Well, that was an extended break—longer than I expected. It’s interesting to see how easy it is to fall out of habits quickly. I’ve read in more than one place that you need to stick with something for at least 30 days to make it a habit, but it sure is easier than that to […]
Like many people, I can get stressed and overwhelmed. This is fairly common, I suspect, in many jobs because so many roles are about juggling and organizing multiple thoughts and priorities and tasks all at once. When it gets to be too much, I get what I call, task overloaded. I have tried to teach myself […]
I talk a lot about having to put thought into things. I even have a term for it: “Stare at the wall mode”. (You’ve probably heard me use this term before on this blog.) This is when you are wrestling with something in your mind and are working on trying to solve a problem or […]
So I have been packing and preparing to move (which may be why I have been remiss in posting lately). This involves packing a lot of boxes, and then moving said boxes into moving trucks (or more accurately, in my case moving-truck-sized shipping containers sitting on my driveway). I spent a recent Saturday packing a […]
One of my first jobs was working at a pizza restaurant. There are many little tips and tricks you’ll learn over time at any job, and here’s an important one I learned when cooking pizza. As we would pull the pizza pans from the oven and transfer the pizza onto a cutting board, the pans […]
You know the old saying, “It’s not the act of doing something hard, it’s getting started.”? And once you get started it’s not that bad. I know that is true with me. If I have a task I need to do, like wash the car or mow the lawn or run on the treadmill, what […]
I’ll be honest, I had to force myself to write this blog post today. But I already skipped writing for almost two weeks, and I told myself that I could not have another sandwich today until I wrote and posted a blog post. And I have to learn to be disciplined and keep my promises […]
I haven’t written a post in a really long time, but the other day I made a commitment to myself to get back to being intentional about posting regularly. I was trying to decide whether to discuss it here or just start posting and pretending like nothing ever happened, but I eventually settled on discussing […]
I’m sure many of you have heard of the famous Google 20%. This is the concept that Google engineers are allowed to spend 20% of their time on whatever they want. The idea is that many of the company’s most innovative and disruptive initiatives come from such a policy, and it also helps with employee […]
All last week I was out of the office on a business trip. Now usually when I travel like this, I basically write off the week as not really getting anything done. Instead I focus on what I’m traveling for, then just plan on catching up when I return to my desk. But this week […]
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