By: Giulia Traverso Last month I was in Brussels for the final review of the EU-project that has been funding my PhD. I was nervous and felt like I didn’t belong. The review went well and our work got approved. But what fascinated me was the state I tuned into [...]
By Guest Blogger: Giulia Traverso Here I am, sitting at my desk, trying to write something for the seventh time this week. I am supposed to write my first blog post ever. Instead, the only thought that keeps crossing my mind is that I hate writing. And whether the nuance [...]
Interview and Commentary with Cortney McDermott, first published in Serenflipity Q. Why should choosing what you do for work be exciting? A. Why shouldn’t it be? “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” -Mary Oliver You’ve got one shot at this [...]
(First appeared in Horoscope.com) Have you ever planned a road trip? Most of us have, and so we know that the basic things we need to know are 1) where we're starting from; 2) where we want to end up; and 3) the means, plus a plan or directions to [...]
Be a TED Speaker_Cheat Sheet V3
Sometimes your rock bottom can look a lot like being at the top to everyone else. Flashback six years: I’m sitting on a private jet, sipping an espresso, newspapers from all over the world neatly stacked beside me, on my way to Brussels for work, and … an essential piece [...]
First published in SUCCESS You made it. You set a crazy cool goal and you reached it! But now the excitement is wearing off and that nagging there-has-to-be-more-than-this feeling is taking its place. You tell yourself, “I have every reason to be happy, so why do I feel this way?!” [...]
Confession: I sorta have a lil’ to-do list fetish. There’s something about the instant gratification of checking off or, even better, drawing a thick line through a TO-DO…especially if the crossed-off list is super long. One day, while indulging my inner overachiever, my husband Luca said, “Imagine putting all your [...]
The way to know you’re doing it “right” is that it feels good.* Simple. Yet how many times do we keep trudging through a project, a situation, a relationship because we think we “should”? My invitation to you: Cut your should list in half. At least. And then cut it [...]
… a conversation with five-time New York Times bestselling author Caroline Myss Ram Dass once remarked, “I’m not going to say anything that you don’t know already. But the perplexing problem is that you don’t know you know.” Millennia prior, Plato taught that all learning is remembering. That’s what it’s [...]