On Moving On

Reporting to you live from moving central. Our house is totally torn apart as we separate the items we’re keeping from the ones we’re giving away. Letting go hasn’t been that difficult. It’s clear to me what I want to keep. We are also storing some items in a back room so I don’t have […]

How To Get Going Again

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”false” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text]I’ve been talking recently about vicious self-talk and beating yourself up over not getting further on your goals. It doesn’t help when every time you think about your project you get caught in a loop of regret and […]

Conversations With Yourself

How many of us talk to ourselves like this? “Way to go, good job, you got this, yep that’s the way.” Or does it sound more like, “You idiot. What do you think you’re doing? No one’s going to want that.” A lot of us who have trouble getting things done are very mean to […]

I ought to be able to do this myself

Sometimes I get great satisfaction from figuring out how to do things myself. I once spent a ridiculous amount of time turning an old router into a wireless bridge to boost the signal upstairs. It worked! I also tried to teach myself programming so that I could build an app I had an idea for. […]

What brings you joy? What advances your goals?

I have not yet read Marie Kondo’s book, The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up. (I did just get it electronically from my library so it will not clutter up my house). Everything I’ve heard about it rings true to me. I have definitely felt the uplift when I purge unwanted crap from my house. […]