Back in 2008 I was suddenly laid off from my job. My client canceled all contracts in the space of an afternoon, and my own company, which I had been with for 12 years, laid me off via email the next morning.After years of being in an office, I was suddenly at loose ends. My daughter was in first grade,…
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I’m starting to hear comparisons of how people spent their isolation time. You know what? I think you’re doing well if you managed to come out of the last two years more or less intact.
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Have you ever gotten so far behind in something that it would be easier to start over than to catch up? Sometimes you just have to cut your losses and start over.I recently realized I had a few hundred podcasts to listen to, and the list was growing bigger each week. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy them, I just…
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When things shut down for COVID in March of 2020, I believed that it would be a few weeks and we would be back to normal. 2 years later, nothing has returned to normal, and I’m pausing to consider how this last 2 years has impacted, and will continue to impact productivity, simplicity and deliberate living.
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Getting large amounts of tasks into any task manager can be hard. Today I will show you my method of using a spreadsheet to generate tasks that can be then emailed to my system.
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A feedback loop is something which gives you information about an action you have taken. As Wikipedia says: "the causal path that leads from the initial generation of the feedback signal to the subsequent modification of the event".I once heard a talk about the concept of feedback loops in relation to environmentalism. It got me thinking about feedback loops, and…
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It can be difficult to keep track of all the things you want to do at the same time as the things that you are currently doing. Having the information in one place is a start, but if you truly want to make sure that things don’t fall through the cracks, using a Kanban board is an excellent way to…
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Afternoon sleepiness is a normal function of our circadian rhythms. But our actions can make it better or worse. Here are 9 things I find help me get through the afternoon slump:
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I’ve always been cautious about new tools. I have spent too much time in the past chasing the new and shiny and then wasting time moving between systems. I have decided that unless there is a major problem with how I am doing things at the moment, I don’t need to look at other solutions. However, once issues are identified,…
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A friend of mine, struggling with organization and an insane schedule, has been balking at setting up basic routines to help her out. "They will limit my freedom and creativity" is something I have heard more than once. But I believe that having routines actually frees up and creates pockets of creative time...creative time I never seemed to have before…
