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You’ve taken the courageous first steps to fulfilling (or killing) a dream… now what? How to survive the J Curve.

February 21, 2023 by Peter

Taking the courageous steps to pursue a new dream, you will face and have to survive the J Curve in order to turn your dream into reality.

Categories Career, Courage, Life, The Gray Bear Tags Career, Courage, Life, writing Leave a comment

Is your life designed by committee? If so, claim your role as your own committee chair.

January 4, 2023 by Peter

Advice from other people is always based on their own biases and experiences. Take control of your own decisions and don’t live a life designed by committee.

Categories Career, Decisions, Life, Uncategorized Tags Career, Life, Values 1 Comment

Loyalty to yourself isn’t as simple as it sounds

December 20, 2022 by Peter

Are you most loyal to your past self, to your future self, or to a fictitious self created by other people? The answer should almost always be, “It depends.”

Categories Conflict, Courage, Decisions, Life, Parenting, Uncategorized Tags Courage, Life, Values, writing 2 Comments

Six reasons you betray your future self, and how to stop doing it

December 6, 2022 by Peter

Saying yes to something new can be hard. Don’t betray your future self by giving in to all the bad reasons and external pressures telling you “no.”

Categories Career, Decisions, Life, Uncategorized Tags Life, Values 2 Comments

Quiet quitting before it was cool—Counting down to retirement in 1989

November 22, 2022 by Peter

When I was 23, I had a coworker who was counting down to retirement. I decided I didn’t want to be him in 20 years, so I made a change. You can, too.

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Play and art are important at every age

November 2, 2022 by Peter

We spend so much time focusing on achievement, financial success, wealth accumulation, and reputation, we often forget how to include play and art in our lives.

Categories Life, Parenting, Uncategorized Tags Life, writing Leave a comment

The best approach is the one you actually use

October 18, 2022 by Peter

You can overpay for the best “solution” to your problem, but if you don’t use it, it’s worthless. The best approach is the one you actually use.

Categories Decisions, Life, Uncategorized Tags Decision Making, gray bear, Life, Values 1 Comment

The death of a future story you’ve been telling yourself

October 11, 2022 by Peter

We all tell ourselves stories about our future. Some are our own, and some are forced upon us. It’s always hard to go through the death of a future story.

Categories Courage, Life, Uncategorized Tags Courage, Life, Relationships, Values 1 Comment

If you’re quiet quitting, you are part of a long and honored tradition of choosing mediocrity

September 21, 2022 by Peter

Quiet quitting has been around since the first boss held the first post-mortem after a failed mammoth hunt. Let’s talk about workforce dropouts instead.

Categories Career, Life, Uncategorized Tags Career, Life 1 Comment

How being 100% certain of your own logic creates unnecessary workplace conflict, and what you can do about it

September 14, 2022 by Peter

Unnecessary workplace conflict is often the result of people digging in to entrenched positions. Here’s how to disentrench and seek solutions.

Categories Career, Conflict, Leadership, Life, Uncategorized Tags Conflict, Empathy, Leadership, Values Leave a comment
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