{"id":118,"date":"2011-04-07T17:34:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me.business.holycross.edu\/?p=118"},"modified":"2011-04-07T17:34:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T17:34:59","slug":"the-power-of-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2011\/04\/07\/the-power-of-possibility\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m not going to do this justice, Sheila Cavanaugh&#8217;s presentation on Tuesday night was too inspiring for me to not attempt to post some of her message.<\/p>\n<p>When you wake up every morning, remember that you&#8217;ll never have another today.\u00a0 Make it worth it.\u00a0 The rest of you life is a question mark, so make sure you don&#8217;t settle.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have a job the day you graduate, don&#8217;t fret. Keep at it. Things happen for a reason.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll find a job and, more often than not, another after that.<\/p>\n<p>Just because you work in the corporate world, doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t serve your community.\u00a0 Companies have community outreach and development programs that do wonderful things locally and globally.<\/p>\n<p>In a world full of criticism, take time to praise others.\u00a0 Years ago, Sheila decided to start a movement to write letters of thanks and praise to help balance out the letters of disappointment and anger companies often receive.\u00a0 Try to make your positive comments outnumber the negative.<\/p>\n<p>Every person you meet in life is there to serve a purpose &#8211; to teach, to learn, to inspire, to challenge &#8211; don&#8217;t underestimate each interaction.\u00a0 You might be passing up the chance to develop a life-long relationship.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg, so don&#8217;t miss Sheila the next time she visits campus.<\/p>\n<p>That about wraps up our workshops and dinner speakers for the semester.\u00a0 Stay tuned for posts about Prof. Chu&#8217;s financial portfolio class, CAM, and the Finance bootcamp we have in the works!<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Kaithlyn<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Kaithlyn Kayer<br \/>\nAssociate Director, Entrepreneurial Studies<\/p>\n<p>David Chu<br \/>\nDirector, Entrepreneurial Studies &amp; Pre-business Advisor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m not going to do this justice, Sheila Cavanaugh&#8217;s presentation on Tuesday night was too inspiring for me to not attempt to post some of her message. When you wake up every morning, remember that you&#8217;ll never have another today.\u00a0 Make it worth it.\u00a0 The rest of you life is a question mark, so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2011\/04\/07\/the-power-of-possibility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Power of Possibility&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[181,272,335,368,371,509],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-finance","tag-jobs","tag-non-profit","tag-prebusiness","tag-presentation","tag-women-in-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}