Notes From a Facebook Sabbatical
And, we’re back. My apologies for not posting in so long. Between mid-August and mid-September, the entire What’s Up Smiley office (myself, 3 Moleskines, pair of dancing shoes) took a sabbatical from...
View ArticleThe Decision to Keep Going
Over the past year, I jumped head first into the creative vortex and somehow made it to the other side. The creative vortex is what separates the “I want to create” from the “I did create,” the “idea”...
View ArticleThis is a Community, Not a Book — How I’m Marketing The Quarter-Life...
After nearly a year of hard work, I finally finished writing my first book. The book launches April 7 on Amazon, and I can’t wait to share it with you. All of you have already been so incredibly...
View ArticleThe Quarter-Life Breakthrough is LIVE!
A Guide for Millennials to Find Meaningful Work Now Available on Amazon Today is a day for dreamers. Today is day for hustlers. Today is a day two years (actually, more like 30 years) in the...
View ArticleThe Quarter-Life Breakthrough: Launch Day Highlights
Yesterday was a very special day. Posts, tweets, texts, phone calls, and emails came pouring in from friends all around the world and from all parts of my life, dating back to elementary school. I...
View Article10 Steps to Turn Your Quarter-Life Crisis Into a Breakthrough
The Quarter-Life Breakthrough Visual Workbook Featured on Slideshare Feeling stuck? Over-dosing on FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)? Tired of climbing the career ladder? Interested in finding meaningful work...
View ArticleStop Asking People ‘What’s Next?’
I recently returned from my first-ever book tour. True to my book, a guide for twentysomethings to figure out what to do with their lives, the tour was DIY to its core. Many events were planned as I...
View ArticleLife Is A Typo
It was the day before the launch of my first book. It was a warm day in San Francisco—over 80 degrees—and even warmer in the East Bay. I had taken a 45-minute BART ride to Berkeley and rode my bike up...
View Article5 Things I Learned at Camp Grounded
In June I spent three weeks working as a camp counselor at Camp Grounded, a summer camp for adults in the redwoods of northern California, where we don’t use digital technology, we don’t talk about...
View ArticleSmiley’s New Website: smileyposwolsky.com
My new website! smileyposwolsky.com Dear Whatsupsmiley readers, It’s been a minute (okay, a minute and a half) since I last wrote a blog post here. I’ve been busy speaking about The Quarter-Life...
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