by Laurie Swanson | Apr 5, 2021 | Career Blog
I’m reading a great book called Niksen: Embracing the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing by Olga Mecking. Niks, in Dutch, means nothing. And the verb, niksen, means doing nothing, specifically without a goal or purpose in mind. To do nothing in America, is...
by Laurie Swanson | Mar 29, 2021 | Career Blog
I was talking with a young woman who had recently been laid off. She was unhappy. I listened to her talk and could feel both her fear and her blame: It will take me so long to find a new job I love Filing for Unemployment- ugh! Darn Covid If only management had done...
by Laurie Swanson | Mar 22, 2021 | Career Blog
I was listening to a recent call and the speaker said that your brain responds to the command 5 4 3 2 1 GO! She had heard about this from Mel Robbins – author of the book The 5 Second Rule. Which got me thinking. Let’s imagine that I might be procrastinating...
by Laurie Swanson | Mar 15, 2021 | Career Blog
I am in the process of decluttering. One of the hardest things, so far, is decluttering my book collection. I LOVE to read. I LOVE books. I LOVE story. A great story – whether in books, a great TV show, a documentary, a play, a movie or having one told to me –...
by Laurie Swanson | Mar 8, 2021 | Career Blog
There was this commercial when I was a kid from a product called Calgon and their tag line was “Calgon, take me away”. A woman was sitting in a bubble bath and I figure letting go of her daily tensions, shutting out the world and having a bit of “me” time. So true....
