Are You in the Right Job?

Now that I am in my 3rd career, I discovered a litmus test of finding out if you are in the right job. Ask yourself do you like the people you go to lunch with? When I was in the Army, I found it hard to find like minded individuals to chat about philosophy, politics, and books, so I usually ate alone sitting against a tree. When I was an elementary school teacher, I couldn't bear eating lunch in the teachers' lounge and listening to the gossiping and complaining, so I usually ate alone in my classroom. In my current job (now academia), I fill up my lunch plans every week with different coworkers that I genuinely enjoy chatting, collaborative brainstorming, and conversing with. After all I am not a loner luncher, I am finally in the right job around the right people for me.

Google's Larry Page Inspirational Commencement Speech at Univ of Michigan

"You know what it’s like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know how, if you don’t have a pencil and pad by the bed to write it down, it will be completely gone the next morning?

Well, I had one of those dreams when I was 23. When I suddenly woke up, I was thinking: what if we could download the whole web, and just keep the links and… I grabbed a pen and started writing! Sometimes it is important to wake up and stop dreaming. I spent the middle of that night scribbling out the details and convincing myself it would work. Soon after, I told my advisor, Terry Winograd, it would take a couple of weeks to download the web — he nodded knowingly, fully aware it would take much longer but wise enough to not tell me. The optimism of youth is often underrated! Amazingly, I had no thought of building a search engine. The idea wasn’t even on the radar. But, much later we happened upon a better way of ranking webpages to make a really great search engine, and Google was born. When a really great dream shows up, grab it!"

Flow = Happiness

Flow (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia via kwout

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment and flow

Video: 100 Ways to Show Children You Care

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Rudy Motivation

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1975 Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech - The Real Rudy Play

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How to Make Your "101 Things To Do Before I Die" List

I have made this list to give some guidance on how to make your "101 Things To Do Before I Die" List. I broke them into areas of:
30 Things I want to BE
30 Things I want to HAVE
30 Things I want to DO
10 Places I want to GO
1 Breakthrough Goal - The big next step goal that takes you to the next level. That would best enable all others.

Habit: Keep a "One-Sentence Journal"

Why:

5 Powerful Reasons to Make Reflection a Daily Habit, and How to Do It

Why I started keeping a daily “one-sentence journal” (ok, a not-quite daily journal).

How:

I have found the most practical and organized way to keep a journal is digitally. Set up a private blog or an anonymous public blog with Blogger

Office Politics

Worth the read: How to Improve Your Skills at Office Politics

I particularly found this tip useful.

It's very difficult to do office politics because you have to figure out the Venn diagram of what people are having a hard time with, and what you are particularly skilled at, and where those circles intersect. This means you need a lot of self-knowledge about your strengths, and you need a lot of emotional intelligence to understand what other people struggle with.

Video: Michael Losier Author of Law of Attraction

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