Stop Doing Filler Work. No more busy work. No more putting things down on a list for the sole purpose of a dopamine hit for striking it off! Your brain rewards you for certain tasks. Purchase something online? Dopamine hit. Eat something not nourishing to your body? Dopamine hit. Cross something off your list? Dopamine hit. Have you heard that instead of keep…
Read moreKeeping your promises is one the most precious gift you can give yourself and those around you. When my children were little I read somewhere how important it was to keep your word to your children. That is a true struggle to change your automatic responses. "Mom, can we go to the park after lunch?" Automatically me: "Yes". Thunderstorm rolls…
Read moreI think the easiest places to begin are with your routines and meetings. Morning routine - do you read or watch the news? Cut that out. If you need to consume the news for particular topics set up Google Alerts. You can have Google scour the net for you on a particular topic and have it emailed to you daily. https://www.google.com/alerts do you force yoursel…
Read moreThis photograph is not relevant, but I thought it was beautiful anyhow. Productivity is and most likely will always be a hot topic. How can we get more done and faster? Let me list out ways that I have found to be more productive. 1. Do Less Well that sounds counterintuitive! I have found that I make ginormous lists with everything I am going to get done today, …
Read moreEveryone needs a little more llama. Everyone needs a little more cowbell . Everyone needs a little more misery . I was supposed to start a new challenge: jump rope 1000x daily for 1 week. I did it on Friday. Not a failure, just reordering things due to new challenges. So I will start on Friday, March 12th, 2021 a 1 week jump rope challenge, 2 week media …
Read more2020 has been a very difficult year for so many. So much loss in so many different forms. Loss of life. Loss of our definitions of our days. Loss of jobs. Loss of way of life. Loss of proms. Loss of graduations. Loss of our traditional celebrations that define us at a fundamental way. So far 2021 is no different. When we are in the struggle, it is a strug…
Read moreFor many of us, we are reaching the end of our ropes in quarantine. We've had it. It's causing us to be angry, short tempered, indulgent, and the list goes on. Yeah, we can sit around and bitch about it. It doesn't seem to help though, instead creating a more toxic environment that we wallow in as we sit in our own filth and the filth of those aroun…
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