by Megan Moore | May 28, 2019 | Life
Offering words of comfort can be a natural response. We, humans, tend to be empathetic and have a hard time standing idle when someone is breaking down. But knowing the right thing to say is not something we are taught in school. We want to offer support, but we have...
by Dustin Perini | May 25, 2019 | Career
Someone once said, “If you chose a job you love, you will never work a day in your life.” Unfortunately, many of us haven’t found that job yet and aren’t exactly sure how to. I know I’ve had many ideas of what I thought I wanted to be, but I think I just...
by Megan Moore | May 23, 2019 | Life
I exchanged friendship bracelets with my girlfriends in elementary school, in middle school my BFF wore the other half of my gold plated heart charm, and in high school, we got matching tattoos. Now, at nearly thirty, I am lucky if I see her once a year. Some say that...
by DJ Jeffries | May 9, 2019 | Career
Over the course of a lifetime, the average person will spend 13 years and 2 months at work. That’s more time than socializing with other people (1 year, 3 days), more time than eating (4.5 years), and more time than Netflix (about 8 years). For all this time spent,...
by DJ Jeffries | May 5, 2019 | Life
Although our brain allows us a free replay button, there is no pause button and no fast-forward. Still, there is excitement in the both the continuity and the uncertainty. Sometimes when I watch particularly good shows or movies on Netflix, I pause mid-stream at...
by DJ Jeffries | Apr 16, 2019 | Life
I was six years old when I learned to forget important people. It started with Michael, who exists now only as a memory that I struggle now to hold on to. Michael was my best friend for my first two years of school. I remember vaguely learning to read alongside him,...
by DJ Jeffries | Apr 1, 2019 | Career
It seems almost counter-productive to say that if you want to expand your power in any given situation, you need to give it away. But this doesn’t change that it is true. The reason this works is pretty simple once you get into the details. In order to gain power, you...
by DJ Jeffries | Mar 30, 2019 | Career
I believe that it was the Chinese philosopher Confucius who said “if you have a career that you love, then in fact you will never have to work a single day in your whole life!” But on the flip side, if you can’t do what you love, you should at least be doing...
by DJ Jeffries | Mar 27, 2019 | Poetry
Every day we walk around carrying our hopes and fears for tomorrow, our regrets and celebrations of yesterday, and a strange indifference to the present. We are more like passive observers than active participants Because by the time we fully understand what the...
by DJ Jeffries | Mar 26, 2019 | Career
8 Surprisingly Effective Ways to Stop Procrastinating In my dreams, I like to think of myself like Nike. I just do it. But only in my dreams. In reality, I often struggle with procrastination which I gleefully write off by touting my ability to get it done just in...
The Best Days Lie Ahead
