Sponsored: How DD Perks Fueled Me Up for Puerto Rico
I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf of Influence Central for Dunkin' Brands. I received a promotional item to thank me for my participation. This post is coming to you from sunny Puerto Rico! I had a work trip here today and tomorrow of this week, so I chose to take a seemingly random vacation day Wednesday so that I could fly out a day early and enjoy some beach time before I head for meetings in Old San Juan. It's been a blast so far! On Tuesday night, after a fantastic night out in Arvada with a few of my best girlfriends, I headed to the airport and hopped on a red eye. Though I don't know if you technically call it a "red eye" when it's a mid-con instead of a transcon, and the flight is only 4 hours - that is not enough sleep for me! I arrived at Miami Airport pretty bleary-eyed and desperately seeking coffee. I used to have a membership to the Admiral's Clubs, which meant I could get free coffee (and other snacks) at the airport lounges on layovers, but they recently changed the program so my AmEx doesn't grant that privilege anymore. However, I recently learned that Tuesday was the first anniversary of Dunkin' Donuts' DD Perks Rewards program - … [Continue reading]
Could’ve Would’ve Should’ve? Nope, You Did What You Did
One thing that has always frustrated me is when people make excuses for races. (Or really, when people make excuses for anything.) Okay, so you didn’t run as fast as you wanted because it was hot or because it was hilly – but neither did anyone else who was running that day. You got a stomachache and ended up having to make an unplanned bathroom stop halfway through? Fine – it happens to the most seasoned professional. But that doesn’t mean you get to subtract two minutes from your time. It is what it is, and you can’t retroactively adjust your finish time just because it “wasn’t your day.” Professional athletes train for years for the Olympics, and if it’s “not their day” on the day of the games, they don’t get a gold medal for what they could have done. There are plenty of athletes who are widely considered the best, but by some stroke of bad luck, they don’t have a great performance on game day and so they don’t win – and that’s just part of the game. I thought that we all accepted that for what it is, and that all runners understood that you couldn’t just retroactively adjust a race time – the official results are the official results. But what happens if the official … [Continue reading]
An Unscheduled Weekend of Mishaps
This was kind of a weekend of mishaps - in large part due to some really unstructured time management on my part. On Friday night, I was supposed to meet up with a friend for dinner. Unfortunately, on Thursday night, I had gotten less than two hours of sleep – partly the result of me refusing to give up on a social activity that night even though I had work to do, and partly because… there was just so much work to do! All week I hadn’t been sleeping enough, so Friday morning I regretfully texted my friend to cancel and let him know that I was going to be going to bed pretty much the second that I wrapped up work for the day. So we rescheduled for Sunday brunch, and I spent Friday night getting a bunch of work done but largely feeling like I had wasted the night. Strike one. Saturday morning, I woke up feeling at least somewhat refreshed (although I hadn’t gotten to bed as early as I would have liked on Friday night), and I grabbed my gear and headed to the ski slopes. I bought two unlimited ski passes this year – one gets me access to Breckenridge, Keystone, Arapahoe Basin, Vail, Beaver Creek, and the other is for Eldora, a small local mountain that’s just 40 minutes from … [Continue reading]
Links I Love: January 25, 2015
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 Customer experience as competitive advantage. (Pricewaterhouse Coopers) All You Need To Know About Customer Journey Mapping. (Smashing Magazine) The key to becoming more motivated at work: make more office friends. (A Life of Productivity) How Not to Be ‘Manterrupted’ in Meetings. (Time) PRODUCTIVITY/SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Didn’t Sleep Last Night? Here’s How to Survive the Workday. (99U) 7 Surprising Things That Can Help You Stop Worrying. (Fast Company) 5 Tips for Becoming a Better Listener. (Medium) 4 Rules for Getting Better Client Feedback. (99U) 9 Habits that Lead to Bad Decision-Making. (Levo League) Give a Better Reply Than “I’m Busy”. (99U) One of my all-time favorite reads: How to Find the Time to Accomplish Anything. (Feld Thoughts) 17 Tips for Writing an Excellent Email Subject Line. (Levo League) How Successful People Handle Toxic People. (Inc) How to Disagree (Without Being a Jerk). (99u) HEALTH/FITNESS For Running's Sake, Kind Of. (The Boring … [Continue reading]
