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Category Archives: life lessons
Dec 21
How you can be successful on the road today
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Dec 19
How do you face intimidating opportunities?
Do you run toward or away opportunities that you know would require a change in your character? What I talk about here could be applied not only to job searching, but to life in general.
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Dec 18
End of Year Musings
I used to get anxious and near-panicky as I saw the end of the year approaching. Mostly, I think it was because I wondered what I’d accomplished the entire year. This year I’m looking at things a bit differently. In many ways, it’s still just the end of another month.
What do you think?
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Jul 07
Talking your ear off about lots of stuff (video)
And now, the link-love cornucopia:
- Follow me on Twitter
- Journey Inside My Mind Podcast
- picture of Saturn
- Cheryl Dawson podcast
- Heart to Heart One Voice Walk: September 9, 2007
- School of Podcasting’s Morning Announcements
- Managing the Gray
- Get That Job! – looking for people to share their job hunting success stories
- LiveOfficeFreeConferencing
- Odd, emotionally down week, reminiscent a little of Independence Day 2006
- Chris Brogan and the Down Engine
- Shared about emotional struggles in previous posts on Journey Inside My Mind blog
- Call (206) 666-5466 if you’d like to leave an audio comment.
I wished that the videos from Blogger in Draft had an option to be public – but I think the video gets put in as an enclosure, so it gets downloaded with the feed. Let me know if you find that to be the case.
Recommended podcast listening channels:
- danieljohnsonjr Recommends (individual episodes) (iTunes) (RSS)
- Recommended JIMM episodes (iTunes) (RSS)
- Music (iTunes) (RSS)
- Music for Chillin’ (iTunes) (RSS)
- Out and About (iTunes) (RSS)
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Apr 16
Breaking Technology Addictions
Mike Schaffner points us to an eWeek report on a recent poll by Reuters that discussed how Blackberrys and laptops are blurring the distinction between home and work life.
He recommends the following useful techniques:
- Take action to reduce the number of unnecessary emails that you receive
- Prioritize your actions – take control of when you check and respond to email
He also recommends going into your Blackberry and turning the new email notification off so that you’re not tempted to check it every time a new one arrives. The key to remember is that laptops and Blackberrys are not your jobs; instead they are tools to help you do your jobs.
Here are the comments I left:
You hit a nerve in me with this one, Mike, on a couple of levels.
- I am totally for getting information when it’s convenient for me. I consume most of my media on-demand these days. The idea of watching a program at a specific time is something I’m growing out of. The same with online media (blogs, podcasting, and the like). I’m learning to consume it on my schedule.
- Having said that, I’m also a guy who checks every email that comes in and who also spends so much of my time lately watching what’s going on with Twitter (http://twitter.com).
I have recently found out how to change the notifications for Outlook and GMail, but I could do a lot better with Twitter.
What about you?
Mar 17
Frustrations with hearing impairment show need for sensitivity
Earlier I made this post on Twitter:
*!$% hearing impairments! Ugh. So frustrating sometimes!
Then I put my daughter to bed, cooling off a little bit. I returned and decided I should post again:
Clarification on my last Twitter: I’m just frustrated at hearing impairment. Ppl who know me understand that we deal with it every day
Now the real back story. Earlier as I was trying to get her into bed, different things kept coming up to hinder that. Then as she was getting her bed ready, I was in the living room, and she called out. She needed a pillow because hers were in the dryer.
So I told her to get one from our bedroom. She apparently didn’t hear me – go figure. So I called out a bit louder for her to get one from our bedroom. Again – so I basically called out as loud as I could for her to hear.
A few minutes later I went to her room to tuck her in, and she had this hurt expression on her face. “I don’t like when you yell at me,” she said.
That’s what I meant by hating the frustration of hearing impairment. I need to remind myself constantly that I practically need to be in the same room as Keisha in order for her to hear me; especially when she has her hearing aids out at night. If I’m going to be sensitive, I need to make this kind of effort.
I have written about our experiences with deafness and hearing impairment a lot in this blog, but I’d love to know what you have to say.
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Mar 04
Don’t let the bedbugs bite!
Growing up this was something my Mom would say to us kids before we went to bed. We have said this to Keisha, too. Little did we know how true we wanted it to be.
We apparently have a bedbug infestation in our apartment. We are having to get rid of a lot of things. Probably will have to get rid of our mattress and boxspring. And, of course the sofa and chair we picked up outside that someone was getting rid of some months ago.
That may very well be where they came from, since before having that in our home, we were all fine. Since then we have felt itchy when we wake up, thinking that it may have to do with our laundry detergent.
But then last night I actually felt a sting, and that’s what prompted us to check our mattress and elsewhere in our bedroom.
If we needed further motivation to clean up around our apartment, I guess this is it!
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Dec 26
You’ve Fallen – Now Get Back Up
During some recent mild weather this past week, my wife and I spent some time outside, trying to teach our daughter how to ride her brand-new bike. The experience reminded me of something about life:
I told our daughter that, as she learns to ride her bike, she will fall down. She needs to get comfortable with that fact and not be afraid of it. We got off the bike and went over to the grass. I then told her to fall down. Then I did. I got back up and told her to get back up. The ground is softer than pavement, so it was a good starting point.
Then I had Keisha run at me and knock me down. When I got back up, I told her to do it again, and this time when she pushed, I pushed back. We both fell down. I got back up, but she got upset and sat there on the ground. She was mad at me and wanted her mother, who tends to baby her more than I.
I’ve heard it said that the best way to practice martial arts for self-defense is to experience getting hit. Pulled punches don’t really prepare someone for the real thing.
I think there’s a real good lesson about life here. We will fall down and we’ll get knocked down. Circumstances will happen that knock the wind out of us. We shouldn’t be so afraid of this happening that we don’t do anything. I think I’ve been prone to that behavior in the past I have missed golden opportunities.
When we get knocked down, we get back up and try again. When we fall down, we get back up. That’s the only way to get better.
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