Category Archives: Personal Success

Embracing the Mess

A mess, even a big one, is not a tragedy. Even if something is so screwed up it has long reaching consequences that get worse with each day they are not addressed, they are still just messes, so long as they are not life threatening to someone. It’s not easy to separate messes and screw …

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Extreme Moderation and How to Avoid It

One of my good friends had a birthday this week. The following day on her Facebook status, she mentioned that there were so many baked goods laying around the house from the celebration, and that she was very tempted to have many of them. Her status ended with, “Moderation!” I responded by saying that moderation …

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FiND iT FREDERiCK Launch Party…My Perspective

As I mentioned on Thursday, I was invited to attend a launch party for the brand new FiND iT FREDERiCK Magazine website this last Friday. I did indeed attend, and here is my overall view of the experience, as promised. It’s significant because I don’t go to many of these sort of things. Not simply …

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Now To Help (And NOT to Help)

Expertise is often a foundation of networking, both professional and personal. If you are willing to share your expertise or opinion with someone who is seeking same, you may find yourself a very grateful new contact who will be there to help you should you ever require it. There are any number of ways to …

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Not Looking for a Hero

What happens if you don’t have any heroes? Depending on who you ask, especially amongst the current generation, the answer could be anything from a life without satisfaction to impending global annihilation. Yet when I am asked who my heroes are, (and it is a very popular assessment tool) I don’t have a ready answer. …

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