January 2012
10 posts
Jan 17th
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“I think you are a little crazy… My husband works as an HR rep and he said...”
– Nikki Browning, Facebook
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Jan 7th
Job #2 - Night Receptionist
To me, the title of receptionist always evoked 1960’s ladies with hair in a bun, like Lily Tomlin’s Ernestine the phone operator. Maybe it’s due to these sorts of connotations that a secretary is now called an assistant. All assumptions aside, a receptionist is an entry-level position in any industry you’re part of. In mine- production- it’s a way to start...
Jan 6th
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Jan 4th
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December 2011
7 posts
“Winners, I am convinced, imagine their dreams first. They want it with all their...”
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Dec 23rd
Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 14th
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Advice
Today I got in touch with my personal friend and expert on crazy ideas- Mark Malkoff. He’s a guy who visited every one of the 171 Starbucks in Manhattan in a single day, and purchased and consumed an item in each! lived in Ikea for a week broke the world record for most continuous flights by staying on an airplane for a month raced an NYC crosstown bus on a tricycle- and won! I wanted...
Dec 7th
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“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man...”
–  Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,” Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
Dec 2nd
Preparation
When people take on huge goals, I always imagine they must have some unhealthy addiction to success. Or some gene missing in their DNA that makes them abandon practicality. How could you be so sure that your idea is going to work out? And yet it seems that those people whose ideas do work are exclusively among those who KNEW IT WOULD from the beginning. But it’s really not true. Successful...
Dec 2nd