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Episode 48: How to Tell Your Boss You Are Quitting Your Job

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Quitting My Job over Coffee

Welcome back to Episode #48 of The Daily Interaction podcast. Today’s topic is on How to Tell Your Boss You Are Quitting. How to have that conversation in such a way that you continue the relationship with your boss and company, even if you can’t stand your job! This is a dialogue that you want to get right when you are leaving your job and moving on to another opportunity and I tell you step-by-step, word for word, how to have this talk. I also teach you how to have this chat without using the words “quit” “resign” even once! [Read more…] about Episode 48: How to Tell Your Boss You Are Quitting Your Job

72 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job

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Before you get all bent out of shape from the headline, let me point out that I do not deny the validity of reasons to getting a job. Heavens no, so relax. There are good reasons to working for an establishment and earning a paycheck. I have had plenty of jobs and at least one really cushy job and one day, I may write about The Worst and Best Jobs I Ever Had, and we can swap fun stories over comments and coffee.

But that’s not the agenda for today. [Read more…] about 72 Reasons You Should Never Get A Job

Episode 47: How to Network at Events

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Welcome back to Episode #47 of The Daily Interaction podcast. This episode brings you the best of my networking tips as we explore How to Network at Events. I want to share with you fun networking tips, and bring the FUN back in it even as we do it with the utmost professionalism. I share practical tips that are going to make your next networking event the MOST fun event on your social calendar, so get ready! [Read more…] about Episode 47: How to Network at Events

How to Put Your Intuition into Practice

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On Making Decisions with Intuition

I have made the best decisions of my life fully embracing my intuition … and the worst ones when I ignored that little tiny voice inside.

Intuition is a gift that each of us possess, and like all gifts – all abilities, all talents – some go to waste and others rise to great heights and sweet achievements. The choice is yours, and that is good news because the power lies within you. [Read more…] about How to Put Your Intuition into Practice

The Real Truth on the Craft: “On Writing” by Stephen King

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“On Writing” was my first read on Stephen King. I put three other books aside to blaze through it in a week. It was that good.

In a way, it’s similar to my first read by the fabulous Michael Crichton. I read “Travels”, Crichton’s brilliant memoirs, first then went on to reading several of his books and falling in love with his writing and himself as an author and personality.

And I think that’s important. If you want to learn from them, then you must at least like the people whose work inspire you, and Stephen King was easy to like. In fact, he was easy to freaking adore when it came to [Read more…] about The Real Truth on the Craft: “On Writing” by Stephen King