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A feel-good morning microblog of uplifting insights and inspiration from long-time life coach, career counselor, existential adventurer, and award-winning resume writer, Cliff Flamer
Oftentimes we have to see all other possibilities before we accept what we have.
It happens a lot. I will work with a client to generate alternative career ideas. We’ll talk for a few hours, we’ll do assessments to come up with lists of hundreds of job possibilities, W… Read more...
I’m tired of fighting. I wish I didn’t have to fight.
I wish I could live in my little corner of the world and create love and books and resumes and be a dad and a husband and a neighbor and nothing else. I don’t want much but I’ve come to notice that so ma… Read more...
Seems like every election cycle is more and more pivotal. Or perhaps we just care more and more as we get older…
Whatever your cause or case or situation, you probably believe, like the rest of us, that this election is going to make or break the country. We’re all hop… Read more...
The older couple next to me does their ritual. One man unfolds the plastic wrap around a single sandwich and puts each half on separate plates. The other guy uncorks a bottle of wine and fills 2 plastic cups to exactly the same height. They sit in low-back chairs with their bare … Read more...
Video is not enough anymore. Objectivity is gone. There is only storytelling, and the storytellers rarely work with what’s in front of them. They care more about what’s inside them.
We do whatever is necessary to keep our own beliefs intact.
Two people can watch the sam… Read more...
It’s a beautiful thing to support someone suffering oppression, to be a self-less ally who steps into their own discomfort for the greater good…
But watch yourself, white people. Condemning other white people is the easy way out. Vilification is a selfish act, not a se… Read more...
A curious thing about me.
I’m a straight man and I love to sing female fight songs – ideally, anything of the “I Will Survive” variety. Songs like Madonna’s “Do You Know What it Feels Like for a Girl”, Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable… Read more...
I talk to a lot of people who have good reasons to give up, reasons I can’t (and don’t) challenge. Often they’re right. Things are dark, the doors have closed, and the hands have slipped into their sleeves. It’s hard to see, let alone walk.
But there is alw… Read more...
Perhaps it’s the work I do which requires the baring of souls, but I get this feeling that the whole world is aching, as if we’re all burnt and bloodied fragments from the same faraway explosion, a flash of light against the black, casting off descendants in pieces.
We… Read more...
If you’re looking to change someone’s mind and by this, I mean their core beliefs, which are usually equivalent to their political views (dangerous turf these days!), I have a strategy for you:
Be patient.
Views honed through decades of experience don’t change wit… Read more...