Some people say don’t get your hopes up because then you will be disappointed. I will have to disagree with this statement. Without hope you’re not vulnerable. If you’re not vulnerable, then this will lead you to build up walls around your heart.
Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
By: On the DL Don’t Put All Your Eggs In One Basket It’s a saying we’ve all heard at one point or another, and it can relate to a variety of situations: job prospects personal life choices relationships you name it I’ve followed that advice all my life. I plan everything I can and try
Putting On My Armor
By: High Hopes Everyday!!!
Insanity Or Courage?
“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” -Albert Einstein “Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.” –Ambrose Redmoon
Be Who You Are
Why is it that we find ourselves doing and saying things around guys we like that we would never do or say around our best friends?
There is no reason for this.
Be who you are because there is only one of you. Being true to yourself is more important than having that certain someone like you.
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Nothing In Life To Show For It
We all think we’re missing out on something that we think everyone else has.
The new college grad envies the person with the 9-to-5 job. The 50 something would love to be the fresh-faced 21-year-old with a whole potential career ahead and the freedom to do nearly anything.
When we’re married and saddled with a mortgage and either kids or pets, we think our single sister or brother is having a wild time out on the town with parties and no-strings-attached lovin’.
Birthdays often remind us of things we think we are missing in our lives
But more often lately, I see those without a wedding ring or children pine over those things.
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Growing Pains
One would assume that being a keen observer of relationships, having a master of art’s degree in communication studies, and being empathic means I am incredibly gifted at saying the right thing all the time.
The assumption would be wrong.
As I have negotiated the unfamiliar land that the Sip and Go Girl media EMPIRE has led me to, I discover being the “gossipy self help” of the World Wide Web can make me over-confident and cheeky.
That’s a sour combo when I fling my gifts in the faces of people as though I own the world of intuition.
I did that with sipandgogirl.com writer Picture Perfect. He submitted an article that, to me, seemed like a mini love letter to the woman who was a subject of it. He spoke highly of her in grand terms. Then, after submitting it, he contacted me worried that readers could identify him.
Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in the Granada Series. Probably figuring out the identity of Sip and Go Girl writers
Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop
There’s a scene in the “Sex and The City” movie that I’ve been thinking about recently.
Charlotte and Carrie are furniture shopping. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the movie, 
at this point Charlotte is pregnant after a long battle with infertility, Carrie has been stood up at the altar, and Miranda’s husband Steve slept with another woman.
Charlotte says, “Nobody gets everything they want! Look at you, look at Miranda. You’re good people and you two both got shafted. I’m so happy and… something bad is going to happen.” Carrie responds with, “Sweetie, you shit your pants this year. Maybe you’re done.”
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Sell Me Your Soul
I’ve been attending a lot of networking events. I like them.
Networking events are often the “sip and goes” of the business world. In many cases, despite a shared connection and decent chat, very little takes place other than people becoming peers on Linkedin.
The events can be informal or formal, but in general consist of people with goods or services to provide others. Some people are like me. They love talking and meeting new people and in the process meet others who help them grow professionally and personally.
But it wasn’t until one event recently that I faced outright sales pitches.
Any Excuse To Break Up
I love the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” It’s funny, irreverent, but totally true. And, again, it’s funny.
One, like many real life relationships, there are no “bad guys” aka real antagonists among the main characters forming the no-longer-together couple of Sarah and Peter. The movie viewer isn’t invited to hate them. Even the rock musician character of Aldous as the new love interest of Sarah is not meant to be hated.
Two, although there’s a big breakup scene early in the movie, it’s revealed through the plot that it was a relationship slowly dissolving and, really, neither Peter nor Sarah were all that happy in the relationship. That’s like real life too.
Here’s an example from the movie itself. It’s one of many.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7axkJnK1Xk
Laugh And The World Laughs With You
One thing about life that many people fail to recognize is the delightful absurdity of it. We try really hard to pretend everything is sensible and sane. But, really, the world is a crazy and yet funny place.
More than ten years ago, I realized someone close to me was an alcoholic and had been through treatment. Out-of-character low conversations on the phone and my keen intuition were two clues. The final clue was an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper covered with stickers and a platitude like “Easy Does It” or “One Day At A Time.” It was taped to a wall in this person’s home office.
Another person close to the recovering alcoholic did not know. I might have said something to her about my suspicions but she shrugged off the comments overall.
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Tales From Sip And Go Girl: “Jim”
Sometimes all I want is information.
I was job hunting and applied for two different public relations-type positions at a medical center.
I had been on a sip and go nearly a year before with a man who worked as that medical center’s Director of Radiology and Imaging Services. After three months had passed and I hadn’t even received an automated generic rejection from the hospital, I sent an email to the radiology guy I had met more than a year prior.
