Not too long ago, I talked about taking the time to relax on a busy day in order to be more productive. Those little microbreaks can make an earth-shattering difference in what can get done in a day.
But there comes a time when microbreaks aren’t enough.
It’s kind of like sleep. You can take short naps during the day, but in the end you need to get more sleep at night to be fully rested. Continue Reading
In many aspects of business and life, it’s important to have a plan. Like when you have a goal, it should get turned into an actionable plan. When you want to save money or lose weight or get a job, you make a plan.
My job happens to be very plan-based. It’s a good fit for me, as I am a planner. I love spreadsheets and I love having lists and schedules and plans.
Not everyone is going to be like me. But there is a hidden advantage to having a plan that not many people consider. Continue Reading
Pain is a funny thing. Not that it’s haha funny, but that it can range from annoyance to torturous.
Most people think of pain as just a way for your body to notice something hurts. But it’s actually a warning system.
Think about it. If we didn’t feel pain in our feet, we wouldn’t realize that they are being overused and need some rest. That can lead to potentially more or worse damage. Continue Reading
Well kids, today we’re going to talk about rules. Don’t all start cheering at once.
I’m not going to say I was well behaved as a child, because that would be a lie. But I was a really well behaved young adult. In high school I was a model student and you had better believe that I followed the rules.
Rules are important. They provide structure and safety for the people in a society. Rules define the good and the bad in plain black and white. Continue Reading
I grew up in the 90s. Backstreet Boys, Britney, living on Sesame Street with my neighbor Mr. Rogers. Or something.
To this day, I still love Mr. Rogers. I feel like he taught so much to so many kids. We’re missing out on his wisdom and guidance. And yes, adults can use his wisdom, too. He is a wisdom without ages, a real life Yoda. But with better sentence structure.
In one of his episodes, Mr. Rogers takes a crayon out to draw on an easel. He says that even though he’s not good at drawing, it doesn’t really matter. It’s the fun of doing it that’s important. Continue Reading
Ugh. Life can be just plain exhausting. What is there to do when there is just too much to do?
At work lately it feels as though I have 20 gallons of work to do and only a 5 gallon bucket to fit it in. There’s more to do than I can possibly finish in the allotted time.
So what can I do?
When there is too much to get done, the best thing to do is take a break. Relax. Continue Reading
Pay attention to the small things, for one day you will look back and realize they were the big things.
It’s so easy to get caught up in big projects, exhausting jobs, and all sorts of big problems.
Sometimes we spend too much time thinking about and worrying about the future. We lose sight of the little things that are right in front of us.
So I’ll keep things small today, go out and appreciate the small things.
I’m not always the most punctual person. Sometimes because I don’t give myself enough time to get ready, but mostly because I don’t estimate the right amount of time.
Time is something we get really specific about. We can measure it down to miniscule increments. Thousandths or millionths of seconds. Every moment in time can be life-altering.
We measure centuries, decades, years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, seconds, and on and on and on.
So we know how to count time.
But do we know how to plan for time? Continue Reading
There’s a comic that seems to pop up whenever two people are arguing over different perspectives on the same topic. In the comic, two people are looking down at a number painted on the road. To one person, it looks like a 9. To the other it looks like a 6. They are arguing over it being a 6 versus a 9.
The original caption on it says that it is possible for them to both be right, that their point of view has provided them with different answers. Neither of them is wrong.
That caption has been crossed out in some versions and instead it’s written that the number was painted with the intention of being one specific number. That both people should back up, reorient themselves, and figure out what the number really is instead of just what it looks like from their side of things. Continue Reading
Does it ever just feel like everything is a huge project? Like things that are no big deal to other people are mountain-sized tasks for you?
For me, that mountain is dishes. Mount Potsnpans if you will.
A well-adjusted, normal person would probably wash their dishes daily or a couple times a week, depending on the number of dishes. But I’ve never claimed to be normal. Continue Reading