mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

Prompt: Action. When it comes to aspirations, its not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen. What’s your next step? My next step is to write out my twelve next steps: one major goal for each month, which a bunch of smaller ones spread in between. Now I’m finally getting into a good swing of [...]

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Prompt: Writing. What do you do each day that doesn’t contribute to your writing — and can you eliminate it? This question is actually kind of annoying, because most writers know what doesn’t contribute to our writing– it can be anything and everything under the sun. But I’m sure that this specific prompt was chosen [...]

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I’m going out on a limb here to say something that may rub quite a few people the wrong way. I hate school. Knowledge is power, but the higher education system is a trap. Education is vital to an individual’s personal development, but a university degree is, for the most part, an illusion (or delusion) [...]

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As I write this, I have been in silence for over 24 hours; I haven’t spoken a single word in over a day. It wasn’t something that happened deliberately, but it simply happened because I’ve been in solitude and I rarely answer phone calls unless it’s a client or the BF or a BFF. I [...]

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Tonight I will be coordinating and hosting the Chicago branch of Brazen Careerist’s first-ever WORLDWIDE Meetup Everywhere Event called Crowdsource Your Career. Ryan Paugh, Brazen’s community director, reached out to me last week and invited me to participate in the new project, and I jumped at the chance to actually, you know, host and organize something [...]

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