Author Archives: Jeff Sham

There can be many definitions of a word depending on the context. In one context, a word can be positive and in another, a word can be neutral or negative. Today, a coworker asked me what I meant when I described someone as nice. I didn’t have a good response to describe what I meantContinue reading “What do you mean by “Nice”?”

Today I went to my brother’s wedding banquet. The official wedding ceremony occurred a few months ago and the wedding celebration my brother and his wife threw was a couple of weeks ago, but my parents wanted to throw a wedding banquet to celebrate their union as well. I think that this is relatively commonContinue reading “March 15th – Chinese Wedding Banquet”

I went to the climbing gym for the first time in a long time. In the past, I’ve tried climbing with ropes, but this time I tried bouldering. I’d been invited by my friend Michael in the past, but I was not willing to give it a try. I gave excuses like “It is tooContinue reading “Climbing Gym”

I recently attended a bachelor’s party for the first time. The group had chatted about the plans for a few weeks now, so I had a general idea about what was going to happen. The plans sounded a lot different than plans that I’ve seen in TV shows and movies, so I wasn’t sure howContinue reading “Attending my first bachelor’s party”

I recently was asked by my manager to think about some goals for myself spanning 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, and 12 months. I was able to think of some areas of improvement, but before I filled out my goals for my career, I was thinking about goals for my life in general. IContinue reading “Thinking about Goals”

I recently had a coworker say an phrase that I thought was funny. So, I thought that I’d start a list of phrases that I thought are neat and keep adding to it as I go about my life.

Recently, I’ve been thinking that I may benefit from having a life coach or a career coach. It sounds a bit odd for me to want to ask a random person to help me to gain clarity about my goals and desires, but it definitely seems like I have not been doing enough for myselfContinue reading “Life/Career Coach?”