Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: Success is the diploma. Failure is the classroom. Thing #2: Sometimes, despite all your planning, you’ve just got to take the day as it comes at you. Thing #3: The Women’s Six Nations Championship kicks off …
Can we talk about social media for a moment? Lately – ok, it can be argued that this has been going on for a long time, but I’ve felt a shift in myself and maybe you have too – social media (certain sites anyway) has become the place I’d go when I want to get …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: If you find something cool that brings you joy, tell someone about it. Thing #2: If you’re going to do something. Do it. This is time you won’t get back so don’t waste it on half-assery. …
Roadwolf. Girish and the Chronicles If those two lines sound a little (or a lot) like band names, you’d be right. Now you may be asking yourself, “What do those two bands have in common?” Well let me tell you. Before Thursday, I had *Zero* idea that they even existed, and both are bands that …
Welcome to another installment of Five-Thing Thursday! Here are Five Things that I want you to know: Thing #1: It’s early, but the Spring Peepers are Peeping! That’s once. Local folklore holds that when you hear them for the third time, Spring has arrived. Thing #2: On a related note, I’m really ready for Spring. …
March: In like a Lion, out like a lamb I’m sure you’ve heard that saying before. Funnily enough, this and “April showers, bring May flowers” are the only two sayings around the months that I can remember with any kind of ease. I say funny, because you’d think that if we’d come up with two, …
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 …