June 29, 2010 In Uncategorized

is it really possible to jump out of your pants?

After one last day of madness in the prep for the kick off to the trip, here we are!

I haven’t slept in days (that’s actually not an exaggeration) and I’ve been nursing some severe road rash from somehow clothes-lining myself while running last week. (I do not recommend getting no sleep after maaaaybe a few cocktails with some friends at a bon voyage dinner, then trying to run in 100 degree heat the next morning.) After bloody knees, schlepping boxes 3 flights in what’s about the hottest June on record in Virginia and pulling all nighters with the best intern in the whole wide world- welcome the new Blue Lollipop Road. Launching this site tonight, coupled with a generous unexpected donation (Thanks Tim- whoop whoop!) and being offered another sponsorship, I have nearly just jumped out of my pants with excitement (even though I can barely keep my eyes open.)
That whole deciding what you want and going for it 110% thing? Yeah, what they say is true; You do get better and better at it and things just fall into place…

Cheers to wearing yourself ragged from doing what you love. I’ll take it!

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June 28, 2010 In Cool companies, News articles/Links

New Boss Every 7 Days

I’ve been following Sean Aiken and his One Week Job Project for a while now. He’s finishing up his documentary that will feature him working a job a week for 52 weeks. It will be available later this year. Sean promotes and has the desire to encourage us all to match our skill sets with our personalities, values and passions to make our careers. I couldn’t agree with him more. His documentary will be a brilliant thing for young people (or all ages for that matter) to be able to watch and learn from.

Thanks to Sean and everyone who has and is participating in this project. Yours is one of the many insightful ones that we’ll be able follow and draw inspiration from. It will keep us all confident knowing that whatever is out there that we want, we can go get it at any time.

Bonus; I’ve been in touch with Sean, and he and I are going to get together when I’m in Vancouver soon during my own project. How fun! Stay tuned for stories about our visit…

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