It's a message which I reflect on whenever I face a challenge in life.
Whenever I face a problem, supervisors should support me.
I've always been the one with the plan and whenever I was faced with a problem I haven't encountered before my first reaction was to panic.
"Whenever I am faced with someone who holds the strings of my fate — an immigration officer, a professor — I can feel the distant reverberations from that day, my inauguration into the dark art of submission..
Lucky for us, there are a host of resources to turn to: Udacity and Khan Academy, executive training at the d.School and Rotman, and new courses offered at our own IDEO U. Whenever I'm faced with a tough business challenge, rather than trying to use some prescribed CEO logic, I tackle it as a design problem.
Whenever I am faced with a fear, I call it out.
Now, whenever I am faced with trials in life, I simply remember the story of Prophet Yunus.
Whenever I am faced with these monstrosities I can't help but think of my friend, Michelle, who doesn't do Halloween because she couldn't see herself participating in a celebration of evil.
John still teases me about chickening out, and in my travels since, whenever I'm faced with a decision about backing off or taking a risk, I remember that I never made it to the Maze, though John did later, by himself.
Over the past few months, I have adopted a mantra for myself: "What kind of woman do you want to be?" It's something I ask myself whenever I'm faced with a tough decision, an out-of-control emotion or an impulse I know is unhealthy.
