Not saying nothing

I was on a call getting advice; I had paid someone for this service. “Don’t buy a house in Duisburg,” she said. I made a noise of agreement, thinking: industrial, gray, boring to drive through. “There are Romanian men sitting in front of cafés drinking coffee,” she said, “and their women are pushing fat strollers …

Using Moving Motivators

Talking about what intrinsically motivates us is sometimes difficult; hell, sometimes even understanding what motivates us is difficult. The Moving Motivators exercise (available for sale or as a free download there, as an online tool here, or as a Miro template) provides a framework to think about and talk through ten motivators that most people …

Mentoring!

This year I volunteered to be a mentor for FEMSTORY, which offers young professional women a chance to match with an older professional for three months of mentoring. Why mentoring? There have been plenty of times in my career where I wished I had a mentor to bounce stuff off of. When I found out …

Time and habits

Today I slept an extra hour. I’m still groggy and not feeling top of my game, and I’m not feeling like writing. I committed myself to writing every morning for at least fifteen minutes, and I want to prove to myself that I can carry through on that. I’m not one to stick relentlessly to …