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
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Everyone knows the old adage about the definition of Insanity – it’s doing the same thing but expecting different results.
I’m offering up a new one: Burnout – it’s doing something you’re good at but have no interest in.
Be careful.… Read more...
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How’s this for irony? I skipped my morning routine to write a book on the importance of having a morning routine.
Doh!
It’s so easy to slip up.
Even when we know exactly what we need to do to stay on course, we very simply just don’t do it – a un… Read more...
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These past 2 weeks have been totally different. Molly’s out traveling through the jungles of Japan with Evaline, our oldest, and I’ve been single-parenting Hazel, our youngest. I stayed home so that Molly and Evs could travel without a clock, without havi… Read more...
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My friend Kyle takes on a whole new persona when he goes on vacation. His wife has a nickname for it. She calls him “Vacation Kyle”. He’s carefree, takes risks, splurges, does things for the good of the group no matter what. He dances. He plays. He… Read more...
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All the books, all the podcasts, they’ll tell you the different ways you can improve, strategies to make yourself become truly alive. So much emphasis on striving, not settling for less than the moon and the rocket ship, when so many of us are just barely getti… Read more...
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My grandfather’s favorite thing to do was to sit under an apple tree at the bottom of a hill in his yard and smoke cigars. He’d have his shirt unbuttoned all the way, kind of slouched, moving the cigar to his mouth in a slow, sideways arc.
As a kid I found… Read more...
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If you’re ever obsessing over a decision or trying to figure out the best solution to a problem, try this:
Chances are you’ve already explored every possible scenario with your conscious mind. Time to call in the big guns.
Step one: let go of the problem-so… Read more...
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Weakened from the day’s events, both good and bad, I find myself laying on the couch scrollin’ through social media. (At the end of a long day sometimes it seems like the only energy I have left is barely enough to fit inside my thumb.)
Amidst pictures of … Read more...
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There is a moment when clients come to realize that I’m the real thing.
It’s usually on the phone, during our initial consultation to discuss their resume, when something clicks into place for them. They see a glimmer from way offshore.
I’m not sure i… Read more...
Funny, how we get a second try at things in life.
I used to play soccer. It was a huge part of my life growing up. Great friendships, lots of championships, all before I was in high school.
Then puberty hit, for everyone else, not for me, and the game changed. It became less about … Read more...