Romaine salad w/ baked salmon, corn, walnuts, avocado, tomatoes, red onion, feta and jalapeño+cilantro ranch dressing.
Lunch Break | Home Kitchen
Retirement Savings Check-In
For me, a big part of a satisfying work life is making sure my money is right. I’ve always had good money sense, but there are definitely levels to earning and growing your money and I want to buckle down even more to make some gains in the next year. …
False Starts, Pauses and Resets…
Well, it’s been a minute since I last posted. I’ve tried plenty of times to sit and write but, when I do, my motivation fizzles out and all I manage to jot down is a few paragraphs here and there. Nothing ever feels substantial enough (good enough) to share. So, …
Planning the Team Holiday Party is Not in Your Job Description
I have a coworker who loves to propose team activities, but never wants to plan them. You know the type. They always broach the topic with “We should do a team < fill in the blank >!” Then sits back and waits for any takers. Well this week, during a …
Encouraging Words For The Journey...
I’ve been in a holding pattern for the last couple of years. And while I’ve made attempts to break out of it, most of my efforts have amounted to false starts rather than the breakthroughs I was hoping for. It’s a tough space to be in at times. Because after …
And never again...
You read that right — SEVENTY-FIVE. And that was only between Monday through Friday. This week I clocked in 71 hours which included the weekend as well. There is nothing rational I can say about having to work that much other than the client is crazy and trying to meet …
This Sums Up Last Week For Me...
1. Last week kicked off with the FP&A director casually mentioning that a ‘draft’ copy of a debt compliance package was needed. So out of nowhere, I had to turnaround a massive package in a couple of days when typically I have 6 weeks of lead time. b. On top …
Q u o t e
“Action express priorities.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Time To Regroup.
July 1st. It’s a new month, a new Monday and my first day on a new project. I saw this quote a few weeks ago but wasn’t inspired to scribble it in my planner until this morning. Coming off of an exhausting weekend, I felt I needed the reminder to …
Worth the Read
Came across this Forbes article. The takeaway: Technology can automate bias, program prejudice and integrate exclusion. How? Because technology is only as good as its maker. And, has its limits. There is no shortcut or sidestepping our complex, deep-rooted human issues. Technology cannot replace mindfulness. Technology cannot exceed humanity.
Q u o t e
“To understand someone is to repeat back to them what they said better than they originally described it.”
– Dale Carnegie
Lunch Break | Zoe's Kitchen
Power grain bowl w/ Lamb Kafta
A List of Grievances in Support of a 3-Day Work Week
The title says ‘grievances’ but really these are receipts. My receipts. In other words, it’s my growing list of evidence to support my goal of a shorter work week. I’ve done the mental calculus dozens of times and have determined that if all the interruptions, bottlenecks, nuisances and mismanagement were …
Cheers to Me and Cheers to You, and Cheers to All of Us Powering Through.
Now that I’m squarely in 2019, it’s around this time that my New Year momentum starts to dip. By the time I’m 3 or 4 weeks into a new year my attention starts to shift elsewhere and the goal I’m working on gets sidelined. Sometimes it’s because I’m clocking more …
'Tis the Season of Performance Reviews
An unexpected perk I’ve gained since going freelance has been forgoing the piss-poor exchange companies call “annual performance reviews.” (*hallelujah*) When I did the 9-to-5 thing, my holiday vacation would start with this lingering mix of resentment and annoyance because I was coming fresh off of a performance appraisal. But …
The Reason So Many Bosses Are Terrible
Early in my career, I had a supervisor who was obsessed with face time in the office. Regardless if I had worked a full 8, 10 or 12+ hour day and had completed all of my assigned work, he wanted me to stay in the office if he and the …
Enough of the Grind.
It seems like ever since the term grind has entered our workplace vernacular there’s an inherent belief that it comes with most jobs. By the time you enter the workforce your expectations are tempered with an understanding of “the daily grind.” The understanding that work will be arduous, monotonous, mundane …
Take Your Paid Vacation
I figured I could either stare at a screensaver or go see it for myself.
Lunch Break | Somewhere in Rome, Italy
Pasta Bolognese
So happy to break away from the desk lunches, working lunches and power lunches and simply have lunch. This is what PTO (paid time off) looks like for me this summer.