I Quit My Job

For the longest time, I really resisted the idea of being an independent consultant. I was born to do more with my life. I have the pedigree to build a billion dollar business. Anything less would be settling. Settling for a lack of ambition. Settling for a lack of creativity. Just settling. There’s a full…

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Doubling down on personal branding

I set a goal in 2021 to focus on building my personal brand but have struggled to consistently deliver on this. I think a big reason is not forcing a medium that I don’t enjoy. This past month I think I found an easy repeatable format to help me build the content muscle: I’m starting a…

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Make Room for Thinking

I don’t know about you but I have the attention span of a goldfish if I’m not making a conscious effort. I spend a lot of time flipping through LinkedIn or Instagram on my phone. If you can work to remove the micro-distractions in your life you will start to feel a sense of space…

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“Favorite” Is Such A Strong Word

I’ve had this blog title sitting in my drafts since July 25, 2013. So almost two years now I’ve been thinking and avoiding favoriting tweets. I only have one tweet favorited and that’s from The Points Guy who did a video response to one of questions. Looks like Twitter was reading my mind, and my…

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Mint losing its appeal?

I woke up to this friendly marketing email from Mint: Text of email: Come back to Mint! We’ve noticed you haven’t logged into Mint for awhile, which means you’re missing out on some great new features. But you don’t have to take our word for it. We have over four million users, and here’s what they–and…

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Creating Smart User Documentation

Over the past year of my internship I have created countless tutorials and application guides. I have created video tutorials walking users through complex workflows in SharePoint 2010 Foundation and simple video tutorials showing off the features of an internal team SharePoint. I have created written documentation guiding users through the data management process in Salesforce.com…

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