I've got away with my life and that is more important than anything else.
Like a ghost in a film, melting into the scenery, I was starting to vanish from my life, not by going away somewhere but just by staying where I was and doing what I had always done.
When I think about the moment that changed my life or the pivotal moments of my life, I think about when my mother passed away or when my daughter was born, and when I met my wife for the first time.
"Because it lets me get away from my everyday life, " he replied.
"I told Herb I had put too much of my life into Southwest Airlines to walk away from a chance to try and move it ahead, " recalls Parker, who joined the carrier in 1986, after seven years as a partner in Kelleher's former law firm.
So, what I want to say to every kid, every young person -- what I want all of you -- if you take away one thing from my speech, I want you to take away the notion that life is precious, and part of what makes it so wonderful is its diversity, that all of us are different.
But my desire to go away and travel was greater than my desire to live the good life.
When I decided to break away from my cubicle-bound life, I was 23 years old, the daughter of a protective family in India and had graduated from university in Singapore only two years earlier with a not-so-helpful Economics degree and a not-so-comforting amount of student debt.
Rock The Post, the company I co-founded, focuses on entrepreneurs and small businesses while shying away from community projects and fund my life campaigns.
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But what I have noticed is a shift in my networks away from sharing the ordinary pieces of life fabric to focusing on the bigger, flashier, grander (or more grandiose) moments.
There was just something about not having my personal life private at work that always made me shy away from developing any work-relationships.
You know, just as far as making sure that I do appreciate everything that I have in my life now and how easily that can all be taken away.
Like that rainbow which makes my heart leap up, life springs up in all its terrifying beauty, and then fades away into the nothingness from which it sprang.
When first joining the startup scene, I had shied away from process, remembering it as often being a destructive, life-sucking force from my days at big companies.
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