International Coach Academy

JANUARY 25, 2024

Even though at the peak of our lives, with the experience and achievements we have collected through the years, it seems that we still are troubled by our perceived shortcomings or lack of accomplishments, and the opportunity to enjoy happiness and achieve life satisfaction at that stage of our lives is easily overlooked.

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Mind Mapping Utilities Accomplishment IT 208

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 21, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to manage a college education Posted to: College students January 21st, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The idea of paying for a liberal arts education is over. And, of course, it’s a tough time to graduate into the workforce.

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Education Management Management Career 112

International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

I strongly believe that everyone can unleash and actualize their potential if we know our unique strengths and have the tools to overcome their challenges. The two niches I would like to embark on as these experiences are interwoven in my life and with it comes distinctive challenges: Parenting. Oncology-related. G = Grounding. Oncology-related.

Construction 208

Construction IT Communication Milestones 208

International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Interestingly, the Japanese word for “path” is “Do,” which I encountered when I embarked on my journey in Karate, or more precisely, Karate-do. This martial art, with its deep-rooted philosophies, shares a common thread with coaching – both paths lead to personal development.

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Development Career Coaching Career Coach IT 208

International Coach Academy

AUGUST 8, 2023

Coaching as a Vehicle for Change: Organizational and Individual Perspectives Professionally trained change management professionals integrate a coach approach into their practices. This is part of one of the most recognizable and respected change models used today. This is where coaching plays a major role.

Executive Coach 208

Executive Coach Executive Coaching Performance Management 208

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The fit of your jeans is somehow an accomplishment? About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Welcome, San Francisco Chronicle Readers Posted to: Self-management December 7th, 2009 Del.icio.us I kind of already see it. I'm in jeans that don't really fit right now. Why is it like that?

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Time management is not about tasks Posted to: Management | Time management September 17th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook When I was in high school, the police took me out of my parents’ house and put me at my grandma’s house.

Management 112

Management Management Construction IT 112

Penelope Trunk

MARCH 9, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog The biggest triumph is getting out of bed Posted to: Fulfillment March 9th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook Psychology Today did an interview with me. So I wrote that. And then I felt bad. So I tried to give an example.

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IT Career Accomplishment Hospitality 112

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Being an expert takes time, not talent Posted to: Fulfillment | Goal setting | How to blog January 28th, 2010 Del.icio.us Sometimes, if I’m getting on a plane, I’ll put it with the other heavy stuff into my luggage, and then get it out later.

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Mentor Career IT Motivation 112

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 11, 2009

I am certain that no one recovers from sadness until they go back to the gym : Endorphins, routine, self-control, these are all the pieces of getting back to normal. I have said, every day for the past week, that today is the day I will go to the gym. But this is the day when my ex-husband sleeps over. So I am sitting my bedroom, I am hungry.

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IT Management Management Career 89

Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

I can’t find it because as soon as you put influence and happiness in a search string you get stuff that influences happiness but you can’t search influence influence happiness. Anyway, trust me that if you have influence, you feel happier. Which maybe means that the smartest thing you can do is obsessively watch Twitter rankings.

IT 110

IT Networking Management Management 110

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 13, 2010

But what we have is actually a semantic problem rather than a leadership problem. The issue is that in the age of the Internet, what it means to be a leader is changing. And we need a new way to talk about leadership so we can talk about identifying leaders. The old view of leadership is doing it from the top. There are women who did not have kids.

Leadership 110

Leadership IT Management Management 110

Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I have written before that for me, the biggest problem at work stems from my own sensory integration dysfunction – something that typically tags along with an Asperger's diagnosis. I listened to Ryan Paugh go first. He said, “What do you have planned for the weekend?” That was a great line. I wouldn’t have thought of it.

Career 111

Career IT Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Everyone I showed the wallpaper to said the it would be too busy a pattern. But I loved it. So I bought it anyway. There are a lot of problems with my hallway now — most notably, I used Elmer's glue instead of wallpaper paste and I'm going to have to pull down the wallpaper and start over. Which, of course, is very similar to a life.

IT 112

IT Career Management Management 112

Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 23, 2010

And, look, I’m accomplishing numbers one and three from my list right here. So, here I am, telling you what I'm doing to get through this, because I think you and I have an agreement that you'll put up with me being lost and not posting very often, as long as I'm useful. Find beauty in the process of being lost. He defeats me.

Career 110

Career IT Management Management 110

Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

If you have on your top three things you want in life: go to the gym, stay in touch with friends, read a book a week, then sightseeing is not on the list. You don’t need to do it when you travel. You need to stick to your priorities. If my company will save more than $300, I’ll travel on an airline that I am not platinum on.

Management 111

Management Management Food IT 111

Penelope Trunk

JULY 29, 2010

Ryan Paugh , who was basically my intern when I met him , and now he's almost my boss and definitely my social-skills mentor , tells me that I am popular because I'm interesting but that I suck at self-promotion. (He He uses, as an example, the day I promoted an event on my blog a few hours after it actually happened.)

Career 111

Career Networking Mentor IT 111

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I know your first inclination is to say that I’m an idiot for waiting until the end of November. But I really, really cannot deal with bureaucracy. To give you a sense of how much I can’t deal with it, I almost did not graduate college because I had too many library fines. I graduated only because my grandma made some calls. This is true.

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IT Mining Food Government 112

Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

But the only alone time I have in my day is the time I’m not with the kids, and if I spend my alone time with other people, then I don’t have alone time and I start to panic, and I do things like tell the guy in the cube next to me that he can’t talk to me. Get a spot where you can concentrate. I call him to tell him I’m coming to his house early.

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IT Career Management Management 97

Penelope Trunk

JULY 9, 2010

The New York Times called the ESPN segment an ego-a-thon , which it may well be. But there's more to our fascination with the decision than just our natural tendency to be drawn to celebrities. James encapsulates the issues each of us faces when we decide if we should relocate. It's friends and family vs. opportunity. James is not content.

Career 112

Career IT Management Management 112

Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Generation Y in Politics: Krystal Ball's candidacy Posted to: Diversity | Women October 12th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I have been waking up at 4am to work. And I like it. And then I got a routine. I like that.

IT 111

IT Career Accomplishment Management 111

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 8 Tips for anger management Posted to: Office Politics | Parenting | Self-management January 8th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook People at work are asking me why I am not working as many hours as I used to. This is sometimes true.

Management 112

Management Management IT Food 112

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

So time passing means that even though I get a ton of comments, I do not usually run my life based on the comments section. But in the last week I have been particularly lost, and particularly inundated by timely comments. On top of that, I know it seems like I can tell anyone anything, but I’m not actually like that. I wrote it on my blog.

IT 85

IT Career Motivation Management 85

Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 7, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog You can be happier by reading this post Posted to: Learn to take advice | Self-management January 7th, 2010 Del.icio.us And happiness begets happiness. So I have a feeling that me just writing a post about happiness, and you reading it makes us all happier.

IT 101

IT Career Food Management 101

Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2009

." The Nobel Prize Committee said something interesting about Obama's award: "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future." " And this, I think, is what good leaders do. There were other people who had offered to take the job.

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Accomplishment Leadership Career Management 99

Penelope Trunk

MARCH 16, 2010

Even if I manage to do that, I will not feel like I have accomplished something important today. And then, when it turns out that it really does mean sleep inducing I didn’t feel accomplished. And right now, I’m dying. I’m dying because I am following all the prescribed rules except one. Here are things I’m doing well: 1. But I should.

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Accomplishment IT Management Management 112

Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

What I have spent money on was always intended to help me with my career. That was so I know that I can always earn money doing something I love. I leased a BMW when it was clear that that mattered when it came to making deals in LA. I hired a stylist when I realized my clothes were holding me back in NYC. Here is why frugality helps your career: 1.

Career 111

Career IT Utilities Education 111

Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

To give you an idea of what I’m talking about, I’m going to walk you through my most recent parent-teacher conference. Which was a disaster. And while it was a meeting in a second-grade classroom, it could have been a meeting with anyone, anywhere. I can’t tell the difference between social niceties and reality. I think I'm late.

IT 111

IT Education Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

When a business is deciding whether to be for-profit or not-for-profit, they are thinking about what is the most efficient way to meet their goals. For example, the Gates Foundation was established to get the money out of the hands of one family and give it to people who can change the world with the money. Example: United Way. That’s pretty direct.

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Insurance Government Management Management 112

Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Like most problems related to Asperger’s, when people know me, I am more forthcoming about the problem. This is the only way I can get help from people. For example, one of my favorite board members takes me out for breakfast each week. At first it was to control the company’s cash flow. Now it is to control for my eccentricities. Even with a tutor.

Food 111

Food IT Management Management 111

Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Mindfulness makes you more productive Posted to: Productivity | Time management February 22nd, 2010 Del.icio.us Or maybe I am doing them both at the same time? Then I thought maybe I needed expertise: striving to be an expert would be my obsession.

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IT Career Management Management 107

Penelope Trunk

AUGUST 16, 2010

And he matches my wall: Another good thing is that he lets me do whatever I want with the house. In the background? We definitely needed a hutch in the dining room. It's exactly what fit with the decor. But I thought if I bought a hutch I'd just start buying stuff to fill it with. So instead, I drew a hutch on the wall. But you know what?

IT 110

IT Food Career Creativity 110

Penelope Trunk

MAY 30, 2010

I would fly first class, stash all the extra treats they offered, and eat them until I could charge room service to the organization I was speaking to. I am an ace at traveling without any money, but I’m sick of it. I thought it would never happen again. After all, I have a company credit card. But I think Ryan Healy canceled my card.

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Recruitment Career Management Management 103

Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

She said that people do not want to read about my fascination with suicide. It’s true. I am fascinated by suicide: Why don’t more people kill themselves? Life is very hard. And there is no sane reason to believe it will, at some point, get easier. So why do we keep going? I don’t know. This fascinates me. Here is a great book of suicide letters.

IT 111

IT Networking Career Management 111

Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Thanksgiving drama on steroids: Adding a family business to the mix Posted to: Entrepreneurship | Money | Negotiating November 25th, 2009 Del.icio.us But everyone still does Thanksgiving basically because they love their parents. Honestly, I like the sisters.

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IT Career Food Management 92

Penelope Trunk

MAY 12, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Tactic for combatting distraction Posted to: Productivity May 12th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook It's frog and toad mating season on the farm. The farmer is full of mating factoids, like toads enjoy a threesome.

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IT Career Management Management 107

Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to hit a wall at work, with grace Posted to: Career fulfillment | Knowing yourself December 22nd, 2009 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook I am lost. I have been lost before in my career. I wrote about it after the fact. I know that.

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