Senia Maymin, Ph.D. – Brave Job Search
Senior Leaders: Get a new job *before* you get laid off
I didn’t know that. I’ve liked ChangeThis for years, and had no idea it was a Seth original.
Here’s Seth Godin’s post encouraging everyone to write an e-book. Update: Here is Barbara Ehrenreich’s post encouraging everyone to not write a book. Both have valid points, and their ideas are not contradictory.
Hi… send me an email (seniacom #at# senia (dot) com) if you’re in Boston on Thurs, Fri. And let me know if you’ll be at the Women’s Congress and want to meet up.
Best,
Senia
JUSTIN.TV
This is one guy for the past nine days wearing a video-camera on his head all day, every day. The front page says “he won’t take it off until he dies.” Follow him live at justin.tv. My brother Allan is a big fan of this idea and this project and sees huge value in it. I like the idea a lot. It’s like the most detailed realtime participatory blog you’ve ever seen.
NEWSATSEVEN.COM
This is an NSF grant project of creating news using avatars to tell the news and gather it together. I like that it uses both news stories and blog reactions. That’s relevant to how people actually look at a topic – both in the news and online in blogs. Enjot newsatseven.com.
Both cool sites. I’m especially looking forward to following Justin.
Just as you think you have something going well and straight and regular, it’s time to shake it up! Really. How long can you keep the same straight, regular going – and have it be enjoyable to you or to your colleagues, your readers…?
It’s got to always have a lot of pizazz! A lot. And you may come up with ideas that don’t work, but you may come up with a lot that do! And you get into the habit of creating newness, creating life.
In the comments are some ways I’m thinking of playing with newness on the Positive Psychology News Daily site.
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symmetric green lights.
This is so absolutely wrong – what’s happening to Kathy Sierra (she received death threats and disgusting things were blogged about her and very disturbing images were made of her on other sites – you should know that if you’re going to click through). There’s an expression, “Throwing diamonds to the swine.”
She has had wonderful posts. She’s a real person. She has been as for the community and for moving the world forward as possible. And then this happens.
Ok, you can say some person is sick. You can say some person is disgusting. But what really, really sucks is that this instills terror in Kathy. How absolutely wrong. How absolutely wrong.
I really hope the police can trace the person and people by their IP addresses, by their posts. So wrong. So wrong for her to be in this situation.
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
Be bold. … Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
~ Alan Alda
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
~ Marianne Williamson
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
~ Dale Carnegie
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
Don’t be humble; you’re not that great.
~ Golda Meir
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
~ Malcolm S. Forbes
Hi, Welcome to Question Friday. I receive daily quotes by email, and below the quote, there is a brief summary of the person’s life.
It’s not easy to summarize our own bios from five sentences to one or two, and here, whole lives are summarized and in a wonderful way too! If you were writing the bio to appear underneath some of your quotes, what would you want the quote bio to say?
Q: How would you write your quote bio?
Here are some examples, and my italics of some great phrases in them:
About Richard Bach
Richard Bach, the American pilot and author, became hugely successful with the publication of the slim novel Jonathan Livingston Seagull a spiritual quest about a bird who loved to fly rather than seeing flight as a means to an end. He was born in Illinois in 1936, a descendant of composer Johann Sebastian Bach. He has been an Air Force Reserve pilot, a flight instructor, and a barnstormer; most of his books involve flight either directly or as a metaphor.
About Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams was the pen name of Thomas Lanier Williams, the multiple-award-winning Southern Gothic playwright best known for his plays Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie. He was born in 1911 in Mississippi, where he had a difficult childhood with an abusive father, a smothering mother, and a schizophrenic sister. His emotionally honest plays often feature sensitive souls who don’t fit into a confining culture. He spent most of his adult life in New York City. He died in 1983.
About Virginia Satir
American psychotherapist Virginia Satir played a central role in shaping family therapy. She was born in Wisconsin in 1916. While working as a teacher, she became deeply involved in the lives of her students and their parents. This led to graduate school and a career change. She took on the mission of inspiring therapists to work with families. She cofounded the Mental Health Research Institute in California, where she held the first-ever family-therapy training program. She died in 1988.
What’s your quote bio?!
BTW, do not be intimidated by the fact that these bios above are of well-known people. Write yours as just that – yours!
p.s. Brag! :)
Best,
Senia
“You can’t get anyone to change unless they want to.”
“What’s the point of picking an argument? I’ll still have my views and you’ll still have yours.”
“People who push someone to do something usually just wish someone would push them instead.”
“Forgiveness is the lynchpin of humanity.”
“I don’t spend my energy in battle.”
A colleague of mine from the MAPP program, Margaret Greenberg, is an executive coach and runs a organizational effectiveness consulting practice. She says some absolutely wonderful things! Margaret emphasizes fulfillment and balance in working with individuals and teams. I am big fan of Margaret’s action-based approaches. Some of my favorites of her quotes:
On concrete tasks:
“What’s the point of spending hours on something until you know what the value of it will be?”
On finishing projects and sending them off for comments:
“Get it out the door!”
And others:
“Start with WHO and WHAT you know.”
“We’re human beings, not human doings.”
Update: More Margaret-isms! (4-5-07)
* Our lives go in the direction we tell ourselves.
* What if it were easy?
* Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.
* When all is said and done, more is said than done.
* What would your future self, you 20 years from now, have to say about that?