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The Art of Making and Breaking Habits

After traveling for work and battling the “other” flu for more than a week, I found myself in yoga at 6 a.m. last week after a month hiatus. Every move toward yoga seemed painstakingly difficult - from getting out of bed, to brushing my teeth, to driving 10 minutes to the studio, to rolling out my mat. Then the sore muscles. Oh, the sore muscles afterward. Every movement served as a reminder that my life is once again out of balance. The scale of good habits and bad habits are a glaring mental display that good habits are easily broken.

I have found that good habits are forged with accountability, determination and consistency, and bad habits infest themselves in my life and strangle the good habits out. I also often find myself hating strongly disliking those people who run 6 miles at 5 a.m. every morning before fully reading the paper [...]

Goodbye PR, Hello Marketing

A tribute. I hesitated to put this up since it’s such a horrible example of my spokesperson abilities, so please forgive the umms, uhhs and stuttering ands. Gross lack of sleep.

As many of you know, as of a week ago I was getting laid off. The company that owns my company decided to move the corporate communications function to their headquarters in Cincinnati and I decided not to join them in that move. So while I was in the throws of planning the new business I would start, all the things I would do while collecting the joke that is unemployment (without exploiting the system of course) and the new career paths I would take (hairdresser, world traveler, private investigator) I was blindsided – in a good way – with the offer to take a promotion and switch departments to become the new marketing manager for Greyhound.