July 20, 2016
How to Organize your Life by Priority and not Urgency
A theory I have, that I’ve been working on putting into practice. Read some more on it here – How to Organize your Life by Priority and not Urgency.
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July 19, 2016
Lessons I should have learned in Elementary School
I had some thoughts on what I should have done more of in school as a kid and wrote them down. Here they are. https://everydaypowerblog.com/2016/07/18/lessons-you-missed-out/
July 18, 2016
Careers are not a Given
It’s not your employer’s responsibility to shape your career, you can move from role to role and job to job and establish yourself as someone that can accomplish things, get the job down and make it happen. They can provide you with training. They can provide you with opportunities. They can provide you with suggested. But at the end of the day, they cannot shape the course and direction of your career – only you can do that. Building a career, defining a career, it’s not a given, it’s a job and it takes work, sometimes extra, to make it
July 15, 2016
Does the Code ever leave the building?
Never. If you coded for 10 years, and then stopped because you had to focus on the growth and mentoring of others and didn’t have the opportunity to sit down in front of a keyboard and punch out brackets and semi-colons in your free time are you no longer considered a coder? No. What if you simply became bored with what you were building and tried your hand at other pursuits for a period of time, are you no longer considered a coder? No. What if you never coded and just today read Chapter 1 of how to do Python
July 14, 2016
The Distraction Subtraction
I’ve taken to using those productivity timer tools of late, being a little weary of what they offer. And what they offer is great. The one I am big on these days is Strick Workflow because it is so simple. It’s a Chrome extension, so easily installed across my various profiles and it has one job (but does two); Block access to sites for x period of time. Give you a break for x period of time. #1 is what I searched for, #1 and #2 is what I found. When we have so many notifications coming our way on