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Need help but don't know where to start? Here are 5 ways you can ask for what you need. For today’s Thought Exercise, we’re going to discuss five ways to ask to ask for help. These ideas are from Pamela Slim’s book, Body of Work: Finding the Thread That Ties Your Story Together. Slim reminds us with this exercise that, “Asking for help, and giving help on a consistent basis, is the best thing you can do for your body of work. It does’t have to be a lonely grind; it can be a rich exchange of ideas, information, and resources.”  Without further ado, here are five ways Pamela Slim says you can ask for help: 1. Describe what you need help with in clear language 2. Send a Tweet (make sure your question is clear, brief, and includes ‘thanks!’) 3. Use LinkedIn Answers (this doesn’t exist anymore, Slim’s book was written in 2013, never the less, just try asking on LinkedIn which is literally a community of professional experts) 4. Attend free calls and webinars - Slim suggests companies, c...

Here is a selection of memorable quotes from North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Painting above: The Artist in her room in Paris by Gwen John And walk Margaret did, in spite of the weather. She was so happy out of doors, at her father's side, that she almost danced; and with the soft violence of the west wind behind her, as she crossed some heath, she seemed to be borne onwards, as lightly and easily as the fallen leaf that was wafted along by the autumn breeze. p.50-51 She [Dixon] remained with her [Mrs. Hale], and was devoted to her interests; always considering herself as the good and protecting fairy, whose duty it was to baffle the malignant giant, Mr. Hale. p.52 She knew that his very reserve had originated in a tenderness for her, which might be cowardly, but not unfeeling. p.80 And yet day by day had, of itself, and by itself, been very endurable - small, keen bright little spots of positive enjoyment having come sparkling into the very middle of sorrows. p.148 'Lo...

If nothing else, the pandemic experience has taught me that my capacity for introversion is...limitless. Above: Making a Wish for a Long Life on Chrysanthemums by Uemura Shōen (1939) Of course I missed my family and friends, and I am cautiously optimistic about our province's vaccination rates. At the same time, I greatly enjoy my own company, and the pandemic has only affirmed this. Here are some quotes that I am pinning to my Introvert Inspiration board for the summer. She [Emily Dickinson] recalled hearing the faraway sound of an ax being brought down long after a farmer had swung it. What stayed with her was not the action or the farmer. What remained was the lingering sound.  Emily wanted to be like that: heard but not seen. from These Fevered Days by Martha Ackmann  Lily was a bunch of crumpled pockets and Sylvie is a black dress, perfumed scarves, iron posture and whatever else turns a person into an atmosphere. from White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi But the mos...

Here's my first draft at a summer playlist for 2021! Hot & Heavy by Lucy Dacus Like I Used To by Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen Always by SPELLLING (NOT on this YouTube playlist, couldn't find it. You can listen and buy here ) Right by Harlequin Gold How Many Times by Esther Rose While We Wait by Dominique Fils-Aimé Meaningless by Charlotte Cardin He Said She Said by CHVRCHES Down by st. vincent Die 4 Love by Tristen Head Cheerleader by Pom Pom Squad If I Believed in Love by Foxing London Gangs by SAULT Half Silences by LOMA