Tanisha Drummer Parrish The following is an excerpt from a blog post from author and leadership guru John C. Maxwell. German statesman Konrad Adenauer said “We all live under the same sky, but we don’t all have the same horizon.” If you desire to seize new opportunities and open new horizons, then you need to add big-picture thinking … Read more
The following is an excerpt from a Harvard Business Review blog article by Linda Hill & Kent Lineback, authors of Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader. The stereotypical bad boss is one who marches through the workplace barking orders left and right. But there’s another type we’ve probably all experienced at … Read more
Recently I’ve had conversations with friends that further confirm that I’m an adult. If it was not clear already, it’s clear now. I won’t go into the details of the conversations, but I walked away thinking that life isn’t that perfect package that we dreamed of when we were younger. No one finds the man/woman … Read more
“You need to find a way to scratch that itch without completely jumping ship. – J.Forde Recently a friend told me that I needed to find a way to scratch my travel itch without completely jumping ship. What she meant was that I need to find a more scaled down way to satisfy that need … Read more
Lately the world seems to be full of haters according to those 25 and younger. If you listen to music and status updates on social networking sites, you’d think that “hating on people” was a full-time, well paying job. This is not a new profession, it’s just talked about more than ever. Everyone is faced … Read more
I have this rule of thumb. Whenever I see or want to do something and the question, “Should I do it?” pops in my head, I wait two weeks to see if it’s still on my mind. If, at that point, I still want to do it, then I do it. This strategy works well … Read more
“What’s unique about this situation is its something that came to you versus you going after it.” – Heidy Kwan The above quote was spoken by a friend from business school 6 months ago when we were talking about my new job. At the time, I was on the fence about whether or not I … Read more
“Be yourself, because everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde Many of us say that we would love to have a zero hour workweek without thinking about what that really means. Is it that we don’t have to get up and go to work everyday or that we’re getting paid to do something we love? I … Read more
“Invest in yourself. How you invest your time determines your return on life.” – Jullien Gordon T’is the season of giving and thinking about others in need. While giving to others is important, don’t lose yourself in others so much that you forget to take stock in yourself. Invest in yourself personally by buying yourself … Read more
Go ahead and decide. Making a decisions will not get easier by putting it off until later. When a decision is called for, go ahead and make it. If you keep your options open for too long, those options will no longer be available to you. Choose one option based on the best information you … Read more
