Monthly Archives: September 2012
Fall 2012 – NYC SQL / BIG Data Events
9/28: RedGate SQL in the City
10/23-10/25: http://strataconf.com/stratany2012?intcmp=il-strata-stny12-st12sc-widget
10/22-10/25: TDWI New York Seminar
NYC/CT/NJ – SQL / NOSQL/ BIG Data / Cloud / Sharepoint User Groups
BIG Data / Business Intelligence
MS Business Intelligence UG of NYC New Jersey Hadoop Meetup New Jersey Teradata User Group New York Business Intelligence Meetup NYC Cassandra User Group NYC Data Business Meetup NYC Hadoop Meetup NYC HBase Meetup NYC MongoDB Meetup NYC MySQL Meetup NYC Predictive Analytics MeetupCloud
NJ Windows Azure User Group NYC Windows Azure User Group New York Cloud 2.0 MeetupData Management/MetaData
NYC DAMA NYC TDWIMS SQL Server
Central NJ SQL Server User Group Fairfield/Westchester SQL Server Group Jersey Shore SQL Meetup New London, CT SQL User Group NJ SQL Server Users Group NY SQL Server User Group Philly SQL Server User GroupSharePoint
Central NJ SharePoint User Group NJ SPUDD Meetup (SharePoint Users, Designers & Developers) Princeton Area SharePoint User Group NYC SharePoint User GroupThe “OK Plateau”: Oh I am so there…
Have you ever gotten really good at something and grazed at the mountain top? While it’s OK to recognize your own accomplishments, it’s not good to linger too long at the top of one particular mountain. Some of the reasons why people graze (sounds gentler than become complacent) are related to work-family balance, medical issues, general stress or perhaps it just feels right at the time.
As a young working mother, my personal focus was on providing for my family financially, developing a career and raising our daughters so that they would be prepared for the world. Once the first two were satisfied and remained in a state of maintenance, I was freed up to assure my daughters were well supported in their teen years. At that time, I also got involved in technical communities at a local and nationally while developing organizational and leadership skills. So, while I was moving forward professionally I was doing so cautiously with the emergency brake on.
I tried numerous tactics to lift the emergency brake which includes several areas of self-study to propel myself career wise. But, it seems that even my best plans were foiled by self-sabotage and my great ability to lean towards other distractions (life happens). I took lots of time and thought deeply about my passions and the parts of my job that I enjoy. It all came down to this: I LOVE Data, Connecting Data and business’ and connecting People via Technical Communities.
I was excited that I had come to the conclusion of some plausible career paths. But, It appeared that my established strategies of writing goals, envisioning, attacking them with brute force and/or tying them to other people or commitments no longer worked. I obviously needed a new set of tools to reach my full potential. I reached out to friends and mentors for feedback and later decided that I needed a dynamic coach.
In my journey of finding a new set of tools to remove the brakes from my “OK Plateau”, I came across the following articles/videos/quotes that resonated with me. I’m sharing these resources in the hopes that I help someone else or I receive some feedback that will propel me.
Break Through Your “OK Plateau” By Studying Yourself Failing ~ Joshua Foer
How to Re-Program Your Subconscious Mind to Get What You Want ~ Marie Forleo
Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders (TedWomen Dec 2010)
To Succeed, Forget Self-Esteem
#IgniteNYC: When Failing Is Cool http://nyconvergence.com/2012/09/ignitenyc-when-failing-is-cool-ignitenyc.html#prclt-R2ymbxU4
When you become brave enough to be silent, the answers you seek will finally reveal themselves ~cherylrichardson.com