Terri, Author at Terri Trespicio

Resolutions are like Pelotons – they just sit there

I got a Peloton this December and I don’t expect you or anyone to give a crap. Few things are as boring as someone else’s fitness regimen. Next. And, if you ask me, New Year’s resolutions are about as interesting as exercise equipment: It’s great that you have it, but it just sits there until…
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Why the Babadook is relevant this Christmas

While everyone’s watching Love Actually and Home Alone, what did I watch this weekend? The Babadook. In this 2014 horror film, an evil Dr. Seuss like monster terrorizes a grieving single mother named Amelia and her son. The real horror is that Amelia’s husband died taking her to the hospital the day her son was…
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The best negotiating advice comes from my friend Ilise, the stoic

Years ago, I was on the verge of leaving a client who was paying the lion’s share of my income. The situation had become untenable, and I knew it was time to GTFO. Many of my friends and colleagues looked at this as a symbolic departure, a holy war to save the soul of my…
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Don’t react. Take notes.

You having a normal-ish holiday? Or a weird holiday. I hope no matter what shape it takes today it’s peaceful, calm, and safe. And that it allows you some time to…eat your face off. For gratitude list lovers and people who live for the opportunity to use #blessed, this is your day. But if you’re…
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You bored? (Be honest)

Have you been feeling bored? Would you know what bored even is anymore? There’s literally NOTHING about 2020 that was even remotely “boring,” but can you be afraid and hectic and also bored? Yes. I used to think of boredom as something we’d bred out of our bodies like a weak gene. Tossed it out…
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Meet me at Four Seasons (not that Four Seasons)

You know what happened. The announcement went out that the Trump campaign would hold a press conference about the election at the Four Seasons in Philadelphia. The Four Seasons….Total Landscaping, cough cough. Oh my. Claire Lampen at The Cut aptly called it “a dark-horse contender for the day’s most captivating development yet.” Of course it’s…
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A good reason not to write

People will tell you that writing is hard. They’ll tell you that if they don’t write. If they do write. Especially the people who want to write, but don’t. (They complain most of all.) I am well aware of the fears around writing: …I’ll never be able to do it. …If I do it, it’ll probably…
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Tale of a website launch in 10 lines

Here’s the story of the creation and launch of a completely brand new, from-the-ground-up website in 10 lines of dialogue: ME: This is going to be hard. TEAM: It should be pretty straightforward. ME: I like this font. TEAM: OK. ME: Let’s plan for a mid-March launch. What could go wrong? (Enter Pandemic.) ME: I…
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Anything is possible. Start with the impossible.

Have you met Annie Dillard? Probably not in person, but met her, as in, on the page. She’s one of the most unusual writers you’ll ever read. Her words leap to the surface and surprise you with their compact moving parts, their stunning clarity, how they make magic of everyday things. I found this piece on…
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Positive feedback does not = blowing smoke

Do you know how much more effective positive feedback is to negative attention? What do you think. Twice as much? Ten times at most? Try 30. Positive attention is 30x’s more powerful than negative attention in creating high performance on a team. (That comes from Marcus Buckingham & Ashley Goodall.) Oh, so that means we…
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