Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

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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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to put blog comments to good use Posted to: Learn to take advice December 8th, 2009 Del.icio.us Posted by M on December 8, 2009 at 11:11 am | permalink | Reply I cannot help but agree with M that you are brave not to make decisions out of fear.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

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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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

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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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

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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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

But every time I walk through my hall, I think about how important it is to take risks with my house – because that’s what makes it mine. I recently saw Erick Goss speak at a conference on media trends, and the best advice he gave was to find cheap ways to fail because there were no guaranteed solutions.

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Penelope Trunk

JULY 29, 2010

on August 1, 2010 at 11:22 pm | permalink | Reply I agree you should be cautious about exit interviews but I really laid out many issues and their solutions at a place where I was senior person of 104 when I left. A few years ago, an architect colleague of mine quit to start his own firm. Posted by Jim C. " I love this quote.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Posted to: Career fulfillment October 9th, 2009 Del.icio.us Posted by econobiker on October 9, 2009 at 9:47 am | permalink | Reply I have to say, Obama has just as much BS in his politics as any other politician that makes it to president. Posted by JR on October 9, 2009 at 9:54 am | permalink | Reply That's how mesmerized I am.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

He has asked me to not talk over him, but I have a hard time telling if it is his turn to talk or mine. It’s mine. Posted by BJ Lindy on March 6, 2010 at 9:38 pm | permalink | Reply The Farmer must read all comments and could have come up with the solution: he should buy you a coat or give you one of his.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

Use solutions-based language in tense conversations. Posted by MS on January 8, 2010 at 11:06 am | permalink | Reply A cheap & easy solution to the lost keys problem: find a visible place to hang your keys. It's mine, and I don't judge myself about it. I need to remember to not give him so much.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 7, 2010

I find happiness in material things, sure, but I'm happy when I'm with friends that remind me of where I'm from and what we've been through, when I'm with my girlfriend and can think about building a future with her, and when I'm alone and can organize thoughts, make plans, and find solutions. That was ages ago.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 16, 2010

Mine from yesterday had 13 items on it, I was able to cross off one and felt almost giddy when I crossed it off. As an engineer I always try to think of technology solutions to problems like this. Sometimes the simplest solution is the least obvious. To Do lists are hard; it’s true and I struggle with mine every day.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Asperger syndrome in the office: How I deal with sensory integration dysfunction Posted to: Diversity | Knowing yourself | Office Politics September 30th, 2009 Del.icio.us The math thing is especialy interesting to me because I had similar problems.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

EEG neurofeedback training is the best solution because it trains the brain out of that pattern. I ask them what their favorite thing about their day was…and then I tell them mine. You can read about that adventure and how Yoga was part of the solution by searching for "Fender Bender" on my [link] blog.)

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog First, be honest about what you want Posted to: Goal setting | Knowing yourself November 2nd, 2009 Del.icio.us Posted by richa on November 2, 2009 at 4:07 am | permalink | Reply Good luck. I thought of one. You think of one, now.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Posted to: Goal setting | How to blog November 17th, 2009 Del.icio.us Posted by Shefaly on November 17, 2009 at 8:37 am | permalink | Reply Great post! Posted by Steve Churchill on November 17, 2009 at 8:58 am | permalink | Reply I echo the question. Is this your first time here? Blogs are tools in that respect.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

A good friend of mine who NEVER cursed in high school but came out of the army cursing, wrote a song, "We say fuck a lot" Check it out: [link]. ' Solution? I take pride in knowing that the girls I've worked with, as well as my wife, who never used it before, now throw it around casually in often hilarious ways.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Posted to: Parenting | Self-management December 4th, 2009 Del.icio.us I hope that the rule of past performance predicting future performance will skew more toward his former exits than mine. But there's no magic solution. He says it has happened at every startup he’s ever had. I try to focus. Being lost cannot be avoided.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to know if you'll be good at sales Posted to: Finding a career | Knowing yourself | Recruiters November 19th, 2009 Del.icio.us Posted by Aaron Erickson on November 20, 2009 at 3:18 pm | permalink | Reply What you say is true in some cases.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 14, 2010

I just spent all of 2008 and the majority of 2009 miserable and said that my new measure of success was a level of happiness. I wish that I could offer a solution, but alas, I'm just a searcher like yourself. I moved abroad in 2009 on spouse transfer in middle of recession having given up my job.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. As you say, "if you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem", and I see the problem as people who get too caught up in concealing their desires behind some elaborate facade they think would be more pleasing. The guy is hilarious!

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2010

Posted by JenG on April 23, 2010 at 7:18 pm | permalink | Reply The thing I've learned, is that the social media platforms aren't mine. Although I still have every letter my best friend wrote to me in Jr and Sr High School, she threw mine away years ago.all of the things I poured my sorrows and joys and hopes into.poof, gone.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

Posted by Anthony on January 18, 2010 at 10:41 am | permalink | @Anthony: You clearly missed that Cathy and Quatrefoil are both Australian…as well as missing the point that extreme nationalism was one CAUSE of WWII and not the solution. The author posted this to the public to read and form an opinion on, I formed mine.

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