Asking My Mentor About… Making Time

This is the fourth installment of Christine and my monthly Peer-to-Peer Mentoring series. On her blog, I answered her question: “What methods do you have in place or have made use of that allow you to obtain objective feedback on your web-design to be sure...

The Expectations of Others

From the moment we are born we are shaped by the expectation of others. Their assumptions weigh us down. They sit like a backpack, heavy on our shoulder. Sometimes invisible to us. These ideas about us are not ours, but we can hold onto them as though they are. Our...

Beyond All the Negativity or Love For My Video!

I’ve learned something about myself. I have performance anxiety. It cripples me. It makes me freeze. When it envelopes me, it blocks me from seeing the whole. It’s hard to see out of it. All I can see is through it. I’ve had it since childhood, but...

Asking My Mentor About… Asking For Help

This is the third installment of Christine and my monthly Peer-to-Peer Mentoring series. Funny enough, this month, we asked each other near identical questions… on her blog, I answered her question: I LOVE doing everything myself. While I joke that I need a...

What’s Your Real Job?

Looking at your résumé, aside from it’s purpose to ‘get you a job’, would you say that it really shows who you are? Looking at mine (on LinkedIn), I am struck by how I appear in it. It says nothing about how I actually spent, nor spend, my days. It...