Weekly check-in 8/29/22

It’s almost September! I will be in Idaho next weekend visiting family, so I will miss my check-in next week. Here’s my September plan and bird… LAST WEEK Get to an ending for the memoir (if not fully fleshed out) ๐Ÿ’š Beautiful mornings 7/7 ๐Ÿ’š Focus session (15 min) 5/5 ๐Ÿ’š Bedtime ritual 7/7 ๐Ÿ’š…

Weekly update: 8/8/22

Each week, I update my accountability group in the Fearless Living Academy with my intentions for the week, as well as an overview of how the past week went. I am going to start sharing here for even more public accountability! Key: โค๏ธ Not done/ needs love ๐Ÿ’› Partly done ๐Ÿ’š 100% completed ๐Ÿ’™ Did…

Weekly check-in: August 1, 2022

Each week, I update my accountability group in the Fearless Living Academy with my intentions for the week, as well as an overview of how the past week went. I am going to start sharing here for even more public accountability! Key: โค๏ธ Not done/ needs love ๐Ÿ’› Partly done ๐Ÿ’š 100% completed ๐Ÿ’™ Did…

Productivity: Why is this so hard?

Thereโ€™s no way to control this to-do list. It has a mind of its own. Sometimes it races to add to itself and flow off the edge of my dot-grid journal. It wonโ€™t be contained by Todoist or Things. It is full of never-do tasks that I look at and decide โ€œnot right now, no…

Mid-year check-in

I launched this blog around the beginning of 2022, and while I am pleased with some of the content Iโ€™ve published, it is not really the blog that I want it to be. Why? Iโ€™m writing it as if Iโ€™m an expert trying to โ€œmonetizeโ€ or create professional clout in an area that Iโ€™m frankly…

Why I stopped setting big goals

The bigger your goal, the less likely you are to achieve it. I think this is some kind of law of thermodynamics or immutable force of nature. Okay, maybe not. But it does feel true doesnโ€™t it? Big, audacious goals just donโ€™t seem to get done. Life happens. Plans change. You donโ€™t find the time….

7 Harmful Productivity Myths

It seems that everyone — regardless of level of success or actual rate of “productivity” — would like to be MORE PRODUCTIVE. I sure would. I have about 17 projects I would like to be working on apart from the endless should do’s (the dishes!) and hafta do’s (pay the rent!), not to mention a…

Things I’m Not Very Good At: The Mundane Stuff

Self-employment has certain pitfalls (or benefits, depending on how you look at it), like the ability to lie around in bed reading the internet as long as you like, any day of the week. In this morningโ€™s link casserole, I happened across this great little piece of adviceย from Derek Sivers for getting through difficult times….

Job Hunting for Dummies: Structure and Connection

When unemployed or freelancing (or some combination thereof), itโ€™s pretty easy to sink into an anxious, disorganized funk. Throwing rรฉsumรฉs into the void of the internet feels โ€œproductiveโ€ โ€” except of course it isnโ€™t. Iโ€™m always strangely satisfied when I actually receive a rejection form letter two weeks later, because that means there actually is…