Bisous

It’s been a really productive Saturday. I awoke with the intention to go to yoga (a much-needed early afternoon class) and after my post-yogi vegetarian meal at Fresh, I headed to Chapters – always a stop during relaxing (albeit rare) days.

God must really love me, since I always seem to pick up books entirely relevant to my present, as if I’m being given the privilege to learn about the world’s most unfortunate reality: what we thought was true yesterday has no bearing on what is true today.

Inspire Your Career by Patricia Barbato is a book catered toward new graduates and young professionals. She writes as your mentor, your boss, your confidant and an inspiring friend. She gives you a snapshot of the way things could be in five or ten years and urges young professionals to be respectful and more importantly, patient (completely lacking in a personality type like mine) with the managers and organizations they work for.

I’m telling you, the universe always figures out a way to keep my ego in-check.

“Excellence is not a one-hit wonder. Excellence needs to be a habit, which takes time to demonstrate. It may take the tenth or twentieth good assignment before your boss starts to form an opinion of your performance”
-Patricia Barbato

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I spent all of yesterday evening after work, ass-in-chair at Chapter’s reading Kelly Cutrone’s book “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside”. With my best interest at heart, colleagues, friends and loved ones have seen me hop from job to job in the span of two years while they volunteered advice: “You should stay somewhere for a while, because it’ll look bad on your resume… The last thing anyone wants to be is a corporate nomad”. While I listen to their best intentions, I can’t help but shake the feeling (a feeling that’s persisted since April 2009 when I left school) that my outer world has is not a reflection of my inner capabilities.

I am 24 and have begun to reach the point of no return, a place unparalyzed by fear; fear of not being adequate, fear of not making enough money, fear of not being likeable. With a lot of spirit, courage and gusto, “I will survive” has become the motto of my days. If by fate I lose my job tomorrow – I can move home. If by fate my boyfriend breaks up with me – I will cry my eyes out, get some ice cream and eventually, be happy again. If by fate all my current friends choose to abandon me – I will find friends who will stand by my side. And if I do not follow my heart and my instincts – I’d be just the same, but dead.

“This isn’t a book about how to be a smart businesswoman, because I’m not a smart businesswoman. Frankly, I’m not even that smart. What I am is fearless and intuitive. I’m attuned to the sound of my inner voice, and I’ve been following it blindly for most of my life, without any career goals.”
-Kelly Cutrone, People’s Revolution