A Time for Action and A Time to Stop
The society we live in applauds action – getting things done. And yet that is not all there is to life. I recently had a BIG pause in much of my work – really since my father died last April. … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Productivity
Can You Nap Constructively?
Done right, naps can be a shrewd response to the trough and a valuable break. Naps, research shows, confer two key benefits: They improve cognitive performance and they boost mental and physical health. – Daniel Pink, When My book club is … Continue reading →
The Gift of Having No Purpose!
For past three weeks, I’ve been practicing “free-writing” for the first time in my life. I have never journaled or kept a diary (except for a brief, embarrassing phase as a teenager when I wrote about boys…), and never had … Continue reading →
How Do You Create Content When You Don’t Know What To Write?
I am feeling distracted this week. I don’t know what to write in my blog, yet I am committed to writing once a week. This is apparently a common experience with entrepreneurs and other professionals who want to create new … Continue reading →
Resistance to Ease
Do You Resist Ease? I confess. I do. I do so even though I am fully aware of the benefits of bringing more ease into my life; even though I know specific strategies that can help me to shift from … Continue reading →
Lighten Up! It’s Good for You and It’s Good For Business
The other day a friend, who’s also an entrepreneur, and I were chatting, both feeling a little down and stuck on our own work projects. As we chatted we started making silly suggestions to each other with ideas for each … Continue reading →
Stop the Busy-ness and Be More Productive Part 3 Less is the New More
In our busy society, we are lead to believe that only by doing more, and more, and more, by pushing ourselves to the absolute limit, will we achieve “success.” The truth is, less is sometimes “more.” It can be better … Continue reading →
Stop the Busy-ness and Be More Productive Part 2 Crazy Busy? Or a Life That’s Full and Interesting?
In my latest musings on “busy-ness” and productivity, I’ve been thinking about how we, well, think about being busy. There seems to be a growing tendency to “glorify” being busy in a way that emphasizes not only how “productive” we … Continue reading →