I made a decision last year as I was writing up my 2023 best books list (and tv and movies) that I was going to at least write down the books that I had read each quarter so it wouldn't be such a slog at the end of the year. I missed the first quarter so I promised...
No more back outages in 2024! This was the bad goal I told to my personal trainer. It's not a bad goal because it's not what I want. It's a bad goal because I can't actually make that happen. When we talk about our SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable,...
I was completely a "new year new you" person for years. Each new year rolled around and this was finally going to be the year I was going to do things differently. I tried resolutions. I tried goals. I tried themes. I tried big. I tried small. But at the...
First, why is clarity so important? Clarity gives you a clear idea of what's important to you. Knowing that will let you know how to make decisions. It eases the prioritization of how you spend your time. You'll know when it's okay to change your priorities or when to...
So Covid sucks, obviously. I had been lucky to avoid it for as long as I did but this last uptick got me. And while it is definitely not how I wanted to spend the last ten or so days I'm a learn-from-your-experience kind of gal. So here are a few of the things...
How many conversations have you had where you start to talk about something and before you even finish someone is telling you what to do? We've all seen the tropes on tv of typically women wanting to vent and typically men wanting to fix it. So why do we all...
A while ago, when I was working one of my crazy contract jobs I finally made an appointment for my annual physical. You know how you wait in the room totally bored and impatient about the thousand of things you should be doing? So I was checking out all the...
One year, ages ago, a work friend of mine got me on board with doing a dry January. Sure why not? Turns out giving up alcohol after the holidays led to a little more sugar consumption than I wanted so the next year I did no alcohol and no sweets. Which then led...