The MeEO Minute
The way we work, grow, and succeed is changing. I’m here to explore what that means for you. This blog is a collection of insights, strategies, and reflections designed to help you become a MeEO and take ownership of your career and life.
I pull from books, podcasts, research, and personal experiences to uncover practical ways to stabilize, grow, and thrive in today’s evolving world. If you’re looking to create a stronger, more sustainable foundation for your career and life, you’re in the right place.
Let’s build something great—together!
Trifecta of Productivity
As we build a sustainable life, we need to be productive. Enjoying deep work, getting “chores” completed, and having time for the things that matter to us. The challenge is ensuring we feel productive and not busy. Productive is accomplishment. Busy creates anxiety...
Life Personas
Personas are used as a foundation in marketing to communicate customer details. These descriptions give the customer personality and “life”. I was wondering if this concept could be applied as we work to design our career and life. My idea was to use personas to...
Ladders and Titles Holding Us Back
The way work is based on career ladders and titles is holding us back. Here, I don’t just mean individuals, I mean companies as well. Individuals don’t have the career opportunities that their skills could achieve. Companies don’t get the most out of the team they...
Weekly Summary & PodList – 9.28.24
Welcome to the Saturday recap. Enjoy! Personal Development This week, the posts cover career progression, stress, and deep work. I think several of them are thought-provoking and I hope they get your mind spinning on your career and work in general. Find...
4 Hours a Day
According to two older articles from Inc Magazine and The Guardian, the amount of creative work hours that knowledge workers are able to handle each day is 4. Yes, four total hours of deep work. They looked at science and examples from historical thought leaders to...
The Experience Sweet Spot
Lately, I’ve been looking back on my career and trying to pinpoint a moment. That moment when I shifted my perspective from wanting to expand my years of experience to wanting to contract them. I’m calling this the “years of experience” conundrum. Early in my...
Organizational Impact of Stress
Many organizations are in a vicious cycle. Employees feel overworked and under stress. When stressed, we react using our amygdala, not our pre-frontal cortex. This means we are making decisions driven by fear and emotions, not rational thinking. When business...
Multipotentialites
After watching the video that inspired yesterday's post on Squiggly careers, another popped up that caught my attention. This talk by Emilie Wapnick featured the concept of multipotenialites. Emilie believes we are trained to think that we can only become one thing....
Find Your Squiggle
This week, I found a TED Talk with Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper. They were talking about concepts from their book – The Squiggly Career. They say the challenge in moving to squiggly careers stems from the “legacy of the ladder”. Climbing the ladder is engrained in the...
PodList & Summary
Welcome to the Saturday recap. Enjoy! Personal Development This week, the posts cover wealth beyond the financial, transitioning from success to significance, interview styles, and more. What is Wealth? The first post has us looking beyond financial wellbeing to...
Interview Personalities
I recently listened to a HBR Podcast titled "What’s Your Interview Style?”. The episode interviewed Anna Papalia about her book: Interviewology: The New Science of Interviewing She covers the four types of interviewers/interviewees that are covered in her book. There...
LinkedIn “Open to Work” Gets Mixed Reviews
Fast Company recently published an article this spring on the LinkedIn “open to work” badge. The content provides the pros and cons of using the badge on your profile. And, if you choose to use it should you use it for everyone or just recruiters? There are obvious...
Lessons on Transitions
With football season in full swing, I was reminded of an interview with Drew Brees. He was on the news back in the spring. Talking about his transition to a post-football life. I was particularly drawn to one quote: “My priorities are shifting from success to...
Identity: Think. Speak. Do.
There is a great Jane Austin quote that speaks to our identity: “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” – Jane Austin Recently, I heard someone adding the idea of joining as a dimension of “doing”. Join a group with similar interests –...
What is Wealth?
There was a quote by James Clear that got me thinking: “There are 4 types of wealth: Financial Wealth (money) Social Wealth (status) Time Wealth (freedom) Physical Wealth (health) Be wary of jobs that lure you in with 1 and 2 but rob you of 3 and 4.” - James Clear We...