Are you getting everything you can out of this life?
A self-less, feel-good blog about love, life, and work by career coach and existential adventurer, Cliff Flamer
What do you get from being good?
If this were an easy question to answer, I suppose there would be more good in the world.
When you work out, you get muscle.
When you eat, you get energy.
When you do art, you get what you created.
Being good, doesn’t directly correlate with anyt… Read more...
I’m proposing a new holiday – Real Talk Day – where no one works and everyone talks about what’s important to them.
And you can’t just cop out and say “family.” You have to go deeper than that. And if you’re not answering the questio… Read more...
The idea of objective facts is slipping away.
We all used to work from the same set of finite encyclopedias, the very same elementary school principles. Good or bad, they were the same.
Now, there are so many sources, so many talking heads and talking articles coming at us through … Read more...
I think we all want to make the world a better place – through our job, through our personal pursuits, but it’s easy to get wrapped up in the responsibilities of day to day living, to get tired, and to be overwhelmed. Where do I start? How can I make a difference?
Well… Read more...
A common bit of resume advice you’ll hear is that you need to sell yourself, that your focus should be, first and foremost, on the employer. You’re supposed to think about their needs, what they want to see in a candidate, who you should be. And then be that.
This sa… Read more...
I’ve been asking the same question of people for 10 years to learn what’s important to them, beyond work. Psychologists call it the miracle question; it’s about removing confines and setting people just past the finish line so they can see what’s waiting f… Read more...
I saw a great episode of Queer Eye the other day where the Fab 5 convinced these 2 charming restauranteur-sisters to bottle up their barbecue sauce and sell it. Like everyone who is touched by the Fab 5, they cried. Over a bottle of barbecue sauce.
They’d been in business fo… Read more...
If you find yourself stuck in a loop, running an unwanted pattern, prisoner to a story that isn’t working anymore, it’s time for a review…
Clients come to me with well-rehearsed stories. Job searches require them to do so. The client tells me their story, as they… Read more...
To be a fool is a wonderful thing.
It means you’re naive, innocent, and trusting enough to be wooed into something out of the ordinary.
Having oatmeal fall on your head, stepping into a pair of shoes filled with shaving cream, showing up to an important meeting only to find a… Read more...
HATE cannot survive in the light.
It requires enclosed spaces . It forces us to see only the shadows of real things, but never the real things themselves.
HATE is clever. It is born where no one will look: in the echoing rooms of joyous friends holding hands and singing songs, offe… Read more...