Category: Personal Development
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6 Resiliency Tactics for Women in Tech
Are you feeling burned out at work? Starting to think tech isn’t the place for you? Try these resiliency tactics to give yourself a fresh start.
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Is Goal-Setting Good for your health? Try this instead
When we focus too much on our long-term goals and think too far out it deters what we can do today and from what we are experiencing at the moment.
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Website Updates and Second Careers
Hello Everyone, You’ve probably noticed the changes to my blog. It looks more like a website now but no fear! I am writing more than ever. It just may not all be for Lilyotron. Since leaving my startup, and becoming a mother, I’ve been pondering about what I want to do next. I love being…
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The Vacation ROI
Wow. Where has August gone? Even though it’s still in the 90’s in Tennessee, summer is over. I watch the big, yellow school bus pick kids up on the corner in the morning. My dog barks every day at 3 PM when they’re dropped off. I swear, I even see some trees start to lose…
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Everything I had to Leave Behind
The first thing I left behind when I resigned from my job as an IT Consultant to start Doghead Simulations was a steady paycheck. I didn’t know that the fledgling company I was joining wouldn’t be able to pay me right away. I thought, quit my job, go to Beijing, show our brilliant idea and…
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Does Ambition Take the Fun out of Hobbies?
I’m currently reading On Writing, Stephen King’s memoir on how one can shape or mold themselves into a writer. King says writers aren’t born – they’re made. He has a lot of inspirational lines in his book. He has a lot of realistic lines too. In one of the passages, King says something to the effect…
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