Homemaking
How to Hoard Like a Dragon: Onward
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Lifelong Learning
Let There Be No End In Sight
What Little League and Michael Phelps can teach us about follow-through. Playing softball as a kid, a good coach will tell kids not to stop at the base where they’re headed but to instead run through the base. Otherwise, kids get so focused on any given base that they will slow Read more…
Lifelong Learning
Your Fear of Others Holding Onto Old Stories About You Is an Old Story You Need to Let Go
You cannot control the stories that others tell themselves, you can only decide what story you are going to tell yourself as you move forward. This is something I’m still struggling with. A big part of why I had been so excited about maybe going back to school and getting Read more…
Lifelong Learning
You Can Love Every Aspect of Your Life As It Is Now And Still Be Making Progress Toward The Life You Want
Living a life of any kind of balance is at its core a life of being and doing. The aim of every productivity expert you come across is going to be to get you do more, create more, live more. If they do ask you to do less, it’s because Read more…
Lifelong Learning
You Should Give Just As Much or More Energy to Your Own Healing As You Do to Others’
Certain neurological conditions aside, we each of us have an instinct for social survival that helps us plenty in at least worrying about those relationships immediately on our radar. We worry about being too much of one thing and not enough of another. We worry about what other people are Read more…
Lifelong Learning
What Sailing Teaches Us About Avoidance
Maintain balance on waters stormy or calm and circumnavigate anything that promises to sink you. Very often we talk about persistence in terms of pushing through, maintaining forward motion at all costs. If you’re in a boat, that kind of thinking can get you killed. Ever heard of the Titanic? When Read more…
Lifelong Learning
Word for Word: Substituting Dynamics for Disorder
“I have Obsessive-Compulsive Dynamics” sounds and feels a lot better than saying I have a disorder. A disorder says I lack order, “normalcy,” conformity. Dynamics say I’m interesting, complex, human. Disorder suggests that lack of order means something is wrong with me. Dynamics communicate knowing my limits and working with them, Read more…