Let’s Talk About My Favorite Organizing Tool. My favorite organizing tool invites experimentation. I have relied on it + enjoyed playing with it since 2006.It does make my heart pitter-patter so. If you’re an organizing tool, it can be really hard to hold my attention. I have always had a lot of balls in the…
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Viewfinder. The vision board replacement you need this year. A return to lockdown locks out the ability to meet in person for my annual Vision Board workshops, so let’s meet online for a fancy new version with even more bells and whistles. Viewfinder mixes Magic Words and the Self-fulfilling Prophecy Letter of past years with a new set of coaching tools designed…
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A decent coaching session takes about an hour, 90 minutes if we’re digging deep. Sometimes, though, you just need a quick tip and a reminder that you’re not alone to get you back on track.This one is only scary until you try it once; our group of writers is friendly, welcoming, and supportive. My writing community,…
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You’ve heard this a million bazillion times already: get a journal and write in it! Record your thoughts, feelings, memories, fantasies–it’s good for you! Better yet, start a Gratitude Journal! That will save your life! Stop rolling your eyes. A journal is a practical tool for getting you back in the writing saddle. Every skill…
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A decent coaching session takes about an hour, 90 minutes if we’re digging deep. Sometimes, though, you just need a quick tipand a reminder that you’re not alone to get you back on track. This one is simple, life-affirming, and entirely under-rated. But that’s not a productive use of time, you say? Pshah! You are mistaken,…
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I am in love with this article by Markham Heid: Why the Stressed Brain Falls Back on Old Habits. Read it. Gain some clarity. Inform your rebel self, the one who breaks good habits and exerts her willpower over your good intentions, that if she lets you establish some of those good habits she thinks…
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Full disclosure: It’s actually 3 minutes and 33 seconds. I share my brain with OCD tendencies and she says three threes are better than one. I let her have her way with certain things, like setting the timer, so she won’t feel the need to throw a tantrum later on and refuse to let me…
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This morning in the Hashtag Micro Retreat I chose #fires. I wrote through some complex feelings, relived a recent conversation about resiliency, and ended up speculating about my grandparents and great-grandparents and how much better equipped I am now to understand what they went through: Fleeing pogroms, successive emigrations in search of safety and survival,…
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I ordered something online, but it wasn’t what I got. Scrolling through Instagram, I came across an ad for a convertible laptop desk that was perfect for writing in bed, on the couch, hell, even sitting on the floor of your dorm room. Sometimes my room resembles a dorm room, so I got excited and…
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If you’re like me, you get as much or more work done sitting up in bed than at your desk or the dining room table, which, let’s be real, get overrun by other people and their stuff and my stuff and your stuff and everyone’s stuff way too quickly. You know what solves that problem?…
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