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
It is difficult to make decisions when you’re holding up the world with both hands, and that’s often how we feel – with our jobs and our families – like we, alone, are holding everything together.
That’s why we let it go on for too long. Because it… Read more...
We all can pay homage to work.
Work is most often where we find the flow. Doesn’t matter if you’re stuffing envelopes or running a department. When it hits, you don’t want to be anywhere else. And hopefully, there are some people around to share that good feeling… Read more...
I put a dark blue sticky tab on the edge of my desk – not a full-on Post It, the kind of transparent tab you use to bookmark a textbook. I put it there because I was measuring the length of my carryon bag to make sure it fits the very specific parameters of the airline. It … Read more...
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...
“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...
The problem is the show we want to be on and the one we want to watch are two completely different shows.
The show we want to be on is a romantic comedy, the one where missed connections and happenstance lead to weddings and babies and new jobs. We already know the ending before i… 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...
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...
I’ve yet to be invited to give a commencement speech to a graduating class… but if I did I’d give this advice, above all:
Set aside 4 hours a week that you will, under no circumstances, overwrite with some other activity, even work, even play, even your very favo… Read more...