Confidence is in the eye of the beholder. One of my professors in graduate school used to tell me that confidence is as much a rhetorical position as it is a real attitude that people carry with them. Just because someone is projecting confidence through what they say and the way they act has no […] Read more…
Don’t forget about you. I always thought I would I would go somewhere south and go to law school. But after I graduated I was crazy in love so I went to where he was. I moved to New York and it just kind of went from there. It’s funny because I didn’t think I wanted […] Read more…
You should realize that you can make any choice you want and have anything you want. The twenties are often a time of great freedom and fun but also insecurity. Worrying about money. Worrying about everything. Am I doing the right thing in my career? Is this right guy? If you were a 20 year […] Read more…
Yesterday 40:20 Vision’s contributing / Millennial editor, Stephanie Florence, attended Carrie Hammer’s ‘Role Models Not Runway Models’ Fashion Show in New York City. I remember when I went to my first New York Fashion Show. I was excited for the experience, but I knew I would be engulfed by feelings of inadequacy. I recall the […] Read more…
All we have is right now. I used to be a box person. I thought I could tie my life up in a bow and that would be it. Black and white. But I found my box seeps out gray matter and the ribbons get frayed. And realizing that makes life a lot more […] Read more…
Last week I went to another event from The Li.st, Burnout, Meditation, and Mindfulness: How to Survive and Thrive in the New Work Reality. It was a great way to start the new year. The evening before the event someone had asked if I was going and I said no….I had too much going on […] Read more…
New Year’s Eve…so full of promise and reflection…or maybe just planning for a fun evening out! I can’t believe it is almost 2015 but that must mean I had a good year. For New Year’s I gathered a few wishes from 40-somethings on one thing they would keep and let go for the New Year…based […] Read more…
I read Vanity Fair on the airplane this week and was surprised to find myself inspired by Graydon Carter’s letter from the editor about Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and his battle with Hachette over e-books and contemporary publishing. The whole letter (and article) is worth a read, but I liked this “corny but effective device” Mr. Carter […] Read more…