Tweet If you have a blog you’ll attract trolls. If you have an opinion, a position, anything - you’ll attract people who disagree, and a few who are violently or rudely opposed to you and your idea or input. If you comment on someone else’s blog, or participate in anyway online - you will encounter pinheads, jerks, trolls and flamers who have no lives and no goal in life other than to make you miserable.
I have some good advice for dealing with all of them. Respond ONE time …

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Time. I think I’ve wasted 2/3’s of my life worrying about and fixing or trying to fix what other people think is urgent. I …

If you were raised to believe you weren’t “good enough,” as I was, then you probably have a hard time taking risks that may confirm to the whole world that what they thought about you was/is true - that you’re not good enough.
In my life I have rappelled off buildings, cliffs and towers and once out of a helicopter. I have been a raft guide and kayaked rivers that are deadly and that have literally killed dozens. I’ve hiked the Appalachian trail through three states by myself. I’ve lived …

“You always have the power to reinvent your career. But with that power comes a significant responsibility: being accountable for your own success.” - Sally Hogshead
One of the most amazing things I’ve realized recently is that good or bad, no matter what the situation is that we’re in, we have in some way contributed to our getting there. On the one hand that could be seen as depressing because that’s just one more thing we can kick ourselves over. But on the other hand - how empowering it is! …