In therapy lately I am learning to identify my feelings. Maybe you’re thinking this is elementary, but did you know that envy is about wanting something you don’t have, but jealousy is the fear of losing something you already have?
I am thinking about those two things. I am almost never envious, but I am often [...]
Knowing yourselfThings I wish I had written
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January 20th, 2012
How to manage a career in 2012
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January 16th, 2012
I have never been great at picking my own clothes. I’m great at interior design, but I have a blind spot for clothes. So I email Melissa photos of my outfits, and she uses her photographic memory of my closet to edit my outfits. I only [...] My New Year’s resolution: pay attention
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January 6th, 2012
Somehow, last year, I got too big-picture. It’s not surprising since I’m an ENTJ. I understand my deficit, which is one reason I picked the Farmer, an ISTP-–extremely short-term thinking. This is me battling impostor syndrome
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September 27th, 2011
This is the big test. Right here. This is the test to see if you will stick with me even when you know everything. There is lameness about me. Not the lameness commenters point out. Not like, I don’t know anything about graduate school. Or I’m not fair to David Dellifield. No. It's more fundamental [...] Overcome the willpower myth
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August 10th, 2011
This post is sponsored by Tempur-Pedic because we think you deserve to get your best night’s sleep every night. What Gen Yers don't know about themselves
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July 15th, 2011
Now that I’m not the CEO of Brazen Careerist, I don’t have to be the national cheerleader for Generation Y. I fantasized about this moment for years: the moment when I’d write the post titled, 10 Things I Hate about Generation Y. How to Reinvent Your Career
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June 29th, 2011
If you ask the Farmer, he would tell you that I was really really nice to him last week while he was in bed, immobile, strung out on six Percocet a day. I made him pies, and French toast, and meat at every meal because there is no amount of Percocet that would make him [...] Keys to getting unlost
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June 28th, 2011
My garden is full of vegetables that I never would have guessed I could grow. There is so much that I am not sure what to do with it all. Good plans feel unsteady
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May 31st, 2011
Cullen left. It’s unclear if he has dumped Melissa. I think he has. (If you missed earlier installments on this story, here's where I find Cullen in Melissa's bed.) It was the day that a TV writer emailed me about [...] Bill Zeller, Congresswoman Giffords, and mental health
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January 10th, 2011
Two things really rocked me today. One is the suicide letter from Bill Zeller. The other is the shooting in Arizona. My new path to self-discipline: DBT
Posted to: Knowing yourself | Productivity
December 21st, 2010
My new thing is self-discipline. I am going to get better at it. I am nervous writing this, because I don’t want to fail. Career change looks like Halloween
Posted to: Finding a career | Knowing yourself
October 31st, 2010
When the kids and I moved to the farm, last Spring, the first thing we did was plant seeds. The farmer took the kids out to an open patch next to a corn field, and he planted ten pumpkin seeds with them. Start recognizing patterns in problems
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October 15th, 2010
I think each person struggles with one, singular thing. I learned this when I was a graduate student in English. Each writer we studied actually wrote the same book over and over again. We each have a primary question in our lives. How to express your true self at work
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August 30th, 2010
It is harder to know who you are than it is to be who you are. Everyone says, “The important thing is to be yourself!” I say that when I give them career advice. People like you better when you are being authentic. Gay people do better in their careers when they are out of the closet. [...] How to be lost with panache
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August 23rd, 2010
So, I am lost. But I need to be useful more than I need to confess feeling lost. So, here I am, telling you what I'm doing to get through this, because I think you and I have an agreement that you'll put up with me being lost and not posting very often, as long [...] When you're feeling lost, don't hide
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August 16th, 2010
Feeling lost is part of being great. If you are forging your own path then you are often lost. Because you have not seen this route before. I wrote my book because I did not have a road map and I am wanted other people to have a road map to do a career like [...] The fifth annual Q&A. Or sixth. I can't remember.
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July 22nd, 2010
It’s the fifth annual Penelope Trunk Q&A. It’s not that I don’t answer questions. I actually answer almost every question I receive. But only rarely in a blog post. The problem is that most questions suck. Look, here are posts about how to ask good questions. List of things I hate #3
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March 4th, 2010
This is not an exhaustive list on the topic. In fact, it may be an inexhaustible topic. There are older lists of what I hate. So today's post is merely my most recent list. Do you overemphasize happiness?
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January 14th, 2010
I think I’m over the happiness thing. I think I am thinking that the pursuit of happiness is, well, vacuous. I don’t think people are happy or unhappy. Because I think knowing if we are happy would require knowing the meaning of life, or the ultimate goal, or the key to the world, or something [...] How to make yourself more likable
January 6th, 2010
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Super Bowl Sunday coup: Times Sqare is empty, which inspires me to try to get last-minute tickets to The Lion King. Orchestra seats! Score! 2 days ago
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