Archive for January, 2010

Waking Up for Conferences and Speeches pt.3

Posted on January 31, 2010. Filed under: Advice from Outside, Motivation, Relationships, Time and Work | Tags: , , |

I went to another important speech early this afternoon, which is still early for me to be up and ready to go on a weekend. The speech was titled, “Beyond MySpace and Facebook: the 411 of Effective Networking for Young Professionals.” Jill Johnson is the president and founder of Johnson Consulting Services, a management consulting [...]

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Waking Up for Conferences and Speeches pt.2

Posted on January 31, 2010. Filed under: Advice from Outside, Money, Motivation, Time and Work | Tags: , , , , , , |

You can get a job… lessons learned! On Saturday, Dave Kimball, a successful businessman with over 32 years at IBM, talked to us students about how to get a job in this economy. Here is some of what I learned: Companies want someone who is smart (not necessarily a high GPA), someone who wants to [...]

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Waking Up for Conferences and Speeches pt.1

Posted on January 31, 2010. Filed under: Advice from Outside, Motivation, Relationships, Stress and Crisis, Time and Work | Tags: , , , , , , , |

Saturday morning rolled around and my alarm went off at 8 a.m. Now I really did not want to get up. I was up late the night before and I wasn’t really sure what I could get out of a leadership conference anyway. Was it really going to be worth losing sleep? Here’s what I [...]

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Back to School… and the Mess that is my Dorm Room

Posted on January 21, 2010. Filed under: Motivation | Tags: , , , , , , |

So, I’m starting to get reorganized now that I’m back to school and I’ve come to realize that I have way too many sticky notes everywhere. As much as I love sticky notes, I realize they are less effective the more that are out strewn about at one time. Getting re-organized isn’t fun, but over [...]

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Refocusing for the Second Half

Posted on January 8, 2010. Filed under: Motivation | Tags: , , , , , |

Winter break is wrapping up for most of us and soon we’ll be making the trip back to school, back to classes and papers and tests. We’re probably all looking forward to going back to school to see our friends, but I think we’d all rather do without the stress. Sometimes it can be tough [...]

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