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To Resolve, or Not to Resolve
Is it me, or have you also noticed the growing polarization surrounding the topic of New Year’s Resolutions and Goal Setting? The debate can get…
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October 2023
The Possible Impossible
There is a growing body of research that upends what we thought we knew about goal-setting—suggesting that if you are relying on old constructs such as…
Oct 25, 2023
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September 2023
For the Love of the Craft
I’m a big fan of Frank Bruni, have been ever since I read his memoir, Born Round: A Story of Family, Food and a Ferocious Appetite. (Italian-Americans…
Sep 7, 2023
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When Flow Turns to Folly
I was first introduced to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (me-high, cheek-sent-me-high) the Hungarian-American psychologist and distinguished professor…
Sep 2, 2023
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August 2023
Sisyphus and the Bird
If you’ve been following 100 Rejections for the last couple of months, you’ll know that in late March, I received a rather pivotal rejection from a…
Aug 20, 2023
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Aren't You Ready to be Dead?
Back in the early days of COVID, I was sitting at my desk with a Gen Z employee, (let’s call him Z) who was helping get the company equipped so that our…
Aug 13, 2023
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June 2023
The Torturous Nature of Writing, and the Role of Self-Doubt
There is a sequence in Krista Tippet’s expansive interview with Rick Rubin on creativity, (mentioned in my last post) in which they discuss how…
Jun 27, 2023
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It is Solved by Walking...Sitting Sometimes Works, Too
“It is solved by walking.” – St. Augustine I have an ornament with this St. Augustine quote that I keep in a kind of altar—a glass case filled with…
Jun 20, 2023
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May 2023
Crickets, and What's Next
It’s been crickets on 100 Rejections for the last month or so….and there are a couple reasons for this. The first of which is that for a good chunk of…
May 15, 2023
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April 2023
On Writing and Finding Your Voice
In the last post, I suggested that when confronted with a rejection (or any obstacle) so destabilizing that it calls everything into question, it might…
Apr 7, 2023
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March 2023
Rejections # 3 and 4
Over the course of a week, I received two rejections. The first fell under the category of standard form letter fare and while disappointing, the…
Mar 29, 2023
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Mastering the One Sentence Pitch
Part III
Mar 21, 2023
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