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Recovering the Now: The Value of Appreciation

We live in a fast-paced world filled with an increasing number of distractions, diversions, and priorities that can so easily pull us away from being grateful – or even aware of – the many gifts that surround us every day.

Opportunity Cost

An experience today grows to be a story tomorrow and a memory in the years to come. Our time is our most valuable and finite resource. Invest it wisely!

Introducing The CoolWorks Help Center

The Help Center is a library of articles, videos, and visual aids to answer any and all questions you might have about how to use our site and to get the most out of your job search or recruiting efforts.

Metamorphosis

And it strikes me that of all the things of wonder in the natural world, there must be a reason why schools everywhere, decade after decade, choose this story as one of the first to teach our children about nature and science.

The Alchemy of Spring

This is a season change that always fills me with creative energy and excitement. When I sit still and breathe, I can feel that energy moving through my veins like the water that now starts to resurface and flow in our washes from it’s winter depths. It is most certainly...

Catching Waves

Our lives are all full of successes and failures, perfect timing, failed attempts, and missed opportunities, and sometimes I wonder if life isn’t a more complicated version of floating in the surf searching for and manifesting that next great wave. 

Live the Story You Want to Tell

In the fall of 2007, I was approaching graduation from business school and my subsequent dreaded expulsion into the post-B school world of banking, finance, consulting, or some other career field that I’d heard of but didn’t know exactly what sort of work I would be doing when I inevitably...

Top Ten List

I like quotes; I’m a huge fan. I love how the perfect phrase can completely change how you look at or feel about something. In my experience, if you’re paying attention, they tend to pop up when you need them most. Here is a list of my top ten favorite quotes...

Easing into the New Year with Awareness

Regardless of religion, spiritual path, or none of the above, we all want to be happy. And learning how to be less reactive and more kind and compassionate leads us in the happiness direction. And even better than leading us towards that sunlit path, a study done in 2008 by...

Resolve to Reinvent – December 31, 2017

As you walk into 2018, rather than lining out and piling up all the changes you expect to mark in your life over the next 12 months, consider resolving yourself to constant reinvention and perpetual beginning. Every moment can mark the start of a new cycle and represent a fresh...
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