A Sydney friend, Josh Capelin, gave a talk at the last local Pecha Kucha about yak shaving. It inspired me to write a blog post and share a few thoughts on multi-tasking related to professional lives. That was five months ago and I’ve been putting it off. You’ll see the irony in minute here, letContinue reading “Getting Focused on Dividing our Attention”
Category Archives: Lifestyle
Moving Day
I’m moving to a new place today. I’m bummed to leave Surry Hills, but I won’t be far away. My new spot is just on the other side of Oxford Street, in the lovely suburb of Darlinghurst. Packing up my things reminded me of my promise for this new year to consumes less. It’s shockingContinue reading “Moving Day”
Finding Your Home: Waking up an Expat
How long does it take for the expat to wake up and no longer feel like an expat? Or does that day never come for some people? I don’t ask because I think I’m anywhere close to that day. In fact, I can’t imagine it. Next week I will have been gone for a year,Continue reading “Finding Your Home: Waking up an Expat”
A New Adventure
Yesterday I moved to Australia to start a new part of my life. I’ve accepted an exciting role at a digital agency in Sydney and look forward to making this a new home. I feel incredibly lucky and moving back to Australia has been on my mind for awhile now. I’ve spent my first coupleContinue reading “A New Adventure”
Seeking Creativity
Can you learn to be more creative? Or perhaps creativity is not learned but just buried and we need to practice it. In either case, I’ve recently been attempting to search for these answers and “exercise my creativity.” I want to seek inspiration from others by putting myself in creative environments and learning from passionateContinue reading “Seeking Creativity”
Distracted by my Own Breath
Last Friday I had the opportunity to hear Artie Isaac give a presentation at The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business. It was a talk on leading with your heart for a group of first year MBA students. Obviously, I’m not part of that group but there were some extra seats so I quicklyContinue reading “Distracted by my Own Breath”
Waiting for 2010
New Year resolutions are the worst. Seriously, I sometimes feel like you have a better chance of accomplishing goals if you call them anything EXCEPT “New Year Resolutions.” Most of mine usually involve promises to work out more and eat healthier, sleep more, work harder, etc. I like the idea of starting off fresh but maybeContinue reading “Waiting for 2010”
Living in a Material World
My love/hate relationship with commercialization in society… Christmas shopping is overdone and over commercialized in this country, but unfortunately it doesn’t stop with the holiday season. America is extremely materialistic and commercial year-round. This is something I had always known but didn’t start to understand until my first study abroad experience. I spend a semesterContinue reading “Living in a Material World”
