By Carlee Mallard, on August 7th, 2010% For as much as a planner as I am, I’m currently en-route to Montego Bay, Jamaica with absolutely no idea where I’ll sleep, eat, or how to get from one place to the next.
I travel a lot, but almost always at least somewhat planned. I’ll at least purchase plane tickets more than 3 days ahead or book a hotel or hostel room for a night or two (or know which friend’s couch I’m crashing on). Sometimes I go all out get guide books ahead of time and make a list of all the places I want to see . . . → Read More: Quit Planning & Just Do It!
By Carlee Mallard, on July 27th, 2010% I’m a wimp. I’m a hypochondriac. But I want to be strong, physically & mentally. After 2 months with a personal trainer & watching Twlight: Eclipse I’m that much closer to my goal. . . . → Read More: Confessions of the frail: I am STRONG
By Carlee Mallard, on June 28th, 2010% I’ve been writing over at The Next Great Generation for some months now (archives here), but my most recent piece took a lot of emotional labor to write and required learning some new skills like learning how to make videos in iMovie, so I wanted to make sure to share this particular one with my readers.
Bonnaroo was sort of this life-changing, mind re-wiring, boundary-testing sort of experience that I’ve been trying to comprehend for weeks now. This particular article (only one of many possible perspectives) focuses on my experience as a vendor specifically and why I probably will . . . → Read More: On TNGG: Volunteering at Bonnaroo
By Carlee Mallard, on June 20th, 2010% Sometimes you need to step away from the daily grind and try something new. That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing the past month:
Spoke at an “unconference”. As my most recent post stated, I gave my first presentation to a group of about 15 product developers, product managers, and others after giving a quick 20-second pitch to a group of about 100 at ProductCamp RTP on May 22nd. It was a fantastic success. I learned a tremendous amount about my own public speaking skills as well as learning how to teach and/or explain an idea to a group . . . → Read More: Mixing It Up
By Carlee Mallard, on May 18th, 2010% I found out today that I will be giving a 1-hour presentation at a conference (technically they call it an “un-conference”) on Saturday. I don’t think I’ve ever given a presentation in front of so many people at once before. And I have about, oh… 3 days and a few hours to prepare.
You’d think I’d be really nervous and freaking out, right? For some reason I’m not at all. Ok, maybe a little freaking out about how little time I have to prepare because I’m a perfectionist, but mostly I’m thinking, “No biggie. I got this.”
How is . . . → Read More: First Speaking Engagements. Scary, Right?
By Carlee Mallard, on April 20th, 2010% With all this talk about the legality of unpaid internships, I started wondering where unpaid work (not specified as an internship) would fall in this argument. Where do you draw the line between doing work for free and for a fee?
Otherwise You Have to Pay Someone Else
Perhaps we draw the line between work that benefits us as individuals directly as opposed to benefiting another person. For example, most of us clean our homes, cook our own food, plant gardens, write our own resumes, do our taxes (arguably beneficial), raise our own children, and paint our own toes; . . . → Read More: 3 Reasons To Work For Free
By Carlee Mallard, on April 14th, 2010% Today goes on record as the first Guest Post over here ever. Hopefully it’s not the last, either. This is a different type of guest post, though. Over at 20-Something Bloggers (www.20sb.net) they decided it would be cool to pair a bunch of us together to take over each others’ blogs for one day. Today is that day. So here we go!
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Well, hello there! Fancy meeting you here. My name’s Heather. I’m an artist in the process of learning to embrace my often scatter brained and temporarily unstable self, and I am totally usurping the lovely Carlee’s . . . → Read More: 20SB Blog Swap: Fizzle
By Carlee Mallard, on April 2nd, 2010% Everyone else is saying it, so I will too. Thank God For Spring Weather!!!!!
Now let’s jump right into reviewing my goals for March: Finish perfecting the killer resume. Honest to god, I have a rough-draft, but wow some things just take a lot more time than you imagined. I’m carrying this one over to April . Finish the new blog redesign. You might not notice a huge difference from last month, but there was a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff going on. The only part I’m still trying to work out is the Photography page. Hrmmm. There seems to . . . → Read More: April Monthly Goal Meetup
By Carlee Mallard, on March 22nd, 2010% It’s so easy to complain to your family and close friends. Often its too easy to complain. We know that no matter what we say or how annoying we are, they will still be there for us. When we whine about work or our relationships our friends are usually there to be a sounding board, listen and agree with us about how much life sucks.
Too much of a good thing can be bad though. Our automatic thoughts become: complain, whine, negativity – hoping that our friends will make us feel better.
This is where Twitter comes into play. . . . → Read More: Twitter Made Me More Positive
By Carlee Mallard, on March 10th, 2010% This is a continuation of the TEDxRTP Part 1 post. Part 1 ended on food and that’s when we all took a 1 hour conversation and lunch break. After lunch we kicked off Part 2 of the event with a comedy skit by some DSI Comedy kids. And we did the wave. A few times. It all took off from there:
DSI Comedy. Skit. They’re right (Zach Ward & Jeff Brenman that is), we are improvising every minute of every day of our lives. A member from the crowd actually stood up a few hours later and said “I’m . . . → Read More: Selected Thoughts on TEDxRTP [Part 2]
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