May 2013
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“Patience is the art of hoping.”
– Luc de Clapiers
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3 Steps to Becoming a Better Learner
from Inc.com
Here’s a puzzle: Even though people talk about leadership all the time, and roughly eight kajillion leadership books have been published, we’re still plagued with fair to poor leaders in many, perhaps most, organizations.
Why is this? Part of the problem is that most of us, deep down, don’t really think it’s possible for an okay leader to become a great leader. We believe...
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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who...”
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“Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.—Herbert...”
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Share Saturday: What We're Eating
The Sokanu team has a habit of getting wood-fired pizza from this food truck about 3x a week for lunch. It’s…just so good. And it’s about 20 paces from our office. How could we not?
http://www.pazzarella.ca/
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“I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become”―Carl Jung”
3 Words I Wish I'd Heard When My Boyfriend Cheated... →
Wise (& hilarious) words for the creative. (And we’re all a little Creative)
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Early Riser? What You Should Do When You Wake Up →
“Life is too exciting to sleep”
April 2013
17 posts
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WatchMalcolm Gladwell: Choice, happiness, and spaghetti sauce
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Minimalism: Addition not Subtraction. | Becoming... →
Sunday Read - for your time around the house
Minimalism is less about the things you remove and more about the things you add. The joy of minimalism lies in what you choose to pursue with your life rather than material possessions.
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Share Saturday: What We're Playing
This is Seven Wonders. It’s not unusual for us all to play a game every afternoon.
Then we got the expansion pack. (Wood feather not included)
We love it a lot. Click photo to see the game.
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The Virtual Office Place: Productive or Disruptive... →
About half the Sokanu team regularly works from home. What’s your take on virtual offices?
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Falling in Love with my Imperfect Self
From the Change Blog
Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. – Oprah Winfrey
When it comes to change, people are more apt to do it for others than for themselves. It was no different for me when I morphed myself to be the “right” kind of friend, the “cool” girlfriend, or the “most dependable” employee. In each of those instances other people really liked me, but I...
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Jason Fried: Why work doesn't happen at work |... →
Ted Talks are just so good all the time.
Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn’t a good place to do it. In his talk, he lays out the main problems (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make work work. (Filmed at TEDxMidWest.)
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18 Foods you can regrow from kitchen scraps →
Happy Earth Day, friends!
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Habit Mastery: Creating the New Normal
From zen habits by Leo Babauta
Changing habits, at its core, is simply a process of changing what’s normal for you.
This is something I’ve done myself a gajillion times over the last 7-8 years:
not smoking became my new normal (lots of pain for a month or so)
running became normal
eating vegetarian became normal
later eating vegan became normal
writing every day became normal
not having...
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Reading for the Future
From The Daily Inforgraphic
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Passion Profile: Author +
“After a couple of years of self-doubt and continuing to work for other people, I realized that if I put my efforts into building my own business, I could be just as successful as I was making others.”
LaKesha Womack
What do you do?
I am a Small Business Consultant, Author, Host of an Online Radio Show and Minister.
How did you get there?
For a long time, I thought I had to...
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How to Use Your Subconscious to Change Your Life
By Karl Staib
from the Change Blog
“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” – Thomas Edison
Your subconscious loves to do work while your body performs other tasks that are easy. I can prove this very easily by asking you how many good ideas you have had while driving or in the shower. When you are relaxed yet slightly distracted, your mind is often at its best.
Using...
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Passion Profile: Entrepreneur
“It’s meaningful work that I am passionate about, that adds value to the world, that changes someone’s life for the better.”
Farnoosh Brock
What do you do?
I am a career expert, author, speaker, professional blogger and podcaster as well as a business coach who helps corporate professionals excel or make drastic career transitions from corporate cubicles. In other...
Adulting: Step 291: Be supportive when your friend... →
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When You Need To Stop Working for the Day
By Tamu Miles
You know those mornings when you wake up and your senses are not working properly and it’s as if the world is being transmitted to you through a layer of dirty cellophane? And what about your emotional state? Does everything get on your nerves, are you quick to anger, or do you feel like crying at the slightest criticism or suggestion? Do you feel like yelling profanities at no...
March 2013
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Introducing the best way to learn about a career
Sokanu is the place to help you discover what you want to do with your life—and today we’re releasing updates to each of our careers that reveal what a career is really like. At a glance you can see what the future of a career looks like, how compatible you are, and the average happiness rating of each career.
Explore and learn about a career today
Choosing the right career with Sokanu...
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Passion Profile: Film Director
“I find humanity to be forever fascinating and use film to uncover some of its secrets, sharing my findings with the world in hope that it might help them get closer to their inner truth and happiness in the process.”
Sabina Vajraca
What do you do?
I am a film director and a screenwriter. I’ve also been known to edit and produce my own films, shop for costumes, hold lights,...
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Are You Getting High on Self Help?
From Paid to Exist blog
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How To Change Your Life: A User's Guide
Another amazing article from the zenhabits blog
‘You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.’ ~Mike Murdock
By Leo Babauta
Start with a simple statement: what do you want to be?
Are you hoping to someday be a writer, a musician, a designer, a programmer, a polyglot, a carpenter, a manga artist, an entrepreneur, an expert at something?
How do you get there? Do...
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Walk while you work?
Incredibly helpful or terribly distracting… Maybe we’re trying to do too many things at once. Or perhaps this is the future of offices. What do you think? http://refreshed.is/2013/03/06/walk-while-you-work/
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4 Unique Working Styles
What’s Yours?
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Passion Profile: Acupuncturist
“I was physically feeling the disconnect between who I was being and who I could be. That gap was much more painful than the stomach ulcers, migraine headaches and panic attacks I was experiencing from the stress of my job.”
Michelle Ogunti
What do you do?
I’m an acupuncturist and owner of a Chinese Medicine clinic, Thrive Holistics. I use acupuncture and Chinese herbal therapy to...
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Monday Mornings and How to Defeat Them
From the blog Bad Language
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3 Reasons We Don't Like Our Jobs
From the Change Blog
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Why Waiting to Change Your Life Can Be Dangerous
from The Change Blog
February 2013
17 posts
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Passion Profile: Pastor
“When my wife and I moved to Florida for her career, I wasn’t sure how this older congregation would receive my spiky hair and outside-the-box personality, but they embraced me and encouraged my vision for the church and reaching out to young persons.”
Russell Clark: Pastor
What do you do?
I serve as the senior pastor at First United Methodist Church in Reddick, Fla. As the...
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Timeless Optimism: Five of My Favorite Tips
From the Positivity Blog by Henrik Edberg
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