Category: Reflection
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10 Lessons from a post-sabbatical, unemployed person
Eight months of unemployment will teach you things about yourself that a decade of 9-to-5 never could. Some lessons were expected. Some were not (the gym one especially). Here are 10 honest things I’ve learned from being home, being unemployed, and figuring out what comes next.
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January memo from Minnesota
I have started so many posts in the past 3 weeks that I have abandoned. With the news changing so dramatically day-to-day, and sometimes hour-to-hour, I’ll take a pause mid-post and then, based on the news, my complete mind space has shifted. Like most residents of Minnesota, I’m constantly shifting from fear to anger to…
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Deconstructing the enemy graveyard, a corporate recovery
I’m at the end of my 6-month sabbatical, time that I’ve intentionally given myself off from the corporate merry-go-round after 30 years of ups and downs. And while I am using this time to reset my creativity, be present and play, most of the time in actuality has been spent in what I’m calling “corporate…
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Proving myself wrong
If you have been following me for a while (or know me in person), you know that I am an endurance athlete. Or that I was an endurance athlete. I have 6 marathons under my belt, a few half Ironman races and countless halves, 10ks & 5ks. Running used to be a way of life…