A day without email. No meetings. No pings on chat applications. No work questions. A rare day. An in between day. I’m astounded at how much breathing room I feel even after one day. How little anxiety even though I’m about to start something new. My mind can focus on the task at hand....
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When I was young I thought days were infinite. They felt long and drawn out and full of possibility. I don’t remember feeling tired when I was young. But as I’ve grown older each day feels shorter. More finite. And heavier somehow. Like time is ticking away. Heaviness feels like a perpetual state lately....
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If you don’t speak confidently about yourself who will? When given the chance to share your story don’t feel you have to talk yourself down. You’ve lived your life and know what you’ve been through and accomplished. And you know it better than anyone. If you undervalue yourself you will be undervalued elsewhere. It...
Continue readingWhat Is This Feeling?
I have felt this feeling before. At other times in my life. Feeling like I’m stuck where I am but knowing that I’m capable of more. That I will do more. That I have to put in the time. Be deliberate. Stay focused. I felt this way in 2009 when I was trying to...
Continue readingSpend More Time In Low Stakes
Too much of what we do is high stakes. Fire fighting. Focus on end goals and not process. Your average day might feel really busy doing all the things as fast as possible but at the end of the day you might not be able to quantify what you actually did. Because of the...
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When you’re stuck it’s hard to see just how stuck you are. Usually you finally see it either because you have a breakdown or someone else points out the change they’ve seen in you, or both. Then you feel even worse for a moment. It’s exhausting and daunting because now that you know you’re...
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I’m sitting here watching my boys slurp Cheerios and milk and overwhelmed with gratitude. I adore them. They mean everything to me. I did not know parenting would be so hard and so all consuming. My parents did an exceptional job of not transferring their stress and worry onto my brothers and me and...
Continue readingPut The Oars In The Boat
You can’t row a boat without oars. You need the equipment in place in order to propel yourself along the water. No good stroke was taken simply by thinking about it. You have to do the thing to do the thing and get good at it or enjoy it. So it is with anything...
Continue readingOne Minute, Three Minutes, Five Minutes
Today I walked outside to see huge beautiful flowers blooming wide open on two of my pumpkin plants. They delighted me so much. There is something so special about growing your own vegetables. I could fiddle in the garden all day. I want to learn. When I learn I grow. And growth makes me...
Continue readingIncentives
Forgive me in advance as this is not a fully formed thought. But I’ve given myself five minutes to write and it’s important to me that I flex this muscle tonight. I’ve been letting goals like writing daily slip and I don’t feel good about it. So here we go. How do you incentivize...
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