by Valerie Gordon | Aug 17, 2021 | Career, Front and Center, Goals
If you could choose a superpower, which would you pick? The power to fly? A cloak of invisibility? The ability to be in two places at a single time so that when the kids are sick or daycare is closed you can be both at home with them and at work? I know what I’d...
by Valerie | Aug 13, 2019 | Advice, Career, Front and Center
I still recall the day at work I got called the A-word. No, not that A-word. The other one. The one that should be a good thing. That is a good thing. But was said in a way that made it clear it was anything but a good thing. “You’re so… (insert...
by Valerie | Mar 3, 2019 | Creativity, Goals
Two years ago, in the depths of what I didn’t recognize then as a dangerous case of burn-out, I had this crazy image. I pictured my busy, exhausted self falling on the sidewalk and cracking open, only to find dozens… hundreds… thousands of words...
by Valerie | Dec 16, 2018 | Advice, Creativity, Humor
An amazing thing happened just moments before I stepped onto the conference stage… I did a final wardrobe check — necklace not brushing against microphone, belt straight and secure, back of dress not errantly flapping upwards and exposing my behind —...
by Valerie | Jun 12, 2017 | Career, Creativity
Are you waiting to do something, you know, when the time is right? Is that project a bit late because you just want to fix one more thing? Deleting dozens of photos until you get the perfect shot for Pinterest? (Full disclosure – the image accompanying this...
