Posts Tagged ‘learning’

Balancing choice versus constraint

Friday, February 12th, 2010

It’s an interesting balancing act that many come to in their careers:  In some ways you feel very constrained, while simultaneously enjoying a multitude of options.  It feels weird.

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Just take the plunge

Saturday, January 16th, 2010

This has been an eventful week for me and my business – a key turning point.  This is the week I moved from planning to doing.

It’s scary, but it’s so wonderful to be doing what feels to be such useful activity.

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What can I learn from this?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

I enjoy learning new things.  In fact, that’s a major factor in how I spend my time.  It impacts all kinds of decisions.

But still, it’s a struggle.  I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, but I thought I’d expand on a couple of ideas.

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I don’t know what I don’t know

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

My thoughts today are about my lack of experience in marketing and selling my company’s services.  The problem is how to get started, because I don’t know how deep I’ll have to dig before I’m done.

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Five things I’ve learned in the job search

Friday, July 31st, 2009

It’s been an exciting week on the job-hunt front.  The best news is that I was able to speak with people at two companies which provide coaching services to corporate clients.  One of them sent me a job application on the spot, which I sent in yesterday.  I was reasonably pleased with how I was able to demonstrate significant coaching and business expertise to bring value to this company and their clients.

There’s a number of things that I’m learning through this:

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Learning in a different way

Friday, June 26th, 2009

I just got done hiking back from the north end of the campus where we had today’s Gregorian Chant rehearsal.  Last year I was in Wilko Brouwer’s polyphony choir group and was incredibly impressed with his teaching style.

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