We’re now down to the last couple of days in my month of “Rest.” If you’re new to the blog (Welcome!) you can find my Week 1 post here. I’d started off trying to turn July, which is also my birthday month, into a month of rest, making it an atypical month from the rest …
Welcome to another Installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Your possibilities are endless. Thing #2: All or Nothing is a very limited way of thinking – and it will get you a whole lot of nothing done to boot. Thing #3: Watch this space. In just under …
Prioritization. Flexibility. And Music. This past week was the third week in my month of “Rest.” And it was pretty busy. Sometimes like is like that. Things come up and knock heads with your carefully planned day. I used to find that pretty stressful – ok, that makes it sound like I don’t find it …
Welcome to another Installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: It’s not “All or Nothing.” It’s ok if you can’t DO THE THING for as long as you’d like (or think you should). Even five minutes of DOING THE THING is still DOING THE THING. That time …
Here we are, at the halfway point in my quest for rest this month and…I’m starting to think that I wouldn’t know what true rest was if I tripped over it. Ok that might not be exactly true, but it sure is a hard to come by thing. Part of it is the muscle memory …
Welcome to another Installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: I am *Never* more productive than when I am procrastinating starting a task I don’t want to do. Thing #2: Sometimes, you’ve just got to back yourself and take a chance. Thing #3: Being a vocalist is the …
If you’d read Last Week’s Post, (Thanks!) you’ll know that I intended to make this July a month of introspection and rest. Well here we are after one full week and let me tell you what I’ve learned so far. First, I was so focused on the idea of “Rest” that I hadn’t really defined …
Welcome to another Installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Technically, any day can be “Friday” provided you don’t go back into work until the following Monday. Thing #2: I’ll take 7 hours of good sleep over 8 hours of lousy sleep any day of the week. Quality, …
There are two times of the year when I get really introspective. I mean the mood can come on at any time really, but those two times of the year really flip that switch. The first is the New Year. For me, it’s natural to look back and reflect, and also to look forward and …