I am hereby declaring January a month that is a No Man’s Land and is not 2012 yet, and is really just an extra planning month. (Yes, you can do that over halfway through the month. I checked.) See, I got back from the holidays at the end of December, and in between the physical […]
This year was arguably the hardest year of my life, and in some ways also the best year yet. In 2011, I (in roughly chronological order): buried my grandpa met new friends (and some old ones I hadn’t seen in person yet) and caught up with old ones at SXSW 2011 worked myself into the ground […]
With habit building, as with most areas of life, there’s one place where your efforts will pay off disproportionately. That place is finding & defining your anchor habits. What are anchor habits? Anchor habits are habits, preferably positive (or at least neutral) habits, that you naturally gravitate towards doing on a regular basis. They can […]
The day started like any other. I remember that I was feeling a little off, and still wearing my PJs even though it was early afternoon. Someone knocked on our front door, which surprised me – I wasn’t expecting anyone. I threw on my London Calling t-shirt over my PJ top, peeked through the blinds […]
One of the ways that I express my introversion (INFJ, represent!) strongest is my habit of keeping everything inside my head. I forget that other people are not privy to my thoughts, and I also forget I haven’t said something out loud yet. This leads to me assuming that people know what’s going on with me & […]
What if there was one thing you could do – one effort – that could decrease rates of HIV/AIDS decrease hunger decrease poverty decrease illiteracy and get more funds circulating in the developing world? Wouldn’t that be nice? The good news is: there is. Why the Girl Effect? Because: less than two cents of every […]
This is another vintage post, this time from Wicked Whimsy, tweaked & rewritten just for you. New posts resuming next Thursday! Every now and then, we all have one of those days. You wake up feeling icky – not sick, just sort of a lingering malaise that you can’t quite shake. Something caused by nightmares […]
On August 14th, a bright & sunny day, I was crossing the street and I turned my ankle. I fell on my foot funny. It hurt, a lot. It continued to hurt. The swelling didn’t really go down, even days later. After some prompting, we went to the doctor. The verdict: my foot was broken. […]
I recently finished reading Find Your Strongest Life by Marcus Buckingham. I totally loved it, for the most part, & have a review (and psst, maybe a giveaway, just sayin’ – keep your eyes peeled) coming up soon. One of the things he mentions is something that’s been a theory of my own for a […]
(A lil ditty inspired by this post, & the comment I left on it.) I know you. I know how annoyed you get, trying to nail yourself into a box every time, only to find that no, this isn’t the right box either. Nothing fits. Everything stifles. You end up frustrated, feeling pulled in every […]