Career Advice
About a year ago, I got an email from author Jane Bedell asking about inclusion of my career tips for developers in her upcoming book published by Simon & Schuster titled “So, You Want to Be a Coder? The Ultimate Guide to a Career in Programming, Video Game Creation, Robotics, and More!” Got a complimentary…
One of the amazing takeaways I’ve had from my experience in the Oklahoma chapter Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) is a saying I’ve heard often: Carry Your Own Bags The idea is … what you get out of the experience is what you make of it. Your experience, happiness and fulfillment is your responsibility. Period. It’s particularly…
Just added a new book to my All-Time, Ultimate Reading List titled The 6 Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden. I wish I had started reading this book when I was a teenager, and read it every year afterward. Foundational, impactful, truth for health and happiness. “To trust one’s mind and to know that one…
Just wrote this post for WProsper about how I don’t usually take time to look back at what I’ve accomplished, but did today and how good it was for my soul. Take 15 Minutes to Look Back
Been thinking over the last week about guilt and its presence and impact in my life … and in those who I care about, so I wrote a length post on the iThemes blog about How to Deal with Guilt. Here’s an excerpt of how I determine if something is baseless, useless guilt, or actual…
I just wrote about a post over on the iThemes blog about living your dreams, after we live one of our lifetime dreams and got to live in Portugal for a month. In the post, I talk about: How living your dreams is about making good choices consistently How it’s about choices, not sacrifices Why…
I wrote a blog post on WordPress Plugins for our Make Money with WordPress focus about how when everything is an option or a choice, everything sucks.
I love personality and strengths discovery tools (often called tests but they aren’t). They help me explore the depths of who I am and my value to the world. In the past I’ve talked about StrengthsFinder, Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator (take it here for free), and 5 Love Languages (take it here for free). A couple years ago,…
I write for three primary reasons: To share my experiences in order to help others (and now for my children too). To clarify, flesh out my thoughts, opinions and ideas; what I believe and have learned. And like writing “I won’t cut in line again” on a chalkboard 100 times, to remind myself of who I…
I did a guest post at Post Status on Investing in Friendships Rather Than Enemies today. Enemies are only trouble. Enemies are distractions. Enemies eat my time and energy and focus. Enemies seek your destruction. Enemies oppose you. Enemies seek to “harm or weaken” you. Friends do the opposite. Why purposefully set out to make enemies…