Month: December 2012

Let there be peace… in your career

Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me…

From Times Square... heading to Fifth Avenue and on to Central Park
From Times Square… heading to Fifth Avenue and on to Central Park

Can peace and ambition compliment one another?

a few blocks from Times Square... home cooked meals
a few blocks from Times Square… home cooked meals

Nuwanda struggles all day, everyday, to balance career ambitions with personal ambitions. Nuwanda lives in all of us.

Have you thought about how 2013 will better in your work life category, or is it impossible?

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May trust, respect, and development overwhelm your work today

busy, career-focused people, fill the commutes across America
busy, career-focused people, fill the commutes across America
Times Square never sleeps
Times Square never sleeps

Nuwanda worked at a Fortune 500 company for 13 years before he requested the last week of the year off. He didn’t get it. Why wait so long? Because he knew when signing up, the work ethic was the customer comes first – “we are at our busiest on nights, weekends and holidays”.

If you are working today, my Christmas wish for you is that you work for a leader who trusts, respects, and develops you.

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What is a Christmas Eve type of career?

the start (or end) of another work day
the start (or end) of another work day, looking East from the Brooklyn Bridge
small business entrepreneur, Brooklyn street vendor heading home
small business entrepreneur, Brooklyn street vendor heading home

Have been promising The Chronicles of Nuwanda for months. A mid life celebration gift to you will be a delivery of posts, based on the life of Nuwanda, a person we all know, and sometimes, maybe even are.

Our career occupies a third of our life and often jumps ahead of our family, friends, health. It’s our sole responsibility to figure this out and manage it.

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Life is an experiment, if we do this one thing

Was Steve Jobs a Genius?
Was Steve Jobs a Genius?
Experimenting is a stroke of Genius
Experimenting is a stroke of Genius

The thing about experimenting that excites us is the same thing that makes it scary – experimenting. Breakthroughs and failures, no guarantees. Five reasons why I began blogging 90-100 days ahead:

  1. Cable connection crippled for two weeks (blind-sided, panic)
  2. Grueling travel schedule
  3. Commitment to try unconventional ways
  4. Excited about a breakthrough
  5. Discovered it was fun to read my blogs “fresh” (not remembering what I had written)

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