Last Friday I celebrated my last day of work in a job I wasn’t suited for. On Monday evening, I flew to New Jersey to teach a 3-day class on a technical certification. Right before I boarded my plane home, my worst short-term fear was realized. The project: cancelled. I return home from my first …
Category Archives: Vocation
New Opportunities
On Tuesday, I promised you news soon. When I first did my ‘passion intersections‘ months ago, I listed technology instructor as one. About 3 weeks ago, my sister made me aware of a teaching opportunity with the company she works for. I followed the appropriate process, and went to a 3-day training session in Philadelphia, …
Motivation
Happy New Year! I think. Hopefully your endeavors for the year are off to a good start. If you’re a leader working to motivate people, I have some ideas for you. Compensation alone can only motivate temporarily. Substantially higher pay for mundane work may get Samuel motivated to work on a project for a very …
David Seah Clarifies the Meaning of Productivity
David Seah has put together an excellent article on some of the foundations of creativity, productivity, passion and work. Check it out – it’s worth the read.
Day 41 of 48
Only one week left. I’ve made substantial progress internally, and have started to build a network of people who I believe will be instrumental in the journey. I have been with the book for several weeks, had time to reflect and have taken away the following: Being successful and sustaining by doing what you love …
Day 35 of 48
Last week, I finally finished 48 Days to the Work You Love by Dan Miller. The rest of the 48 days are dedicated to getting my music composition business off the ground. I’ve identified my strengths, weaknesses and passion core. I’ve learned what needs to be done to be successful. There are two basic paths …
New Beat-Dead Dad Column
You know I’m working on building my personal network, so here’s a little column I wrote for colaspot on the details of my personal “Yeah, I have a guy for that.”
Day 18 of 48
Over the weekend, while working on my daily draft (four lines of text to music each day) I managed to finish up the composition stage on one song. This happened to be a song I really enjoy, and I was able to get it into a rough demo. Today, I spent a lot of time …
The Occupational Adventure (sm): Success checklist
I suppose at some point I’ll just assume that everyone is reading The Occupational Adventure (sm). Today, I’ll still use it as post-ammo though. The Occupational Adventure (sm): Success checklist How many can you check off? For how many can you devise a strategy to check off?
Day 10 of 48
Sometimes the news that hits you like a ton of bricks is actually what you expected all along. I can’t really explain any more than that, but today, Dan Miller’s 48 Days to the Work You Love has me recreate my resumé. This is probably the oddest resumé I’ve ever created, but maybe that’s been …