I grew up around my grandparents. My mom’s parents and my dad’s mom lived close, and we saw them often. It was wonderful to have them nearby: I had two homes-away-from-home where I knew I belonged; where there were adults other than my parents ready to play with me, cook with me, and as I got older, […]

In times of rest, my mind is often busy planning my next several moves. Sometimes this is useful – on the bus I jot down blog post ideas, or I break down tasks for a big project.  Other times a busy mind is the worst – waking up before my alarm and lying there while […]

How do you know when you’re ready to launch? It could be anything: a side project, a business, a book, a career, yourself after college, a family, etc. Time: There’s no such thing as perfect timing. As this article on happiness puts it: “There may be better and worse times to do something, but there’s no perfect […]

This post is (mostly) for introverts. Everyone has limits. Your mind and body can only handle so much before you become useless to the world. Across the introvert-extrovert scale, people’s limits vary. Introverts “may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas.” (Susan […]

At a lot of jobs and in life, there are tasks you will have to do over and over – emails to send, meetings to run, presentations to write, events to plan. Often these tasks will be months apart from each other. As you design the meeting or event in the present, it’s obvious how to do […]

I had a client scheduled today, then woke up feeling like a knife was wedged in my throat. I rescheduled my client, and I found that I had an entire day with no plans! I briefly imagined jumping on the productivity wheel and producing results for hours and hours. But when you’re sick, it’s hard to […]