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Ephemera

Random finds, quirky articles, and anything that capturing my attention at the moment. It’s a place to share fleeting moments and capture a snapshot of the world around us.

“It’s not that I’m right and they’re wrong. Or they’re right and I’m wrong. It’s just that we have different ways of approaching things.” Gretchen Rubin

“It’s not that I’m right and they’re wrong. Or they’re right and I’m wrong. It’s just that we have different ways of approaching things.” “You’re not doing this TO me, you’re like this with everybody in your life. I don’t have to be angry about it. I can just try to figure out a situation…

September 23, 2019
“Make it clear you have no expectations. You get extra points for empathy. Too many people reach out with an extraordinary level of entitlement: free things, introductions, a lot of time. Show an awareness of their circumstances.” Laura Vanderkam

“Set yourself apart as someone worth knowing.” “Make it clear you are credible.” “Offer value. Demonstrate how you can help.” “Highlight what makes you interesting. Successful people like connecting to other interesting people. Because it’s fun.” “Position yourself as a peer who is notable in your own right.” “Make it clear you have no expectations.…

September 23, 2019
“Learn by the act of doing. Rather than theory or conceptualizing. Or what too many of us do, too much research. Procrastination disguised as research.” Marie Forleo

“Start before I’m ready. We can kid ourselves by saying: I’m not ready to do that yet. I’ll be ready to go to the gym after Christmas. I’ll be ready to start writing once I get my fall break. Start before I’m ready. “Learn by the act of doing. Rather than theory or conceptualizing. Or…

September 11, 2019
“You can go there, sure. Be prepared to suffer the consequences. Rather than opening something you, you may close a door completely.” Lizzie Post

“There’s risk and reward. You risk a little something to get some reward.” “Being indiscreet to force a relationship int a closer space a little more quickly. If that’s a tactic that’s effective for you and you’re prepared to suffer the consequences for being too forward or pushy, that’s a choice you get to make.…

September 4, 2019
“I remember that so vividly. The nervousness I felt … going into that mostly Harvard room of writers, who had all worked on TV before, and feeling so overwhelmed and being so nervous I was going to get fired every day, for like a year.” Mindy Kaling

“Molly had an identical experience as I had when I first started working on ‘The Office,’ where I was the only minority and the only woman to work on the writing staff.” “I remember that so vividly. The nervousness I felt … going into that mostly Harvard room of writers, who had all worked on…

May 25, 2019
“So, you decide what you would DO if you could feel detached, then do it, even though your emotions are still attached. Then you continue to do it, until your emotions feel detached.” Karla Downing

“When you are learning how to detach, you have to “act as if” you are detached until you are. It takes a long time for your emotions to detach. So, you decide what you would DO if you could feel detached, then do it, even though your emotions are still attached. Then you continue to…

May 25, 2019
“Creative people often bristle at the suggestion that they have to stoop to market their ideas or dress them in familiar garb.” Derek Thompson, Hit Makers

“Creative people often bristle at the suggestion that they have to stoop to market their ideas or dress them in familiar garb. “It’s pleasant to think an ideas brilliance is self evident and doesn’t require the theater of marketing. “But whether you’re an academic, screen writer, or entrepreneur, the difference between a brilliant new idea…

March 5, 2019
“People have a mistaken notion that they’re going to arrive at some point where it’s going to be easy.” Marie Forleo

“People have a mistaken notion that they’re going to arrive at some point where it’s going to be easy.” Marie Forleo “You’re never going to arrive at that point.” Steven Pressfield “There is this veil. People have this mistaken notion that the people in the game… that they have some magical mystical thing that they…

February 13, 2019
“I’ve messed up in both directions: being self-centered, being a martyr; not knowing my own worth, not valuing the essential worth of the other. “To love well is to get the balance right. It’s the work of a lifetime. It’s art.” Elizabeth Lesser

“Love of self, love of other: two strands in the love braid. “I have braided these strands together in all sorts of relationships, in varying degrees of grace and ineptitude. “I’ve messed up in both directions: being self-centered, being a martyr; not knowing my own worth, not valuing the essential worth of the other. “To…

January 16, 2019
“That means I’m someone who is really enthusiastic first of all about learning. Second of all, about using ideas for myself to see what works and what doesn’t. Then third, with sharing those ideas, the things I think are valuable with folks who might also be interested and might also want to try these things.” Marie Forleo

“In this world of coaching and personal development and experts, I think the old model was all about some Sage On The Stage. “That’s always how I like to characterize it where someone was standing up there and pretending like they have all the answers and they never make any mistakes. “They’re gonna bestow upon…

January 15, 2019