Financial instability can take its toll on relationships at work and at home. Surviving under pressure becomes the game. It’s a game I’m all too familiar with. It’s easier some days, or it’s tartarus and the never-ending pit of hell on others. Today was a good and bad day. That pretty much sums up most days. It can change from an hour […]
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When Self-Motivation Matters
I had one of those bad days yesterday when I wondered how I was going to stand up, dust off, and try again. It all sounded like a waste of time when I heard myself thinking it. I have incredible drive. I’m constantly networking with people, reading, processing out loud or in writing, and thinking […]
What Are You Afraid Of? #fearoffailure
A friend recently asked me the question, “what are you afraid of”? “Losing everything”, I said. As I think about my response, I think about how failure is inevitable as an entrepreneur, and yet we can still avoid losing everything if we proceed with caution and exercise calculated risk. Sometimes when we are focusing too much […]
What Next
It’s hard to find and follow a thread of hope weaving in and out of the every day. Especially when we have so much tugging at us. Our little ones who need more than hugs and kisses. Our fears of losing more than we can imagine. Our high-risk jobs, with variable income. And of course, our diminishing bank accounts as […]
How Bots Botched Humanity #technorevolution
Imagine a future state where we are using bots more than people. Where, as Stephen Hawking predicted, we pay people NOT to work. How will people interact with one another – either at work if it still exists for them, or in society? Now think about today. With an ever growing desire to lower margins […]
Humanitarian or Corporate Dweller?
The other evening I was asking a friend why she stopped practicing medicine. She was a family doctor working in a community clinic. She explained that the health insurance requirements became ridiculously overwhelming. She only had 15 minutes to see a patient and spent at least that much time filling in paperwork to collect insurance […]
Developing Yourself
At some point when we hit adulthood or career-hood, we stop thinking about developing ourselves. It could be from the feeling of having all of our emotional and social needs met – like being in a cozy relationship with someone, or loving our co-workers and what we do at work, or loving being a full-time parent. Whatever the reason, […]
Idea Factory, Volume One
I have a secret and brilliant idea that I’d love for someone to take on. Are you ready? With SXSW in Austin, why not create a local Bumbershoot music/tech fest of sorts? I’d love it here. I don’t want to go to Austin UNLESS we are unveiling our latest coolest gadget. But short of being an […]
#TheLostGenerationX – #AllEyesOnMillennials
By Agent M1 on February 4, 2016 in Entrepreneurism, Exit Strategy, Fireside Chats, Riffs & Ideas, Weekly Survival, Work Life Balance
Ever read the book “A Moveable Feast” by Ernest Hemingway? He demured in Paris in the 1920’s, with the likes of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and F.Scott Fitzgerald. This group of literary geniuses was also known as La génération perdue = The Lost Generation. Similar to Gertrude Stein’s self proclamation during a depressed time after […]
Leadership Beacon #PassionEconomy #CovertLeadership
When I think about the many inspiring people in my life, driving and leading for change in small and large ways, I picture a beacon flashing in the distance, just barely visible through the fog. And our job as groupies is to try to track it, reach it and catch it with our head, heart and […]
