I’ve been in several situations recently where I knew someone was going to lie to me. But, figuring that it’d be best to give them the benefit of the doubt, I gave them an opportunity to be honest; I asked straight up for the answer, and they lied anyways. Sometimes I’ve decided to press the »
There have been a lot of things I’ve been called over the years, and an equal if not greater amount of things I’ve never been called; complacent falls into the latter. I have always been outspoken and passionate about things, so perhaps it is a bit odd that I have been so quiet and, dare »
I do, on occasion, get asked by people why I don’t keep up my blog more (aside, of course, from the nagging voices in my head pressuring me about it). Well, like 98% of the questions I ever get asked, I have a simple answer and a more complex one. Typically, however, both tend to »
Expectations are always a recurring theme for me because they are so fundamentally simple, yet frequently made so unnecessarily complicated. The most simplistic definition of any kind of relationship management (professional, personal, etc.) relies on the foundation of communication, of knowing (and expressing) expectations. Without a foundation, you have nothing to stand on or build »
One thing I have always championed is the need for communicating expectations with everyone, whether it be personal or professional. Recently I’ve found that the way people manage to be passive aggressive with this is to broadly and vaguely define terms so that it becomes a guessing game as to what is expected. If you »
I now have this blog set up on my iPhone, so in theory I will actually be posting to it finally… »