Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

When it comes to finding a mentor, the most effective mentors are 3-5 years ahead of you in the workplace. I was wondering if there were any ways you knew of online to find a mentor. And I benefited both professionally and personally when someone in that position mentored me many years ago. Great post!

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I don’t see a crowd of people holding papers like mine. I say thank you, and then I see there is an LCD above each window in the whole place that shows the number and letter sequence that is almost like mine but not really mine. I'll try to add mine here. It seems mine just work out that way. Posted by Mark W.

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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 After a year there, one of the senior partners approached me and asked if he could be my mentor. I asked why.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Not that you asked for advice, but mine is to focus not on getting him to separate from X, which is his problem, but on how you deal with having a husband who isn't separated from X (the old saw: you can't change someone else, only yourself). But your problem is not that he has a separation issue with X.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

Mine are always not dry enough, not warm enough, or not dirty enough for going into the chicken house. I guess there’s no real solution besides maybe trying to understand other people’s priorities. Penelope's woodwork looks just like mine. If Penelope's woodwork is like mine, it's an orange color.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

A friend of mine who recently started blogging used Twitter to ask what others' blog stats were like. I'm getting out of mine a little more each day. Even their – usually unsuccessful – search for an answer, a solution, or for healing becomes part of it." Their story is their identity.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

It may make you feel good to give someone compliments, or vindicated to tell them what they did wrong, but constructive criticism often requires pulling yourself out of the situation and engaging compassionately in finding solutions. And mine certainly deserves some. Much harder. Much better. The big note I need for myself now?

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

But every time I walk through my hall, I think about how important it is to take risks with my house – because that’s what makes it mine. I recently saw Erick Goss speak at a conference on media trends, and the best advice he gave was to find cheap ways to fail because there were no guaranteed solutions.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

Use solutions-based language in tense conversations. Posted by MS on January 8, 2010 at 11:06 am | permalink | Reply A cheap & easy solution to the lost keys problem: find a visible place to hang your keys. It's mine, and I don't judge myself about it. I need to remember to not give him so much.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

And she's stuck and not finding solutions. I won't generalize) But I find I want to say, this is mine. I am a top U.S. career expert for people over 38 years old, and I've tried to help her with a resume and some coaching years ago. She is afraid to work and earn a living. This is who I am. I get to explain AS.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

He has asked me to not talk over him, but I have a hard time telling if it is his turn to talk or mine. It’s mine. Posted by BJ Lindy on March 6, 2010 at 9:38 pm | permalink | Reply The Farmer must read all comments and could have come up with the solution: he should buy you a coat or give you one of his.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 16, 2010

Mine from yesterday had 13 items on it, I was able to cross off one and felt almost giddy when I crossed it off. As an engineer I always try to think of technology solutions to problems like this. Sometimes the simplest solution is the least obvious. To Do lists are hard; it’s true and I struggle with mine every day.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 7, 2010

I find happiness in material things, sure, but I'm happy when I'm with friends that remind me of where I'm from and what we've been through, when I'm with my girlfriend and can think about building a future with her, and when I'm alone and can organize thoughts, make plans, and find solutions. That was ages ago.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Posted by KateNonymous on December 8, 2009 at 4:35 pm | permalink | You're welcome to your experience, I only try to speak from mine. " The Farmer has said and done things to you that I would never have allowed to pass with the boyfriend of a friend of mine. If this means nothing, then delete this as not pertinent.

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Posted by Andy on October 9, 2009 at 11:57 am | permalink | Reply A friend of mine has nominated this for next year's Nobel Peace Prize. "Hope and Change" are not solutions. Change is a solution. He says that if we all look at it once a day, there will be no more wars ever. Slogans are not a plan.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

EEG neurofeedback training is the best solution because it trains the brain out of that pattern. I ask them what their favorite thing about their day was…and then I tell them mine. You can read about that adventure and how Yoga was part of the solution by searching for "Fender Bender" on my [link] blog.)

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Posted by Simon Hay on January 15, 2010 at 9:38 pm | permalink | Reply As an additional resource you may be interested to check out the Free Sound Therapy Home Programme available from Sensory Activation Solutions. you also probably can focus on many things at once, however sacrificing your ability to stay focused with each item.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

My family and many other families have been able to find a solution to this type of situation. Mine does, and I'm smack-dab in the middle of what I thought I wanted: an historic home with sidewalks and tall trees within view of the Oklahoma Capitol dome. My family incorporated the business many, many years ago. So, it can be done.

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Find a business analogy that takes the feeling of failure out of it if that's a problem (here's one: a therapist is like a mentor for your marriage). Think of it as a kind of prophylactic. But there are too many ways in which you are your worst enemy: you describe them weekly here in your blog, very entertainingly.

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Penelope Trunk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

A good friend of mine who NEVER cursed in high school but came out of the army cursing, wrote a song, "We say fuck a lot" Check it out: [link]. ' Solution? I take pride in knowing that the girls I've worked with, as well as my wife, who never used it before, now throw it around casually in often hilarious ways.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 14, 2010

I wish that I could offer a solution, but alas, I'm just a searcher like yourself. I worry that if her eyebrows could be improved, then mine definitely could be, but I can't figure out how to do it: Panic. Keep your head up, try to stay positive, and just LIVE!

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Penelope Trunk

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

But then, when I told one of my mentors that I’m not good at sales, he said, “Of course you’re good at sales. I have seen many organizations with highly successful sales organizations based on team collaboration (internally among the staff) and consultative solution discovery (externally with customers). He’s right. Posted by Jim C.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 4, 2009

I hope that the rule of past performance predicting future performance will skew more toward his former exits than mine. But there's no magic solution. Only found your blog this week, and it's a gold mine of real advise, inspiration, and common sense. He says it has happened at every startup he’s ever had.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

If you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. As you say, "if you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem", and I see the problem as people who get too caught up in concealing their desires behind some elaborate facade they think would be more pleasing. The guy is hilarious!

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 23, 2010

Posted by JenG on April 23, 2010 at 7:18 pm | permalink | Reply The thing I've learned, is that the social media platforms aren't mine. Although I still have every letter my best friend wrote to me in Jr and Sr High School, she threw mine away years ago.all of the things I poured my sorrows and joys and hopes into.poof, gone.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

Posted by Anthony on January 18, 2010 at 10:41 am | permalink | @Anthony: You clearly missed that Cathy and Quatrefoil are both Australian…as well as missing the point that extreme nationalism was one CAUSE of WWII and not the solution. The author posted this to the public to read and form an opinion on, I formed mine.

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