Feb 3, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career, Motivation
Hiking through urban Taipei, Taiwan as part of a landscape project. You’re probably heard the phrase before: When the going gets tough … the tough get going. Sometimes, when the going gets tough, I want to head home, curl up in my favorite blankets, turn...
Jan 31, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Motivation, Post-It, Professional Development
“Achievement is rarely is in line with expectation; and if it is, dream bigger.” Each time you cross the threshold and reach a goal; a goal set forth determinedly by your younger self, you may encounter both a sense of satisfaction and a sense of gnawing...
Jan 16, 2012 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Crafting Your Career, Life, Organization+Strategy, Professional Development
Sometimes my Grandpa says I work too hard. I try to tell him that my work is not the same as work used to be. I work late. I work early. I take breaks in the middle of the day. He points to the clock. It’s 6’o’clock, he says, wobbling over his cane and tapping on the...
May 27, 2011 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Motivation
At some point, you need to let go. Stop holding on to the project. Take your hands off the working table and put the tools down. Put it out in the world. What’s worse than a “good” project is a project that never sees daylight. Most projects can be...
May 21, 2011 | Business and Entrepreneurship
I was chatting via email with a family friend of mine who reads my writing from time to time. I lamented the non-publication of this book I’m “trying” to work on. At the end of her reply, she wrote: “Don’t bother writing me back; just...
Mar 21, 2011 | Business and Entrepreneurship, Life
I recently got some really simple (but great!) advice on how to be an entrepreneur. There are only 5 things you need to do every day to make sure you’ll make it. Sleep Eat well Exercise Be social Get the work done. It turns out it’s really hard to get #5 without...
