We talk a lot about being good, as in being kind. Trust us, we’re still beating that drum. Hard.
But there’s another kind of good you can be, and in today’s job market, whether you’re employed, unemployed or somewhere in between, we think Steve Martin offers the best career advice around:
We ninjas like to think, generally, we are quite grateful. But every now and then we find ourselves wishing for a little something extra. Nothing important or life-changing, but a cool little indulgent something.
The other day, this popped up in our news feed to put it all in perspective:
Important reminder. We may just print this up and hang copies around #lovelansing.
We have written about the amazing Rose Cooper before. We loved how the community came together around her to replace a tire on her beloved motorcycle to get her back on the road, singing loudly and happily.
Earlier this week, a ninja friend alerted us a Facebook post by Rose that made our blood boil: Continue reading
So do you ever feel like you’re trying to do 30 important things and doing none of them well? The whole “robbing Peter to pay Paul” thing really applies to your accomplishments too. For me, I see something wonderful that I want to help out with, and then 10 other wonderful things/people that need help arise, and then an emergency situation that needs help pops up out of left field, and so on. So I multitask the heck out of the situation (still crazily thinking that I can do it all) and I’m left with a big old pile of letting people down because no one can successfully accomplish all that I have misguidedly added to my plate, and actually do it well.
Enter reality check. Continue reading
Do you blog? How positive are your posts? We’re not saying everyone needs to be all “shiny happy people” every moment, but words do matter. Attitude matters.
We checked out Wordle this week and fed our ninja blog into it to see what words popped up the most frequently. Here’s what we saw:
On the heels of some closed-minded, hateful people darkening the doorstep of #lovelansing earlier this week, we feel especially strongly about this thought from Maya Angelou:
We’ve been feeling, shall we say, a little too connected to things lately. So when we stumbled across this (online, of course!), we thought we’d take the advice … and share it with you:
