Penelope Trunk

MARCH 12, 2012

Seth Godin just published an e-book about education called Stop Stealing Dreams. He talks about how schools stink , but that even though homeschooling appears to be a rational response to terrible schools, homeschooling is inefficient and unrealistic for most parents. When I first saw this, I was stunned. Seth has built a career on telling people how to push past the status quo.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 8, 2012

Here’s a lesson I’m still learning: Changing your mind isn’t the same as giving up. You see, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about goals— how to set them properly , how to see them through, how to keep your perspective about achieving them. As most of you know, I’m kind of a goal junkie. But recently, I’ve had to make some…corrections. And it’s been hard.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 19, 2012

Executive function means being able to see the big picture and sort through details to arrive at a good decision. You probably have met more than a few people with very poor executive function. This person is probably very smart but seemingly incompetent in one area—often at work, or in daily life skills, or both. Executive function disorder is common among people with Asperger Syndrome.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 26, 2012

My son already has experience taking care of an animal and selling it. Last year, his 4-H project was pigs. He showed them, then he sold them, and we even went to the carcass show, which is where fifty people go into a meat freezer with a agriculture professor and find out why one kid’s carcass got a blue ribbon and one kid’s got a white ribbon. If you guessed marbling, you guessed right.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 29, 2012

So, you’re not happy at work. “But,” you wonder, “is anyone?”. Maybe you expect too much. Maybe you have some unrealistic idea of what career fulfillment looks like. Maybe this is as good as it gets. Maybe. After all, no job is perfect. But, there might be one that’s a little closer to perfect. Or a way to make your existing career MORE perfect. Here’s one way of looking at it: If you were to rate your career satisfaction on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is perfectly satisfied and 1 is perfectly

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 15, 2012

Remember on Seinfeld , when George Costanza’s dad decided to rebel against the commercialism of the winter holidays and celebrate a holiday called Festivus instead? One tradition was to stand around the Festivus pole and air your grievances. Well, the spirit of Festivus must be in the air because lately, it seems, quite a few people (including top level executives) are being very vocal about their employment grievances.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 7, 2012

In case you missed it, I held my free coaching call for the month of March earlier today. You can listen to the recorded version using the audio player below. If you’d like to participate in the next call happening Wednesday April 4 , please register and submit a question by visiting this page. As usual, if you can’t attend the live session, go ahead and register and submit a question if you have one.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 6, 2012

When you see someone who has a career you want, it’s a safe bet that they spent the majority of their career clearly defining themselves and then differentiating themselves from all the other people who defined themselves the same way. Self-knowledge is a huge career tool , but most people find it onerous and try to skip it. The problem with skipping over self-knowledge is that people hit a career ceiling, not because someone put it on top of them – we put it ion top of ourselves by not knowing

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 16, 2012

This post is sponsored by Harris Bank. . When I was growing up, we had stuffed lions from Harris Bank. We had enough Hubert Harris lions to make whole a zoo. The lions made sense to me, because I thought of the bank as a warm and fuzzy place. Really, to understand what I’m talking about, I need to tell you about money in my family. And what I learned about money from living the life of a rich kid. 1.

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