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: ❤️ Not done/ needs love 💛 Partly done 💚 100% completed 💙 Did…
Category: productivity
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: ❤️ Not done/ needs love 💛 Partly done 💚 100% completed 💙 Did…
Productivity: Why is this so hard?
There’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 won’t be contained by Todoist or Things. It is full of never-do tasks that I look at and decide “not 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 I’ve published, it is not really the blog that I want it to be. Why? I’m writing it as if I’m an expert trying to “monetize” or create professional clout in an area that I’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 doesn’t it? Big, audacious goals just don’t seem to get done. Life happens. Plans change. You don’t find the time….
My 2022 Bullet Journal Setup
Learn how I use my Bullet Journal to manage goals, to-dos, habits, and more.
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 morning’s link casserole, I happened across this great little piece of advice from Derek Sivers for getting through difficult times….
Job Hunting for Dummies: Structure and Connection
When unemployed or freelancing (or some combination thereof), it’s pretty easy to sink into an anxious, disorganized funk. Throwing résumés into the void of the internet feels “productive” — except of course it isn’t. I’m always strangely satisfied when I actually receive a rejection form letter two weeks later, because that means there actually is…
Why I Never Delete Email
I used to aspire to “inbox zero” — that zen state of an empty inbox with important messages filed into their proper folders and everything else archived. When I was busy, this was pretty much impossible to maintain. I used to be a vendor for Microsoft, and they like to send emails. If I was…
Plumb Wonderful 