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How I improved my morning routine | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

I tell him, "Good job finding a solution to your problem." Doing things ONLY for rewards is a problem, but one I suspect rarely occurs in these situations – and when it does, the solution is unlikely to be less rewards, but more boundaries or a raising of the bar. Subscribe -- free! He will be just fine.

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Twitter can save your life | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

A friend of mine who recently started blogging used Twitter to ask what others' blog stats were like. I'm getting out of mine a little more each day. Even their – usually unsuccessful – search for an answer, a solution, or for healing becomes part of it." Their story is their identity.

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Time management is not about tasks | Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist

Penelope Trunk

It may make you feel good to give someone compliments, or vindicated to tell them what they did wrong, but constructive criticism often requires pulling yourself out of the situation and engaging compassionately in finding solutions. And mine certainly deserves some. Much harder. Much better. The big note I need for myself now?

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Don't be a snob about career advice | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Along with the ideas, even a few choice words can be enough to get you thinking along a path to a solution. I love your blog or, as a friend of mine says, "I'm pickin' up what you're puttin' down." In other words, the advice usually most helpful is already known to us.

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Start recognizing patterns in problems | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Not that you asked for advice, but mine is to focus not on getting him to separate from X, which is his problem, but on how you deal with having a husband who isn't separated from X (the old saw: you can't change someone else, only yourself). But your problem is not that he has a separation issue with X.

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Asperger's at work: Why I need a sick day to register my car.

Penelope Trunk

I don’t see a crowd of people holding papers like mine. I say thank you, and then I see there is an LCD above each window in the whole place that shows the number and letter sequence that is almost like mine but not really mine. I'll try to add mine here. It seems mine just work out that way. Posted by Mark W.

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6 Tips for better conflict resolution | Penelope Trunk's Brazen.

Penelope Trunk

Mine are always not dry enough, not warm enough, or not dirty enough for going into the chicken house. I guess there’s no real solution besides maybe trying to understand other people’s priorities. Penelope's woodwork looks just like mine. If Penelope's woodwork is like mine, it's an orange color.

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