Whether you have an iPad, Nook, Kindle or no eBook reader at all, I’m sure you can agree with me: Carrying multiple books, especially heavy textbooks, in a backpack can be, well, a pain in the back. Even with carrying one book, unless it’s a small paperback, can be cumbersome to lug around with everything else you may need to keep with you.

I can understand that many of us love the tactile feeling of a book or the feeling of a pen in our hand while we brainstorm/note-take on paper. I, too, love that feeling, but to have an eReader of some sorts (iPad, Nook, Kindle, or another device) just makes more sense.

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This is for all of the zealous graphic/web designers out there: an infographic to help you figure out that tough decision about the future of your career.
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Dear McDonald’s,

Thank you for joining the arena of convenient latte, mocha and blended coffee drinks. When the drinks are made right, they are delicious and perfectly priced for today’s wallet.

When you entered this arena, I as a life-long customer noticed that you gave your milkshakes some new clothing, too. Continue reading this post…

Continuing with the in-house sharing interesting articles, eBooks, books, and what-not my boss drops off a book at my desk and encourages me to read it. The book entitled Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk just so happened to be the same book I saw in the latest round of webinars at Inbound Marketing University.

I ended up skipping that webinar because I was not up for an hour long open Q&A about how to Crush It!. But in the five minutes I did see of that webinar, my take away was that some people digest things in different ways: some through videos, some through written text. I am definitely one who was going to snatch up the book to digest Gary’s message rather than look at a handful of random photographs with audio streaming over them. Yea, I could have continued to do other things while I listened, but it was my lunch. And coincidentally, I didn’t have to go buy the book. The book found me. How cool is that?

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Something I have learned within the recent years which I would like to share with you:

It’s not necessarily how much you over achieve personally, but it’s also how much you use those skills to enable others to learn and grow themselves; in return growing yourself.

Since adopting that motto, I have found not only does my work load become more balanced/less stressed, but my opportunities to learn more have grown and my team members like to engage in projects with me (not fend for themselves because I didn’t include them). That motto also has challenged me greatly — something my over achiever inner-self is thriving upon.