I teach a class that is designed to inform students of the latest employment trends and the up and coming small and large companies in Portland, OR.
Each term, I dutifully bring pages of data culled from various web sites that cite the latest employment news.
A funny thing happens about 1/3 of the way into the [...]
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Have you ever been reading a book and suddenly realized that although your eyes have been moving the whole time, you haven’t really read any of the last two pages? Somehow your brain went on reading “automatic pilot.” If you care about what you’re reading, you’ll usually go back and re-read the section.
I’ve been told [...]
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Feeling a little uninspired? Not enough creative umph to get you through the day?
When’s the last time you took your inner artist on a date?
Years ago, I worked through Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way.
Artist Dates are one of the tools she recommends to help keep your creativity flowing.
Simply choose a new place to explore or [...]
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Do you ever think of yourself as being a pest?
A lot of human resources professionals do.
Does that sound harsh? Well, let me explain…
If it were your job to review 15,000 resumes a week – would you think resumes were a device for screening people into jobs or out of them?
Granted, most companies don’t receive [...]
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How much of your day is spent doing things you don’t want to be doing?
What would your life be like if you never again did anything you don’t want to do?
A couple of big questions, I know.
Most people tend to defend themselves by saying that there are always things we don’t want to do in [...]
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I was recently challenged to write about a strong belief, one that isn’t necessarily shared by the people closest to me, and talk about how I “walk the talk” of this belief. Here goes…
I believe that creating financial security is the weakest reason to choose a job or a career.
Don’t get me wrong – [...]
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Seth Godin writes:
“Art is not in the eye of the beholder, it’s in the heart of the artist.”
If an artist creates and never shows it to anyone does that mean it’s not art?
If those who behold what you create and don’t call it art, are they right?
Create, create, create!
The world needs your art – even [...]
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Just for the heck of it, I started making a list of the little things that I find fun about my current life and lifestyle.
I was fascinated to see that once I got on a roll, it got easier and easier to think of things until I ended up with well over a hundred…
Watching my [...]
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How often do you take the advice of experts?
I’ve been asking random people this question and have been greeted with similar reactions — a little giggle, and a glancing away in embarrassment. It seems that many of us are in the business of ignoring the experts and going gung-ho, willy-nilly in the direction we [...]
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