// Shortly before signing with an NBA team over four months ago, Jeremy Lin shared in a video that his career goal was to play professional basketball, be it in the NBA or in a professional basketball league overseas. He knew in his mind and heart that he had the ability and talent, the...
// A new academic year starts up tomorrow at my college, and I can’t wait! I actually thought about why I’m so looking forward to this Fall quarter, and I came up with several reasons. Reason #1: Teaching a Subject I’m Passionate About I’m excited about getting the opportunity to again teach career planning...
// I previously shared how I was on the agenda for a division meeting at my work to provide an overview of the career planning courses that I teach and to introduce the topic of personal branding as it relates to career planning and development. I know that I could have delivered the presentation...
// I was in a funk recently that I finally managed to get out of. During that unfortunate period which lasted about a month, the “down” moments seemed to outnumber the “up” moments both at work and with life outside of work. Coincidentally, while showing a PowerPoint presentation in class this week, the contents...
// I’m scheduled to deliver a presentation for my college counseling colleagues at work tomorrow, and I cannot wait. I’ll be discussing the career exploration classes that I get to teach every quarter. Since many of my colleagues refer students to these classes, I wanted to share with them in a little more detail...
// Even on my days off from work (for instance, today was a previously scheduled day off), I can’t help but check my work e-mail from home. I found out earlier today that I’m on the agenda for a division meeting next week. I had let my boss know last week that I was...
// For quite a while now, I’ve maintained a positive outlook. Looking back, it’s likely that I was too positive at times because I’ve had a long standing habit of doing practically anything to avoid negative situations. And when such moments did occur, I would try to quickly forget about them. As one can...
// A new academic quarter starts up next week and I plan to introduce a personal branding unit during week 3 or week 4 of my two career exploration classes. I’ve learned so much about personal branding in recent months, and I’m very eager to incorporate its core principles and strategies into a lesson...
// In honor of Valentine’s Day today, we present a special Valentine’s Day 2010 post. Instead of posting about why we love our significant others (because that kind of a list would be simply too long, right?), we’ll post 5 things that we love about our jobs. Andrea’s List (what I love about my...
