From the category archives:

Career Fulfillment

Comparison-Free Living

August 17, 2011

This is a picture I took this week of the Looking Glass Waterfall in the Pisgah Forest in North Carolina near the town of Brevard where I am visiting a friend and working on my creative writing. I have long known that one of the major blocks to creative expression is the tendency to compare [...]

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The Power of a Time-Out

July 31, 2011

If you’re at all like me, you may feel there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done that you want and need to do. Some days I glance at the clock and wonder how the hours have managed to fly by, wanting to magically stretch the day like silly putty until [...]

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Productivity Patty

June 30, 2010

Years ago when I was just a wee innocent embarking on my corporate career, I struggled with how to organize my time, my day and my desk. A newly minted manager, I sat behind a desk that looked like it had been in the way when a paper factory blew itself up. On every square [...]

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Superwoman Travels with an Entourage

March 30, 2010

A few years ago when I was traveling on business in Europe, I happened to see a cartoon in a local paper directed at the growing trend of women in business. The cartoon showed a woman flying through the air proudly holding her briefcase aloft and, trailing in her wake, a stream of people large [...]

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