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The Worst Kind of Rejection
Rejection sucks. No matter how it comes – a letter from a college admissions office, a phone call from a prospective employer, an e-mail from a literary agent or silence from someone you thought you...
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Stuck in Your Job? You’re Not Alone.
According to a recent Bloomberg article, 28 million Americans are stuck in jobs they would’ve left in ordinary economic times. As the article points out, that’s a lot of dreams deferred. But it doesn’t...
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Be Careful What You Wish For
Does life ever get so hectic that you wish you could just hit the pause button and lie around with your feet up for a week, doing nothing? Yeah, me too. In fact, last week was one of those weeks. It...
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The Creative Muscle: Use It or Lose It
Spending the past four weeks on crutches gave me the opportunity to view my life from a different perspective. Some of what I experienced was challenging: opening doors without falling over, climbing...
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Letting Go of a Dream
You may have noticed that things have been quiet around here for the past week or so. For that, I apologize. Life has taken some unexpected twists and turns…but I’ll get to that in a minute. First, a...
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Rewind: Self-education
Originally posted on October 30, 2009 Whenever I finish a book that I love, I scour the author’s bio trying to figure out what made him or her so amazing. I did this a few years ago when I finished...
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Rewind: Don’t Overthink It
Originally posted on December 13, 2010 On Saturday I met a young woman named Christina, who recently moved to Bethlehem from Italy. I was immediately fascinated by her story because I’ve always...
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Put First Things First
News of Stephen Covey’s death this past Monday took me back to a world I don’t think about often: Corporate America. At my first “real” job with a pharmaceutical company, Covey’s bestselling book, The...
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If Renovating Has Taught Me One Thing…
…it’s that I miss writing. I’ll admit, at first I used our renovation as an excuse for why I didn’t have time to sit down and work on my next book. In hindsight, I think I needed a mental vacation...
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Finding Inspiration
“Inspiration usually comes during work, not before it.” -Madeleine L’Engle
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