Tag: dailyprompt
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Just a few pushups
I sent the text: I’m on my second round of pushups to deal with these frustrations. It seemed like a healthy choice. Instead of letting my blood pressure rise, I could work off the frustrations and then return to my desk renewed in mind. Of course, I would get physically stronger over the days, but…
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The good thing about tantrums
Years ago, I needed to know how to deal with toddler tantrums. I was at my wit’s end but knew there was some information somewhere out there in the world that would help me. I learned that it was just part of the child’s development, something you get through calmly, and not necessarily an indication…
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The underperformers
All of my research this week about layoffs has me scrutinizing my own life. The part that hits hard right now is the idea that we as a business collective do mass layoffs because we don’t want to deal with actually firing people for poor performance. I wrote a whole article about how we just…
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This one reason drives too many layoffs
We often talk about layoffs a cost cutting measure, but it could be down to one other issue. We don’t know how to give feedback. Sometimes, those rounds of layoffs are thinly disguised ways of getting rid of employees who are not up to standard. Except you may have never told them the standard in…
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To see me
I rushed over as soon as I got the chance. A group of my former coworkers were meeting to exchange stories over coffee. I couldn’t pass up re-uniting and getting updated on the gossip. But as we shared what was new, I found myself giving updates on how I’d been feeling. I weighed how my…
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Creating time
I have a major problem. I have watched zero fashion shows this month, and we are already deep into fashion month. I have a couple of shows that I have been meaning to watch, and yet I have not yet pressed play. If fashion is my hobby, if it’s something I enjoy, then why haven’t…
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It shouldn’t be this hard
It shouldn’t be this hard. I bemoaned, yet again, the same woes. Because it took me longer to do the task, because I was distracted easily, because it was hard to get out of bed, because I can’t just wake up and go, powered and directed just by passion and goals. My struggle was a…
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All I could be doing
I caught myself mid scroll, frantically hoping for another hit a quick video. I find myself way too often searching for video after video to entertain myself. There I am waiting for algorithm to make me laugh or think. When instead… I could be reading a book, getting lost in composing images of the fictional…
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I have my eye on this North Carolina gem
I spent some time stalking Raleigh, North Carolina on Google Maps. As I zoomed in, the spa appeared: The Umstead. And at that moment, I decided that I need to go there some day. It looks like a cozy retreat, with fine dining and a spa. Add a spacious room and there’s nothing else I…
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Decluttering
There is a pile over there, haunting me, taunting me. It contains all of the papers that I told myself I would need to get through. Of course, there might be an important detail in there that I will need at an yet undisclosed point in time. I can’t let go of it, because I…
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