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
Wouldn’t it be funny to watch a Buddhist monk run a high-growth Fortune 500 corporation for a year? I wonder how Zen they would be after an experience like that.
I’d watch that show – “Corporate Buddha.”
My point is, it’s extremely hard to balanc… Read more...
When you’re struggling to finish something you’ve been obsessing over for a while, sometimes the best thing to do is to give up.
I often discover the thing I’m looking for, on the way to the shower, sitting on the toilet, in the midst of sweeping the sidewalk, in… Read more...
When preparing for an interview, the tendency is to look at what the employer wants (i.e. the job description) and figure out how to fit into that. Well, you should, indeed, know what the employer wants, but that’s not the place to start…
Instead, go back to the basics… Read more...
Man, I like helping people.
“Help” is supposedly a weak word; it’s a no-no for resumes. One should never say “Helped with account…” One should always say “co-administered account…” or “Supported account…” or s… Read more...
You’d laugh.
So many people revert to the same fantasy when they’re bummed at work. They say something to the effect of… “I don’t know, maybe I’ll just go away to some tropical island somewhere and become a scuba instructor…”
I’… Read more...
“I’ve always thought about doing that.”
I hear this from clients a lot and my response is always the same: Go do that!
This is not necessarily about your calling. It doesn’t matter if this thing becomes your career or not. What matters is that you scratch th… Read more...
Companies are founded on epiphanies.
It’s usually a single idea from one person or a small group of people. This idea is raised up, cleaned off, and put in a glass box.
Then that same group of people focuses on convincing: convincing each other, convincing engineers, convinci… Read more...
In business, creativity, and relationships, our vision doesn’t often line up with reality.
Sometimes we fear that reality will fall short of our vision, which keeps us living in our ideals and not in reality. This is a lonely place to cling to – good in our mind but no… Read more...
Raise your hand if you have too much on your plate.
Okay, time to delegate. The first step is figuring out what to unload. We all usually make it to this step and then get stuck. We know what we want to get rid of but we keep holding onto it and then perseverate on why we’re… Read more...
There is a metaphor people use to illustrate the non-stop action and exhilaration of starting up and running a venture: it’s like building a race car while you’re driving it down the freeway.
A client of mine one-upped this image and likened entrepreneurship to jumping… Read more...