podcast

Podcast Episode 36: What I do Instead of New Year’s Resolutions

December 9, 2020
In this epsiode I talk about what I do instead of New Year's resolutions: Picking a word of the year Brainstorming Vision boards 12 week plans as well as how I approach changing habits. Links: Making a dream/vision board with Canva: http://lauraearnest.com/dream-board/ Canva: https://www.canva.com/ The Power of When by Dr. Michael Breus https://amzn.to/3odaWdk Support me at Patreon: You can find all the episodes over at Patreon.
managing energy

The Basics of Managing Energy

December 7, 2020
One of the things that came out of the 2020 Reader Survey is that people are struggling with energy management.

I’m not a naturally energetic person. In fact, some of those same readers made the comment that not everyone has energy to manage everything that I do.

I laughed until I cried at the thought that anyone in the world thought that I was a peppy and energetic person. I’m not. I don’t sleep well. I don’t sleep enough. I’m often irritable from lack of sleep. I sometimes want to put my head down on my desk and nap.

But over the years, I have learned how to manage my energy, and even what to do to increase it. So today I present the Energy Primer.
keep your house clean

Keep Your House Clean Without Marathon Sessions

November 23, 2020
My mother was a stay-at-home mom. Her cleaning system wasn't going to work for me as a working mom. But the one system that seemed to work stopped working when we moved into a bigger space. Here's how I stopped doing marathon cleaning sessions and got it under control.
working from home

How To Manage Working From Home

November 16, 2020
Working from home...many of us are doing it right now. Some are doing it better than others. So how can you make working from home successful? Today we look at various ways, including how to make the mental shift to and from working; maintaining an office space; keeping up motivation and the importance of notes.
Why My Team Is Thriving At Work

Why My Team Is Thriving At Work

November 9, 2020
This has been a hell of a year. COVID has put a stress on most working people, if it left them employed at all.

I've been working at home since March, and there is no sign of returning to the office. Yet our team is thriving. Someone recently asked me why I thought that was the case. And here are the reasons:
pareto

Applying Pareto to Pareto, or Math Doesn’t Work That Way

November 2, 2020
The Pareto Principle has been much abused in productivity circles. But I recently saw something that blew me away. Someone suggested that if 80% of the results comes from 20% of the work, then it must also hold that 64% of the results comes from 4% of the work.

Umm, no.

So I'm going to put on my math teacher hat here for a bit.
Book Review: Eat That Frog!

Book Review: Eat That Frog!

October 26, 2020
Eating frogs? Ick! Well, if you eat a frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. And that applies to productivity as well. Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog! puts some basic productivity principles he's used for success into terms of how to find the frogs, and swallow them down.