The guy who sold me my car cancelled the plates the very next week. Luckily, I didn’t know that because there was a November expiration sticker on the plate. So the fact that I was driving the car illegally for three months did not bother me. Until now. But now I’m at the DMV.
I know [...]
Self-managementAsperger's at work: Why I need a sick day to register my car
Posted to: Diversity | Self-management
December 1st, 2009
Don't be a snob about career advice
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November 16th, 2009
I have found that the best way to manage myself is by asking for a lot of help. The question is, how do you know who to take advice from? How to make business travel manageable
Posted to: Productivity | Self-management
November 11th, 2009
Last year I traveled almost every week. Some weeks I traveled to three different cities. Why men should give women flowers
Posted to: Office Politics | Self-management
October 28th, 2009
Here’s the deal with giving flowers. Women like receiving flowers. Men think flowers are stupid. This week's series: How to deal with Asperger Syndrome at work
September 29th, 2009
People often tell me that I should write career advice for people with Asperger Syndrome. This is because I am surrounded by people who have Asperger’s, and I have it myself. Please, do not tell me I don’t have it. First of all, it looks very different in men and women, and most of you [...] All career issues are religious issues. Maybe.
Posted to: Fulfillment | Self-management
September 28th, 2009
I starting to think that the most effective preparation for a good career is religion. Knowing a problem is harder than solving it
Posted to: Self-management
September 9th, 2009
Self-knowledge can solve all your problems. Because it's more difficult to understand what your problem is than to know how to solve it. Lessons in self-confidence (from Amanda Blank)
Posted to: Management | Self-management
September 4th, 2009
What I'm listening to right now: Amanda Blank. Here's a song to play when you're not at work. How to have more self-discipline
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July 8th, 2009
For a while I have been fascinated by the research about happiness. Some of my favorite research is from Sonja Lyumbomirsky, psychology professor at University of California Riverside. (She's great at listing really small things you can do to impact your happiness.) And from Dan Gilbert’s Hedonic Psychology Lab at Harvard. (I follow PhD students [...] How to be a tall person at work
Posted to: Management | Self-management
June 16th, 2009
The Institute of Social and Economic Research recently published a study about the connection between popularity in high school and earning power later in life. New York magazine, information source to the rich and popular, summarized the study like this: "This study may seem to burst our Revenge of the Nerds fantasies, but it's logical [...] Good grammar might derail your career
Posted to: Journalism | Self-management
May 19th, 2009
I love grammar. I can remember in sixth grade when we spent weeks parsing sentences. There was a moment of self-awareness when I thought to myself, “If I let anyone see how much I like this, I'll never get invited to good parties.” How to recognize bad advice about work
May 12th, 2009
Be careful who you take career advice from. Knowing who to take advice from is a really good skill for any aspect of your life, but especially in the field of work, because work is changing very fast right now. A lot of advice that was good ten years ago is not good now. And [...] Three times you should lie at work
May 11th, 2009
Everyone thinks transparency and authenticity are great. But sometimes you need to rein them in. I’ve talked about how I do this with my blog, which is really an example of how I rein myself in at work. There are times we each have to do this at work, and in some cases, we need [...] Five steps to make yourself great
May 7th, 2009
The best way to get control of your career and stability in your life is to be great at what you do. Superstars are not out of work right now. Really. Even in finance. If you have an amazing track record in your field of work, you’ll have a job. And if you need to [...] Gold digging Web 2.0 style
April 16th, 2009
The guy I’m sort of dating asks me, “Do you know Glenda Bautista?” Twentysomething: Gen Y is better than everyone else at marketing themselves
Posted to: Promoting Yourself | Self-management
April 7th, 2009
This is a guest post from Dan Schawbel. He is 25 years old and already, the New York Times has called him a "personal branding guru." Dan's book is Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success, and it just came out today. How to decide if you need a therapist
Posted to: Knowing yourself | Self-management
January 28th, 2009
I receive about fifty career questions each week. The questions have a predictable diversity, but not my answers. My answers are almost always the same advice: Know yourself better. How to shift between work and dating
January 23rd, 2009
Here is a map of where all the single men are: Change how you walk to change your life
Posted to: Self-management
January 22nd, 2009
We all know that people judge each other in the first five seconds they see each other. We talk about clothes, and weight , and tone of voice. But you can also judge someone by their walk. Make better decisions for yourself by watching decisions celebrities make
Posted to: Knowing yourself | Self-management
December 10th, 2008
This week's poll is about celebrities because I love peeking into their lives in order to see the world in new ways. I love learning so much that I think that’s even why I spent so much time with the farmer even though it was bad for a long time before I stopped dating him. [...] |
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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