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The Fab Folio: a blog about surviving work, starting a business and other stories

  • The Power of Small Beginnings: How Starting Ugly Can Lead to Big Success

    The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. -Mark Twain Hallo! Welcome to The Fab Folio Blog! It’s Patricia here, and it’s an amazing pleasure to write to you about my greatest obsessions: books,…

  • Tales of the Office: How I Survived Working With a Bully 

    Tales of the Office: How I Survived Working With a Bully 

    …Or How A Chocolate Muffin Became The Last Straw That Broke The Camel’s back If you let a bully intimidate you , he’s going to do it again. You’ve got to stand up to these strong-arm tactics. Charles Djou Ignorance is bliss, they say. That was my mental state when I started a new job…

  • The Resistance.

    The Resistance.

    Photo by Joshua Abner from Pexels It’s time to choose you. Resistance /rɪˈzɪst(ə)ns the refusal to accept or comply with something. e.g. “They displayed a narrow-minded resistance to change.” No, this is not a call to arms against some authoritarian regime, nor is it a preamble to a mass uprising against the bourgeoisie by those who hate…

  • The Journey Begins

    Thanks for joining me! Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

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