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
That thing you have in your work history that doesn’t fit?
It’s an asset.
Think about it. Everyone’s applying to the same jobs with the same proposal of qualifications, trying to match their lives to the ambitious bullet points in the job requirements as perfectly… Read more...
Shaming doesn’t get us anywhere.
That’s what we tell children, yet as adults we don’t play by the same rules.
Worse still, we shame through our fingertips – not our voices – tapping out one letter at a time in private, safely tucked away from the impac… Read more...
If you want to see real change in yourself, start taking cold showers.
When you take a cold shower (or turn the water ice cold at the end as I do), you’re operating from your future self.
Your future self knows how invigorated you will feel after a cold shower. Your future se… Read more...
Life becomes unbearably hard as we get older. Piercing despair is already programmed in, particularly if we’ve led a life full of love, giving, connecting, and sharing.
Sometimes the pain gets so great, it’s hard to see or feel anything else. You immediately forget wha… Read more...
No matter how great yesterday was, we tend to plateau. Eventually, we get bored of our days (again) and long for NEWNESS: new experiences, new feelings, the rewarding climb to the next plateau.
This may sound crazy and you may hate me for saying this but I think we hide our own ma… Read more...
A client of mine wanted to inspire her colleagues to be more innovative so she took a survey of 1,000 staff to find out what they needed in the workplace to tap into their creativity and ingenuity.
400 people responded and what they said really surprised her.
She expected to get ba… Read more...
My daughter has this look she does when she’s listening. Her eyes stare off in another direction, her mouth opens slightly, and not a muscle in her face moves. You can almost see the gears
Every once in a million
It’s okay, it happens.
For those that don’t know, my resumes are my art. I am definitely putting a piece of myself into each project. It’s crazy, too, to put so much hea… Read more...
Grassroots movements look very similar in the beginning:
A handful of people, tired but excited, sitting in someone’s living room or in a church rec room (thank God for churches!) on a weekday evening, big smiles and big ideas.
Not much gets done in the first meeting. It take… Read more...
We’ve all had it. You’re at school. You’re at work. You’re on a bus. And you’re naked. Completely naked, for everyone to see. This is one of the most common stress dreams out there, right alongside the “running in the endless hallway” dre… Read more...