I have really bad luck with doctors. I choose to believe that, because the other option is believing that the majority of doctors in the US are egotistical, arrogant assholes entirely lacking in compassion, and that is just too bleak for me. Last year, in the wake of some horrific side effects caused by the SSRI […]
Yesterday Basecamp went down. It was the most agonizing way to spend 36 minutes on a Monday morning. (I don’t use Basecamp for personal use, but guess where I do use it? The day job. Where I was trying to get a jump start on prioritizing and planning my week. And I couldn’t access anything. […]
Things I am sick of: people who brand themselves as a maverick, nonconfirmist, rebel, straight-shooter, (insert “edgy” adjective here)…and then use that as an excuse to do whatever the hell they want. Act first, ask questions later, not think about other peoples’ feelings or experiences, and any time they get called on their shit? Yo, […]
Late (which is sadly becoming something of a pattern – sleep/energy issues ahoy) but here’s the recap for February 2014: Biz What worked: Honestly, I didn’t do much biz-wise in February. I wanted to do more, and I did at least post more on the blog, but I just didn’t have as much time or […]
CoSchedule isn’t technically a productivity tool, but it’s still incredibly useful + time saving. Here’s the bullet points in case you don’t have time to watch the video: Price: $10/month Social media editorial calendar plugin for WordPress What that actually means: it lets you schedule social media updates, corresponding to a particular post, from within […]
Priorities. We all need them. But people have a really hard time setting them – we have so many things tugging at our attention and energy that it can be incredibly hard to figure out what’s worthwhile and what’s not. During the latest live round of Rock Your Systems, I taught the participants an exercise […]
I don’t know about you, but I never get all my planning done in the first week of January. Usually I take the whole month to plan, and this year? I want to make sure I’m building a solid foundation that takes into account everything (not just number-based business or income goals, like I have […]
I didn’t grow up knowing I was pretty. Which is weird, because I remember being told it. I remember hearing it from my family, and family friends, and occasionally a teacher or two here and there (in an appropriate way, not in a woah-creepy way). But even at a young age I had a tendency for self-deprecation, […]
(This is another repost, originally published in June 2013) I feel like I’ve been transported back to the fifties. On Facebook. At least three times in the last few months, I’ve seen some variant of this: “If men aren’t doing xyz it’s because the women in the relationship aren’t ALLOWING them to.” Or: “If your […]
Every now and then, a new article makes the round with the same narrative: Person writing it was diagnosed with OCD. Or ADD. Or anxiety, or depression…the list goes on. After deep, deep thought, they had an epiphany. Because of said epiphany, they decided not to take medication, made some minor lifestyle changes, but mostly […]