Welcome to a special installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Why is it special, you ask? Because it is happening on February 29th – a day that only comes around about once every 4 years. Here are Five Things that come around every Four Years: Thing #1: The Men’s and Women’s Rugby World Cup. These events are …
I’ve often said that this blog is as much for me as it is for you. And there are times when I need to give myself reminders of things I’ve already said. That’s what this post is about. I sat down to draft this post – under the title: “Focused Work.” It was going to …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: It’s pretty easy to fall down the rabbit hole of Podcasts. I recently discovered that I’d done just that, and the audiobooks were starting to pile up, so I’ve got to cull some. Thing #2: Every …
It’s called Activation Energy. This is the energy it costs to start a reaction. Looking at it from a wider perspective, it’s the energy you spend to get anything going. Unsurprisingly, this cost isn’t static. One day, an activity might take a small amount of energy to get going. Another day, it might take much …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: By the time this goes live, I’m looking at snow, switching to rain, then freezing. While I can appreciate all three for their own aesthetic beauty. I can’t say I’m a fan of all three in …
At the beginning of the year, I made a change to the daily “To-Do” list. I started dividing it into two sections which I called: “Important and Urgent” and “Important but not Urgent.” This change has had some benefits, which I’d hoped for. It keeps me on track better than simply brain dumping onto the …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: It’s very tempting to focus on looking ahead (to weekends, vacations, etc.) and just burn through the day to get one step closer to that one thing, not really paying attention as the days roll past. …
Sidebar: This is not a post about Kate Elliott’s wonderful Sun Chronicles series, though you should definitely put it in your eyes or ears – you won’t be disappointed. Yesterday was the first day in just over two weeks or so that I actually saw the Sun. Here in my neck of the woods, we’d …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: February kind of caught me by surprise this year. Like I could see it coming, but it always seemed to be at the far-end of the trail, never getting closer, until it was right on me. …