The trend in my circles is to have a one word theme for the year. Mine is "manage". I'm deep into learning to be a manager, I'm trying to manage my weight, I'm surviving a global disaster, and I'm trying to get through all my regularly scheduled work, some of which includes managing people's money. There are years to excel, and sometimes it is just ( Read more... )

I listened to a podcast recently that made me want to go take notes. It was April Perry on Nov. 18, 2017 interviewing Dr. Matthew May (trained by Dr. David Burns) on how to overcome blockages.

Here are the show notes: https://learndobecome.com/episode21/I liked the therapist tools he used. It's worth listening to this podcast again sometime ( Read more... )

So I've been doing more work trying to find triggers to add habit stacks to. In case that sentence doesn't make sense, it's basically the lingo from Charles Duhigg's "The Power of Habit". The idea is that you can change a routine that comes after a trigger and make it a new habit, something you do whenever that trigger happens. It takes a bit of ( Read more... )

Guess who has two thumbs (and also two breasts) and just got tapped to write for Forbes?

Smashing the Patriarchy, baby, smashing the patriarchy.

My daughter gave me this book for my birthday, as she knows I'm interested in productivity and self-improvement. It's getting a lot of press right now. He's a consultant on productivity, sort of an inspirational speaker. I assume he has a blog and/or podcast, because this reads largely like a bunch of his posts cobbled together. Actually, it reads ( Read more... )

A few months ago I read a book called "Mini Habits for Weight Loss" that was probably not worth buying. It had one good take-away, though, which was ( Read more... )

On Wednesdays I smash the patriarchy. It's kind of a long-term goal and I chip away at it bit by bit. But as I focus on stretch goals, on long-term ways to better myself, I've got a bunch like this stewing around in my head. These are actual goals, not dreams: I know the difference. Hence my work with Strategic Coach (see that last entry about ( Read more... )

I've been getting executive coaching since November, 2017. I meet with the coach virtually for an hour every two weeks or so (with time off for tax season, etc). It's an oddly helpful thing. I often can't see where or how she helped me, but I can see the problems I brought to the engagement being slowly solved. I like to think that I do this for my ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the distant past I must have read "Gettting Things Done" by David Allen. I know this because I recently re-read it and discovered that I've been doing this for years. It's a great book, by the way, and everyone should read it at some point. Some of it is useful across the board: break big projects down into the next action. Have a ( Read more... )

I am reading "Essentialism" by Greg McKeown and thinking about my Big Rocks. How to focus on the essential when I have seven core values? What is my main priority? Because, as McKeown points out, for several hundred years the word "priority" was only ever singular.

How will I spend my one wild and precious life, as Mary Oliver asks ( Read more... )