATED: NEW YORK CITY AREA ONLY, PLEASE) You can’t get what you want ’til you know what you want . In my experience as a coach, darn few people know exactly what they want and why they want it and how to get it and what they’re prepared to do to make it [...]
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Day 134 Was it just me? Was it because I have altitude issues that make me more sensitive? The meeting room for the conference was arranged to create a sense of intimacy and to foster conversation, but for me it was cloying and claustrophobic. The rows were too tightly packed together, and the combined scents [...]
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Day 118 I loved the movie Run Lola Run. I saw it so many years ago, but I think about it almost every day for at least one second. The director Tom Tykwer hooked me forever with a little cinematic technique: at various points in the action, a series of quick still shots appear. They show a [...]
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Day 116 This must be what if feels like to be a book author. A colleague spent part of her Saturday reading everything I posted here since the first of January. This is a feeling I have never had before. I wonder if book writers have this sense of awe, that anyone would exchange the [...]
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Day 95 I am not counting it as “work” when I coach strangers on the internet. I joined Aardvark last year and I enjoy the opportunity to answer the random questions that people submit online. This morning, Aardvark sent me a question from a California man who said he was having “no luck” finding a judicial clerkship. I’ve [...]
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Day 74 Yesterday’s New York Times had an article about trade school ripoffs that should be required reading for anyone considering enrollment in a for-profit school. I’ve known about this scheme to rake in government money for almost 40 years. Barely out of our teens, my roommate and I were working at entry-level jobs. She was [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Day 23 I’m happiest at sea level; more specifically, I’m happiest in the sea. Here I am in Deer Valley, Utah , at 8200 feet above happy. My body responds by displaying almost every symptom of moderate altitude sickness. My head is pounding. I’m short of breath. I’m nauseated. It usually takes me a few days to [...]
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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 [...]
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