Penelope Trunk
FEBRUARY 11, 2012
Last fall I took my kids to Hermosa Beach. It was a big moment for me because the whole time I was playing professional volleyball, in my 20s, I dreamed I would have a family and live in Hermosa. It’s a great beach town with top-notch volleyball. There’s proximity to good career opportunities in the LA area, and a culture of kids growing up with sand in their hair.
Eat Your Career
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
I’m a big believer in setting goals. After all, how can you expect to “get” anywhere without first having a clear idea of where you want to go? Only, the problem with goals is that achieving them isn’t always all its cracked up to be. How so, you ask? Well, here are three common experiences (I know them well) and what you can learn from them. 1. “Wait.
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Lateral Action
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
“I discovered at an early age that all I’ve ever wanted to do is design” Jonathan Ive in his New Year Honours press release (Image by David Blackwell) It makes me want to puke. On reading this you will have had one of two reactions – you’ll either have nodded along because you, too, have […]. The post How To Tackle The Goal Setting Problem Nobody Talks About appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
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Penelope Trunk
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
After the Facebook IPO, Sheryl Sandberg will become number two on the list of richest self-made women. She is the COO of Facebook. For those of you not familiar with her career, there’s a nice summary in the New York Times. But the bottom line is that she is really smart (Harvard), a really hard worker (startups, Google, Facebook), a great speaker ( here’s a commencement speech) ,and she’s married to a guy who is also making tons of money in startups.
Penelope Trunk
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
I always thought leaving New York City would be good for me because when you live there, the push to get the best of everything is very strong. New Yorkers are maximizers, a term coined by psychologist Barry Schwartz for someone who is always thinking they can do better. These people are generally unhappy. There’s a spectrum, for sure. But if maximizing were a scale of 1-10, 10 being the highest in NYC everyone is in the 6-10 range.
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Eat Your Career
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
Do you ever find yourself stumbling around your workplace wondering, “Where is the love?”. I’ve been in professional environments where the tension was so thick you could practically taste it. People literally hated one another. They actively worked against their teammates. The gossip and backstabbing and flat-out sabotage was almost comical. Like something out of a movie.
Eat Your Career
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
This is a small segment pulled from a webinar I did at the beginning of the year where I provided tips for helping you keep your New Year’s resolutions. If you need a little assistance putting together SMART goals, this video breaks it down quickly and provides step-by-step instructions to turn an abstract “resolution” or “dream” into a concrete action-oriented goal.
Lateral Action
FEBRUARY 6, 2012
Drawing by Hugh MacLeod The tortured artist is one of the great cliches of creativity. And like all cliches, it contains a grain of truth. Look at the work of any truly great artist, and you will find suffering is one of the big themes – whether it’s the everyday misery of poverty (Dickens), the […]. The post How to Suffer for Your Art (without Being a Jerk) appeared first on Mark McGuinness | Creative Coach.
Strategy+Business
FEBRUARY 12, 2012
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Penelope Trunk
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
A while back, someone was interviewing me and asked me if I’ve tried yoga. Right now a zillion people are thinking I’m writing about them. Because so many people, in the middle of an interview, will decide they need to recommend to me that I do yoga. The person tells me that yoga changed their life and they think it would help my life. So I says that I have been practicing Ashtanga yoga for fifteen years.
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Penelope Trunk
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
Divorce is always on my mind because I got a divorce four years ago. Not that I wanted to. In fact, when I thought we were going to a couples therapist we were actually going to a divorce mediator. And then, when it was clear that we were going to have to get a divorce, and I had all the money to fund it, my lawyer finally said to me, "If you drag your feet any longer, you're going to have to get a new lawyer because I'm retiring." So we got a divorce.
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