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Changing Things Up
Life is a Series of Choices The last job I had before graduating from college was at the fourth largest YMCA in the country. After I graduated, I went to work full time at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, a government-funded research lab. It's where I started working on web technologies in 1994. Not even a year...
Mini Habits & Repetition
The first time my wife walked into my office crying, I knew two things. First, I knew something bad had happened (like she'd made some mistake she felt awful about). Second, I knew that adding my own emotions wouldn't help anything. So I told myself, repeating over and over in my head, \"stay calm.\" That's...
365 Days of Consistency
When I was a kid I was told that I had to get good grades in high school to get into a good college. And then I would have to do well in college to get a good first job. And so on. I'm sure part of that was true. But in a world where...
Planning Your Next Year Right
Are You Planning Your Next Year? We're just a couple of days from the new year. And if you're like me, you can't wait for a new year to start so we can get past what's been two very long years. But if you're planning your next year right now, I want you to press...
When Is It Time to Quit or Move On?
First, I'm Not Quitting Sometimes when you blog about something, on your personal blog, people infer that it's an indirect (or really direct) reflection of what's going on in life. That may be the case for posts like yesterday's where I was working out a problem and solved it. But today's post isn't that. I'm...
Wrapping Up The Year? It's Time for Rest.
Most of us, at the end of the year, take some time for rest. Time to slow down, to think about and plan for the next year. But here's what I know - one or even two weeks off to break from your day job won't restore you if you're completely exhausted.
Melissa Lema is Amazing
Hey, it's my blog, right? So if I want to tell you how amazing my wife is, I get to do that. And you can skip today's post, but I suggest you don't because there's a lesson in here for you (beyond the fact that Melissa Lema is amazing). Because deep down inside, I think...
Perseverance Creates Luck
Steve Martin, in his Masterclass course on comedy says, \"When it's your turn to be picked, you have to be within pointing distance.\" If we're friends or you've read my posts, you've likely heard me say, \"All things being equal, people like to buy from their friends. So first, make all things equal, and then...
Thinking About Learning All Wrong
In the Lema house, we have a high value for learning and education My wife was a teacher in school districts for almost two decades and then spent time home schooling our two kids until they got to high school. She has a masters degree in education. And while my masters is in leadership and...
Are You Willing To Suck?
I Turned 51 Today Today I begin my 52 year around the sun. That's just another way of saying I'm getting older and today was my birthday. I spent the day in Disney's California Adventure with my wife and two kids. Then at night, I had a casual dinner with one of my best friends...
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