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Every year for over 20 years a small group of friends and I have been getting together around the Christmas Holiday. I started the tradition after the birth of my first child.ย  I wanted to make sure that, even though...
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I have 3 vision boards. I write my career goals every January and post them on my bulletin board at work. I am a Passion Test Facilitator who works with people on aligning their passions with the work they are...
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I am currently working with a high-level software engineer in Silicon Valley who has had enough! She has been with her current employer for 3 years and consulted with them for almost 2 years before that. She thrives when solving...
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I have been struggling these past few weeks. I wake up many mornings with this low-level sadness and anxiousness that requires me to useย every tactic I have to get level:ย  Prayer, journaling, walking, doing something ย productive, talking with my husband,...
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I am going to say something pretty radical here so get ready! If we hadย listened to the millennials, we would haveย been better preparedย to navigate through the changes that living through a pandemic has required us to make. I read a...
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In our most recent meeting ofย The “IT” Community, a gathering of Women in Information Technology building careers and lives they love (email us atย [email protected]ย for details), we started our introductions talking about something good that was happening for each of us...
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I am currently watching a house on a corner in our neighborhood being built. They tore down a ranch that was there and now are building new. As I go past it, I have noticed an excitement in myself. I...
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I had two different experiences with people and their dogs that taught me a lot about how to handle personal crisis while at work. The situations were similar. Two co-workers had dogs that were very sick.ย The dogs were at the...
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I was recently asked about all the writing I do. How do I come up with my ideas?ย  Do I find it a hard process? Good questions! I had not really thought about theย HOWย before. Until recently, I did not even...
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Here is a story I recently read on the interwebs. (There was no authorโ€™s name given). A father said to his daughter, โ€œYou graduated with honors, here is a car I acquired many years ago. It is several years old....
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