“Embrace your lizard brain. It’s the source of understanding why you’re in a job that sucks.”
Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
will be out Jan. 26. In the meantime, some members of Triiibes.com (his social media site) and those who responded to an offer to donate $30 to the Acumen Fund, received advance copies. I was fortunate enough to get my hands on a copy, so here’s my review. First, it’s a definite thumbs UP on the book. Buy it. If you need more convincing, read the review below.
If …

Are you the house on the left? Or the house on the right? Do you set the standard? Or do you follow? Are you the original? Or the “ditto”?

I’ve pulled on my “boots” and started walking into my future. And unless I need to do so to figure out how I got into a mess, I’m not looking back.
Too many of us spend our lives looking backward, not forward. We’re always glancing over our shoulder to see who, or what, is gaining on us. The trouble with doing that is, it slows us down. It takes our focus off of where we’re headed. It distracts us. Get distracted enough and you’ll get derailed as well. I know. Been …

Over the past month or so I’ve applied to dozens of jobs - thinking they would be a great fit or opportunity for me. In the past I’ve always taken the first job I was offered, usually glad to have any kind of job. Then, six months into the job it became very obvious that what I wanted, and what they expected weren’t anywhere near the same thing and we parted ways. Sometimes we parted amicably, like adults, and remained friends after the pain of the separation passed. …