Tag: Passion
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Education and Fear
I have been reading Seth Godin’s Stop Stealing Dreams. Click here to get it for yourself. I think it’ll be inspiration for a few more blog posts. He highlights how our educational system is built to prey upon our fears. What we have fundamentally done is created students that are afraid…
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Articulate Awareness
I heard someone say this today. Awareness is easy, but to be able to articulate awareness – that’s not as easy. I loved hearing the saying. It helped me to understand that it doesn’t matter how aware I am of a problem, if I am not able to adequately articulate…
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Passion for Conservation
I recently helped a friend with their resume – it’s always nice to help people with their resumes. I was looking at the job description and there was a line that stood out to me – it was this idea that this position – among other things – needed someone…
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Did Not Do Well In School
Some of the most brilliant, creative people I know did not do well at school. Many of them didn’t really discover what they could d0 – and who they really were – until they’d left school and recovered from their education. The Element p. 9 – Sir Ken Robinson A…
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Write With Your Heart
I have talked to some of you about creating content and starting a blog. The conversation typically starts in same way. By asking questions: Who’s going to read this? Why would anyone read my stuff? Who’s going to care about this? These are all normal questions for someone starting a…
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Insider Language Competence
No matter what you do there is insider language. It doesn’t matter what industry or field, the individuals involved in it has competency in it. Most of it is just knowing the language. Most of it is just knowing the words. Think about it – knowing how to have conversations…
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Running From Your Passion
It is not possible to run away from your passions. You cannot run away from the things that you love. You just can’t. You can try, and if you are able to run away from it – it really wasn’t your passion in the first place. You can’t run away…
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Using Twitter to Drive Your Blog
It only takes one tweet or one retweet in order for a high powered Twitter user to expose your writing to hundreds and thousands of people. People typically find your blog posts via Twitter. Check out this article about it. But people will only retweet your stuff if you write…
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Do It For Free
Live your passion. I was going to call this post that, but I decided to entitle the post by the main idea. What are you passionate about? What is that thing that you live for? What gets you up in the middle of the night – and makes you take…
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Belief in meaningful work
I watched another Malcolm Gladwell talk on youtube – here’s the link.. It deals with passion and not genius. You can be a genius and be really smart, but if you have passion – if you have belief in meaningful work, you can accomplish some great things. I think if…