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
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...
Dear _______________,
I want you to know that I’m happy about the person I’ve become.
I’m not perfect, I’m not always smiling, but I have a fire inside that never seems to go out, a fire you put there, or rather, spent years tending to, adding layers upon la… Read more...
We’re all on a quest for passive revenue – to make money while we sleep, but I’m starting to think that this is not the right aspiration for us.
We like to hate our work – it’s a widely accepted belief in greeting cards and on TV shows, for example &#… Read more...
One of the honors of which I am most proud is my high school yearbook award as Class Individual.
I was weird.
I used to wear purple suits, giant hoop earrings (in both ears, not just the left one), plaid MC Hammer crotch pants, used-car-salesman jackets, mismatched shoes, African p… Read more...
Ending the day with a clean desk
Retaining a calm mind in a noisy environment
Going away on vacation without having that insane crunch-mode period beforehand
Mixing peanut butter without spilling oil over the rim
Calling my mom frequently enough
Being content on a day I don’t w… Read more...
Life is full of transitions that connect the significant memories in our lives.
You can think of transitions like doors and the memories as the rooms on each side of the doors. There is a near-infinite amount of rooms but we tend to dwell on the same few, which makes this exercise… Read more...
What do you get from being good?
If this were an easy question to answer, I suppose there would be more good in the world.
When you work out, you get muscle.
When you eat, you get energy.
When you do art, you get what you created.
Being good, doesn’t directly correlate with anyt… Read more...
I saw a great episode of Queer Eye the other day where the Fab 5 convinced these 2 charming restauranteur-sisters to bottle up their barbecue sauce and sell it. Like everyone who is touched by the Fab 5, they cried. Over a bottle of barbecue sauce.
They’d been in business fo… Read more...
If you find yourself stuck in a loop, running an unwanted pattern, prisoner to a story that isn’t working anymore, it’s time for a review…
Clients come to me with well-rehearsed stories. Job searches require them to do so. The client tells me their story, as they… Read more...