Blogs About "writing"

One of the hardest adjustments I had when I first became a manager was adjusting to the fact that not everyone was going to love me. In fact they may not even like me.

Up until then that is what I strived for. As a salesperson, one learned to go out of their way to make sure they were liked. After all no one was going to buy your wares if...

 

I’m often asked how I stay so positive through such uncertainty of starting and growing a business. I usually fumble through the answer because the truth is, I just do! There is really no big secret. Being positive and happy is a choice and we all have the ability to immerse ourselves in both.

My 52 Mistakes (Or: How I’m Turning My Mess into a Message Every Day)

Bottom line – “Embracing and loving who I am and what I’ve done is not a fixed state – it’s a long work in progress.”

As many of my friends know, I’ve immersed myself in a 9-year life reinvention, and shifted from a miserable and chronically ill corporate professional to an author, consultant, speaker and entrepreneur who absolutely loves...

Do you believe this? A teenager in the Bronx who is far too young to be distrusted wrote this line in a Community-Word Project creative arts workshop led by a team of two artists who work with his class every week. Every week he is given a chance to put forward his ideas, aspirations and fears to his peers, his teacher, the artists and to himself.

Last week, Tristan Wilds...

Have you ever had a good idea and needed the right people to make it happen?

For the past 12 years, the organization I founded, Community-Word Project, has worked with at risk public school youth helping them capture their communities and their individual stories through poetry writing, performance and mural making.

To culminate each project we do, every student contributes a poem to a printed and bound anthology to share...

I am learning how to not answer the phone.


That might sound easy but it is not. In the corporate world part of your job as a manager is answering the phone. The phone is a medium through which you conduct business. Meetings are interrupted to take a call. Sometimes you wait for that ring, the important one that will tell you a deal is closed. The phone is never avoided....