I’m choosing myself. Today and tomorrow and every day after, I’m allowed to succeed, work, grow, fail, experiment, retry, change course, achieve, and more. That’s why we’re all here. I have big goals in life and I want a job that pushes my analytical, creative,…
Businesses are missing a marketing opportunity every time they ask you to fill out a survey for a discount or a chance at a thousand dollar drawing. Why not ask for a share, a tweet, or an instagram photo? They can reward you and/or your…
30% of twentysomethings move each year. A new city brings adventure and potential, but also loneliness. If you’re in a new place for the first time or are trying to make your latest move more successful than the last, I’m here to help. My first…
You don’t always have to do a lot to see a great benefit. Try making a change that fits the two criteria below instead of going for a big all-or-nothing type change. You’ve likely tried that strategy in the past without much success. This time…
I never thought it would end this way. Like most people, I tend to think I’m special, so I thought I couldn’t possibly get divorced. How wrong I was. Our whirlwind love affair started a week ago when a friend mentioned to me that the…
How many lines of “Dumb and Dumber” do you know? Can you remember this episode of “The Sopranos”? How new and underground is the music you’re listening to? Who cares? Unfortunately, lots of people do. People talking about sports, music, movies, and TV are always…
Playing for and captaining the Nebraska Ultimate team was what I really cared about when I was in college and it taught me some important lessons. 1. Caring makes a lot of things easy. Our team was a university student group so there were rules…
My senior teacher watched me teach an unsuccessful class by my (or almost any) standards. Things that sucked: - We played Simon Says even though only a handful of the students understood the rules. - I gave them a simple survey activity that ended up…
“Do you have any brothers or sisters?” “No.” Repeat this a dozen times and you have a rough outline of my lesson on brothers and sisters. It’s hard to teach all the usual language associated with family questions when 90% of your students are an…
“I just don’t know where I belong,” my friend told me the other day. His face told me he meant it too. But then I looked around the room and realized that there was a good chance we all felt that way. I stopped him…