Tweet If you have a blog you’ll attract trolls. If you have an opinion, a position, anything - you’ll attract people who disagree, and a few who are violently or rudely opposed to you and your idea or input. If you comment on someone else’s blog, or participate in anyway online - you will encounter pinheads, jerks, trolls and flamers who have no lives and no goal in life other than to make you miserable.
I have some good advice for dealing with all of them. Respond ONE time …

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
Time. I think I’ve wasted 2/3’s of my life worrying about and fixing or trying to fix what other people think is urgent. I …

“You always have the power to reinvent your career. But with that power comes a significant responsibility: being accountable for your own success.” - Sally Hogshead
One of the most amazing things I’ve realized recently is that good or bad, no matter what the situation is that we’re in, we have in some way contributed to our getting there. On the one hand that could be seen as depressing because that’s just one more thing we can kick ourselves over. But on the other hand - how empowering it is! …

After living in the remote wilderness of West Virginia all his life, an old hillbilly decided it was time to visit the big city.
In one of the stores he picks up a mirror and looks in it. Not ever having seen one before, he remarked at the image staring back at him, “How about that! Here’s a picture of my daddy.”
He bought the mirror thinking it was a picture of his daddy, but on the way home he remembered his wife didn’t like his father, so he hung it in …