by Andrea James | May 8, 2017 | Inspiration, Life & technology tips
When coaching clients bring up time management and we drill down into where time gets lost or wasted, inevitably, we come to interruptions. The modern worker is continuously interrupted every few minutes. There are lots of productivity tools to help you manage your...
by Andrea James | Feb 14, 2017 | Inspiration, Life & technology tips, Wall Street logic
Thoughtfulness on a deadline is not a strength I bring to any relationship. In fact, the birthday gift I offer my closest friends is absolving them from having to reciprocate any gifts to me on my birthday. For some people, gift-giving and anniversary-remembering is a...
by Andrea James | Jan 30, 2017 | Inspiration, Politics
I recommend owning a copy of “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius. It’s the personal journal of the Roman emperor who was born in AD 121 and died in AD 180. Aurelius likely never intended for his personal meditations to be read by the rest of humanity but...
by Andrea James | Jan 6, 2017 | Curiosity, Inspiration, That's Life, Wall Street logic
Starting in September, I started assisting Tesla with investor communications and therefore have been not blogging as much. For one, my days are full. (I am also still doing executive coaching.) For two, it seems fitting to write less. But I did want to share some...
by Andrea James | Sep 7, 2016 | Cosmic memo, Inspiration
In 1990, as NASA’s Voyager 1 was leaving our solar system, the late astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that the engineers have the probe turn around and take a picture of Earth. Here is the photo of Earth that Voyager took on February 14, 1990: This was the best...
by Andrea James | Aug 25, 2016 | Inspiration, Life & technology tips
In your mind or in your spoken word . . . . . What if the next time you found yourself saying, “I can’t afford _X_,” you stopped and said instead, “I choose not to afford _X_, because I value _Y_ more … ?” . . . What if the next...
