I’m breathing again, having just launched our website project this past week. Everything was set to go live early in the week – launch campaign emails, final website tweaks, coordination with the team, announcements to be sent, facebook posts, advance tweets. I woke up on Wednesday morning grinning from ear to ear – the first… Continue Reading
I’ll be honest, My face hurts. It might be from the lack of sleep, or the fact that my face is currently crushed against a table in a coffeeshop, where I’ve inadvertendly placed my head down for a quick snooze, and now I’m covered in drool and blinking rapidly trying to regain a sense of… Continue Reading
Don’t stay late. Go home early. Do less. Seriously, take most of the things off of your to do list. Here are some words to live by, when hiring and managing people: “I’m more impressed by the person who can get it done in 6 hours – and go home and rest – than the person who… Continue Reading
“Devoid of the clutter of noise, we are nothing more or less than in existence; we are because we are and the universe is because it is. Engulfed in simple silence and nothing, the mind is quiet, the heart is open, and the Soul becomes clairvoyant; this is the bliss of nothingness.” – May 2010, The… Continue Reading
Commitment is key. Commitment is everything. Commitment means “I say yes,” and “I’ll do this,” and, more importantly, it says “I know what I want.” When you commit to something, you say yes. You make priorities. And by making priorities, you also say no. You say no to things that don’t help you reach your… Continue Reading
I am the worst offender of this. I’m so rushed doing one thing, thinking about the next thing, that I forget what it’s like to just BE in the moment. I have scheduled time to tightly and packed my life so fully, that sometimes I try to swim faster just to get out of the… Continue Reading
There is no substitute for good sleep. Just get into bed. Stop doing what you’re doing. even if you don’t feel tired, get into bed early. Tomorrow will be better for it. Today will be better for it. Now will be better for it. Even if you read for a bit, chances are you’ll go… Continue Reading
I’ll admit, I fail at this a lot. But each time I come back to this lesson, I’m reminded how powerful it is. Don’t do ten things at once. Work on one thing at a time. Or two. But never more than two. In a well-known graph about productivity and multi-tasking (from a 1990′s Harvard… Continue Reading
The spaces where we do our work are important. What spaces are conducive to good work? Do you work from home, in an office, in an open studio, in a coffee shop? Where do you get your work done? Look around the space you’re in, right now. What does it help you do? What behaviors… Continue Reading
What will you do first? First things First, my dad always says. What is the first thing you did today? Check email? Work on the most important thing, or the least important thing? When you get to the end of the day, what do you regret not doing? Less means maybe only doing 1 thing… Continue Reading