These words have been immortalized by the Nike slogan. They were also the first ones that came to mind this morning when I read Brad Feld’s post It’s So Hard When Contemplated In Advance And So Easy When You Do It. After a long time, I instantly connected with a post. The feeling he talks - Read More -
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Workaholics Anonymous
Last week I fell behind on my feeds. Catching up on 37 Signals blog, I came across the post “Step one is admitting you have a problem“. It is a very well written post, and makes a couple of extremely valid points. Essentially the gist of the post is that workaholism is not required to - Read More -
Dealing with Curve Balls
Every once in a while life throws something at us, when we least expect it. Sometimes, it makes you lose your balance, and fall off the path you were hell bent on pursuing. Sometimes, it is a necessary reality check, to help us re-focus on the things that really do mean a lot to us. - Read More -
When Life Consumes You
Image by Ditch the Kitsch!! The last couple of days have gone by in a daze. It all seems a blur when I look back. Things moved quickly, and one day merged with the other. Today, a friend of mine told me that most high risk and high reward occupations share this similarity. Our work - Read More -
Taking Time Off
Image by Usman Sheikh I got a chance to take some time off last weekend. For a couple of days I literally shut my phone off, did not power the laptop and was not checking my email every 5 minutes. At first it was a bit strange. The first day I was most uncomfortable. I - Read More -