Category Archives: Personal Success

Tasks vs. Goals

Before I delve into my point, let me say that I understand the importance of having goals. 90% of blogs, TEDs (whatever they are, I’m still not sure), podcasts, and other success oriented media will mention the importance of goals. “You can’t get anywhere until you know where you want to be. You need a …

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Five Ways to Make Networking Events Introvert Friendly

“The world, especially business, runs on extroverts.“ Horseshit. Oh, it’s easy to assume that it does, because by their very nature extroverts make the most noise, and work twice as hard to get noticed for…whatever it is an extrovert needs to be noticed for at any given nano-second. But some of the best thinkers, and …

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Nine Unfair Things Hiring Managers Expect From You, But NOT from Themselves.

What if most hiring managers, (or anybody in charge of hiring at a given Mom and Pop, no matter what their title) were to act in the same ways they expect potential employers to act? What if they were just as willing to be open about everything, professional and personal, as candidates are expected to …

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Applying My Theatre Superpowers While Not On Stage?

Every night last week I drove a half an hour or more to spend two or three hours a night in a small room working on a project with people, some of whom had not prepared at all for the event, some of whom tried to take over the entire project, and some of whom …

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Poor

I sometimes get the impression that at least half of the population doesn’t know what being poor is. Or at least doesn’t understand what being poor can be. I don’t know whether to laugh, cry, or punch someone when I hear what people think does and does not constitute being poor. I, Ty Unglebower, am …

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