Life Lessons Archives - Page 3 of 4 - Grace Conyers
2014
Don’t wish for it, work for it.
Over the last few months I’ve begun to embrace this phrase. It started off as a way to remind myself to run an extra block (or at least limp through it), and then keep going. I figured I wasn’t going to get any healthier if I was lazy. So, I pushed myself to do my […]
2014
Monthly check in
Part of the reason this blog was created was to give Insanitekians and the public more insight to myself. I got away from that in some fashion because I wanted to give people more useful information. However, when our PR department discovered what I was up to, they pointed it out and begged me to […]
2014
How to transition to the alt-path of your dreams
Two and a half years ago I moved to Indianapolis with a very different thought process. I left Purdue near the end of my master’s degree with the intent to finish up remotely while working at your every day, average company doing something I love and working on Insanitek idly in my spare time. It […]
2014
Fear of Walking Alternative Paths
Life is not about stability, it’s about chance. It’s about love, learning, mistakes, falling then picking ourselves back up. It’s about laughing at those mistakes when we’re older. We can rationalise this in our off time, but when it comes to our career choices we have a tendency to think traditional choices for stability’s sake. […]
2014
The past is the past: Stop holding yourself back
All too often I’m asked what inspires, motivates, and drives me forward. After all, there are mornings when I, if I let it, I could be paralysed by fear of failure, of ending up homeless again. Yet I drag my near lifeless carcass out of bed and move on about the day. Sometimes I work […]
2014
How to produce your own work-life “balance”
The other day “M”, a client of mine asked, “How do you work so much and retain a work-life balance?” Well, first of all you should know that I don’t believe in the work-life balance myth. I’m a workaholic, and I’m quite comfortable with my insane work ethic. With this work ethic I’m making my […]
2014
Today I cried. Today I was given a real chance.
For many years my life has been an ongoing struggle to make something of myself and make my dreams come true. I’m stubborn, determined, often penniless, and resilient. I often thought this is the way it was going to be due to the fact that the world runs on money, which just happened to be […]
2014
From Science with Love
I love science. I love science so much that I seek every opportunity I can to share the knowledge that science can bring, as well as how it can be used. Most notably, every week I tutor kids in math and science. Kids will be kids, and they want their homework done so they can […]
2014
Work, life, balance, and a little sanity
As many of you know from reading my blog, I have several things balanced on my plate. I… work at a garden shop to fill my bank account (and that of Insanitek’s) ~32hrs/wk tutor on my days off from the garden shop ~8hrs/wk work on Insanitek every chance I get spend time with my fiancé […]
2014
What the Gladiators of Calico have taught me about business
The Gladiators of Calcio Storico are men with a deep story of redemption, love, and fear. They are astoundingly human on and off the field. It’s easy to see the brutality in this sport, but when one looks beyond it to what drives these men to play Calico they see every range of the human […]
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