Tag: personal development
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When I put out a Twitter call for career and life coaches interested in chatting it up on GenMeh, Nailah Blades was one of the first to volunteer. Nailah is an LA-based life coach (and the brains behind Polka Dot Coaching) who specializes in quarter-life experiences. Our interview was supposed to be video-based, but technology…
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Nope. The title isn’t a typo. So, I haven’t been in the best mood lately. Just scuff your foot in the dirt bummed out more or less. Heave a big sigh and throw your bag on the chair instead of hanging it up because the world is mean, so why should you bother with niceties?…
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A former coworker once forced me to read The Secret. Believe it or not, I am occasionally reluctant to hurt people’s feelings, so when she came into my office singing the book’s praises, I tried to listen with an open mind. She told me how she had declared her intention to meet a man a…
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I knew it wasn’t my scene as soon as I drew back the tent flap and saw a dozen spandex-clad people jogging through a circuit that involved turning two somersaults in the middle and then bounding to your feet to skip three turns of double-dutch. That’s what I get for being five minutes late, I…
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Imagine 25 people (strangers, even) all staring at you while they throw out words and terms to describe their perceptions of you and then more words and terms for areas you need to work on. And you just have to sit there and absorb it. That was my Sunday. It was challenging. Not because I…
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Gen Y has no gut instinct. Or so I declared late last night (N.B. When in the throes of insomnia, I sometimes throw out bold declarations and unfiltered non sequiturs on Twitter). On the whole, we’ve never made developing our intuition and using it as a guide in decision-making much of a priority. And why…
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There is a scene in the remake of Grey Gardens where Big Edie refers to Little Edie (her daughter) as an “acquired taste.” It’s meant to be contemptuous and passive-aggressively manipulative and controlling (the hallmark of their dysfunctional relationship), but it gets at the heart of the fear that so many of us secretly harbor…
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The very first interview I did for GenMeh turned out to be oddly prophetic. The Board of Love girls were pretty pithy, but their advice about the need to seek out and assemble support systems for various facets of your life is indisputably solid. We’re social creatures and even the most ambitious, motivated and fiercely…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. Photo by metal1944 For all of our big talk about doing things on our own terms, defining and measuring our success by benchmarks other than the…
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I’ve been visiting my family for the last few days and I’ve been thinking a lot about productivity. My father and I were discussing deadlines (this pseudo vacation happens to be full of them) of the physical vs. intellectual variety and the usefulness of putting conditions on work that normally requires creativity and inspiration to…
Generation Meh 