“What should I do with my life?” Whether you’re just starting your career, staring at the beautiful future like a blank canvas, or a little further along trying to figure it out, here are some ideas about what to do with your life. Full disclosure,
I’ve reflected a lot on how to find yourself again when you feel lost. On starting over. As I left school and entered the world beyond, I constantly had the feeling of being late to the party… Either that, or that I’d taken the wrong
There’s something magical that happens when I write. Maybe you’ve felt this too. I usually pop some music in my ears–I’ve been known to have Hans Zimmer’s “Time” on repeat for an hour–and disappear into another world. I hope you’ve experienced this sheer joy at
If you’re wondering how to reinvent yourself when you’re lost, let me share something with you. I was raised in a very fundamentalist form of Christianity. We had a simple view of the world. We knew who was good and who was bad. We knew
Do you want to know the biggest career mistake that MOST people make? They don’t have a vision. They stumble through life, walking through whatever door opens, without ever knowing where they’re going. Here’s how to fix that… Video Notes This post contains links to
Updated September 3, 2021 So you graduated college. Now what? A lot of people just assume that graduating college means total clarity on where you want to go with your life. The skies will open. A dream job with a pension, benefits, great salary, and maybe
I was thinking today about good advice for PhD students, especially those just starting out. And I imagined what I’d tell myself all those years ago. I stepped into a PhD with very little knowledge of how to do anything. I didn’t get the language
I worked at a summer camp as a teenager. I was working in the kitchen one week for a family camp when an older woman, a camper in her 70s, picked up a broom, and started sweeping the dining room. I took the broom from
I left for university on a sunny, August afternoon. I was at the wheel of my parents’ chevy Astro van. A wooden trailer swayed along behind us, overflowing with my worldly possessions held down by a blue tarp. We hadn’t gone more than ten minutes
It’s a misty morning in Berlin—you can feel the rain in the air, but it’s not falling yet. We’re playing tour guide—showing some family members who have come to visit around Berlin. Berlin is a vibrant city, full of life. But tourist Berlin is dark,
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