A Week Without Email on My Phone

Well, it’s Monday. I did it. A week without email or twitter access on my phone (the two things I check most compulsively). Nobody else said they were going to try it, but I took the plunge anyway. Here’s a few of my thoughts and consequences:

Drama vs. Theatrics

(S)He causes so much drama… — Anonymous

The Myth of Priorities

Today I met with my MasterMind group partner, and we started out our meeting by holding each other accountable for what we’d said we’d do the previous week.

“Did you announce your Defining Moment Webinar class?” she asked.

Building the Box

“Please. Draw me a sheep.”

For some folks, reading that is going to make them smile. They remember the story that is attached, of a lost pilot in the desert and a Little Prince who kept him company for a time. I warn you, those who are tempted to pick it up again: it’s not…

Pruning the Loveless

I promised a while back that I wasn’t going to keep harping on about the whole Do what you love philosophy, and I’m not — really. I confess, though, I still like reading about it. A lot! Everytime I come across some article about “following your passion” — whether in favor of it or against…

Loving Things

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“Thank you, bear! Good job!”

- me to Natasha’s stuffed bear
just before sending it off to the grandsons.

The Infinite Practice

Education discovers an increasing richness in the past, because it sees what is unfinished there. Training regards the past as finished and the future as to be finished. Education leads toward a continuing self-discovery; training leads toward a final self-definition.

Three Productivity-Producing Products

I talk a lot about various things I try out, and I don’t always follow up on how they work out. However, there are three things that I’ve been using that have really made a significant difference in the way I work, the things I accomplish, and more. I wanted to…

A Quick Decluttering Practice

I promise, I’m going to get to a practical tool for decluttering in this post. But first I’d like to continue to talk a little more about “slack.”

I really see it as “resilience” — the ability to avoid some shocks (such as paying the phone bill on…

Leaning into the Discomfort

I had something very uncomfortable happen to me on Monday.

I had been stressing, just a little, about our cel phone bill. I hadn’t really looked at it recently, wasn’t exactly sure if last month was past-due or not, and knew that it was going feel like…

The Unromance of Maturity

A while back I wrote a short story for an editor for an anthology. She liked the story, but she had one complaint: the anthology was supposed to be focused on romance, and there wasn’t enough of that between my main characters.