Links I Love: July 23, 2017
Want to stay in bed longer? Here’s what I’ve been loving, laughing at, and getting intrigued by all week long. Now cozy up with your laptop/tablet and enjoy :) CAREER Single women downplay career goals and salary expectations. (Chicago Booth Review) Related: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Women Who Don't Have Kids. (Refinery29) Siri and Cortana Sound Like Ladies Because of Sexism. (Wired) Three psychological strategies women can use to combat manterruptions at work. (Quartz) Sallie Krawcheck: Women Make These 3 Mistakes In Salary Negotiations. (Fortune Magazine) How to Evaluate, Accept, Reject, or Negotiate a Job Offer. (Harvard Business Journal) When Helicopter Parents Hover Even at Work. (New York Times) Learning This Simple Skill Will Make You an Exceptional Leader, According to Science. (Medium) How to Handle Underperformers on a Team You Inherit. (Harvard Business Journal) Nine Skills Worth Learning for Any Career – and How to Learn Them. (The Simple Dollar) You Just Had a Difficult Conversation at Work. Here’s What to Do Next. (Harvard Business Journal) PRODUCTIVITY/SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY "Sunday Scaries" Are Real. (Furthermore from … [Continue reading]
Sponsored: Tai Pei Single Serve Asian Entrees
This post was sponsored by Tai Pei and all opinions expressed in my post are my own. This morning, I attended one of my absolute favorite Colorado events: Fitness on the Rocks. It's kind of a combo of fitness expo and tons of workout classes, all held in and around the beautiful Red Rocks Amphitheater. This was my second year attending, and I had so much fun - but now I'm pretty spent! So more on that to come Monday :) I got home from the event around noon, and even though I had eaten lots of samples of bars and gummies and Honey Stinger waffles, I still wanted lunch - and I didn't want to put too much effort in. I was craving pad thai, and while that would normally mean lots of veggie chopping and messing with spices and sauces, today I took a shortcut by grabbing one of the all-new Tai Pei single serve meals out of my freezer. I usually freeze my own leftovers to grab when I'm in a hurry, and so don't buy a lot of prepackaged frozen meals anymore. However, the Tai Pei single serve entrees may have changed my mind on that. Tai Pei entrees are made with quality ingredients - when I read through the nutrition label, there weren't any ingredients I didn't like and didn't … [Continue reading]
C’était Mon Anniversaire
Last week was my birthday, and things didn't quite turn out the way I expected. With my birthday falling on a Monday this year, it was slated to be a long day of travel for me. I usually leave home around 6am MT and don't get to Florida until about 6pm ET (thank you, time change and layovers)... and that's if my flight is on time, which it often isn't. I'm not so much of a birthday person to where I would take off work on my birthday, but the idea of spending the day frustrated by delayed flights and then alone in a Courtyard Marriott just didn't appeal. So, I devised a plan to fly to New York on Monday morning instead. I arranged a few afternoon meetings there, and planned to stay in town that night to celebrate with old friends, and then take a 6am nonstop flight to get me to work on Tuesday morning. Unfortunately, you know what they say about the best laid plans! Rather than celebrating on Monday night, I had a quiet (but lovely) dinner with a close friend, and then stayed in town on Tuesday to attend a wake. Not quite the birthday I had expected, though I was infinitely grateful that my previous plans allowed me to be in town without having to make too many last-minute … [Continue reading]
Orangetheory Peak Performance Week: 24 Minute Run for Distance
This week is Peak Performance Week (PPW) at Orangetheory Fitness. Basically, twice a year, Orangetheory does a specific series of benchmark workouts for a week. The idea is that every six months you can do the same workouts you did six months ago in order to see how much you've improved. I've only been doing Orangetheory regularly since February, but I was still really excited to put my training to the test and see how well I could perform. Today's challenge was "endurance" focused. (Or at least, endurance as far as Orangetheory goes, since their style is intended to be high intensity interval training.) And it was pretty straightforward: 24 minutes on the clock, see how far you can run on the treadmill. Simple... but not easy. People over on the Orangetheory Reddit have been talking up PPW for a while, and strategizing about how to do your best. This is especially important for the 24 minute run for distance, as it's a pretty long stretch and there's no coaching whatsoever - just you and your treadmill. I wasn't sure how I was going to approach it, until Meerkate came up with a strategy that I thought was pretty good: "Here's what I do for any endurance run for distance … [Continue reading]
