Tag: life design
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Not the makeover I was expecting
I went over to the Ami Cole booth at Sephora. All I knew was that it was an up and coming beauty brand. I decided to take the time to ask the founder, Diarrha N’Diaye, why she made the leap to start the line. She recounted how she knew that was the work she was…
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I should do this
I had the opportunity this weekend to lead a workshop. I put people in groups, I facilitated conversations, I felt like myself again. I knew I enjoyed doing that, but I hadn’t had the chance to do it in so long. In the book, Designing Your Life, the authors talk about paying attention to the…
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Me centric life design
I have been diving in the user centered design this week. Essentially, it is thinking about how the people who use a product will experience it and using that to help you design the product. That is an over-simplification, but it gets the job done. I couldn’t help but wonder, am I centering me in…
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Maybe I’ll get waffles
“Hey let me know what the plan is for brunch tomorrow.” I’m hoping we can get the details ironed out soon. We made plans to try a new restaurant and generally enjoy each other’s company over some hopefully good food. As much as I could find the things in my life to criticize or regret,…
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Forgive my eavesdropping
It was a chance sighting in the store. I overheard the customer speaking to the cashier. Her thesis: Life is too short to not do what makes you happy. Life is too unpredictable to save all your wishes for some day when. Sometimes, your joy is the best justification for spending your money. She wasn’t…
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Watching other people live life
They call them vlogs, those videos where people show you how they are living their lives. They take you with them to the grocery store, the camera perched in the child’s seat in the shopping cart. They take you out with them to Starbucks, and you can see exactly how they order their drinks. They…
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Just a friendly push
There is a lot of ideas I hoard, hoping for a better time to put them in action. There are dreams I have set aside because it just doesn’t make sense right now. And of course, I can wait to see that persona another time. But that is not true. These opportunities are not guaranteed…
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More traffic, more reflections on my life
Traffic gives me a lot of time to think. Mostly about how horrible everyone else is as a driver. As I approached the interchange, traffic slowed. Everything was backed up as people tried to switch lanes. Often times, they hold up multiple lanes as they tried to switch from the left most lane over 4…
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So, you’re a disappointment
Something has happened which has made you utter to yourself, “Why am I such a disappointment?” Or perhaps, someone has give you that label, a disappointment. If you clicked on this article, I am here to give you some perspective. Maybe you are in fact a disappointment, as according to Merriam Webster, “one who disappoints.”…
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Unless you’re a martial artist…
Unless you’re a martial artist: Stop making your next move dependent on what everyone else is doing. Think to yourself, does it really matter that x is doing y? (Or bluntly, what your ex happens to be doing, for those who need to hear it.) For instance, say all of your friends are already married…
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