by thetendingyear | May 21, 2019 | Dissertation, Productivity, Project Management, Time Management
It’s about time I wrote this post. No pun intended! Pomodoro is a time management tool I’ve mentioned many time before in The Tending Year, but I thought it was high time to dedicate a whole post to it because I’ve been using it a hell of a lot to...
by thetendingyear | May 14, 2019 | Chronic Pain, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Values
Healing isn’t a math problem. Even though sometimes, with enough rationalizing, it can feel like there just has to be one right answer out there, if someone would just plug in the right numbers. This post is about the team of healers who help me manage my...
by thetendingyear | May 7, 2019 | Chronic Pain, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Time Management, Values, Workaholism
We rely on our resources to accomplish our goals. In order to learn how to better manage my personal resources, I spent a whole week documenting and analyzing my experience with specific resources (money, time, energy, focus, willpower, presence, and connection, to...
by thetendingyear | Apr 30, 2019 | Mindfulness, Personal Development, Values
It’s time to do a check in, tenderhearts. Did you pick a word or theme for 2019 in January? If you remember, way back in the very first post of the 2019, I identified my theme word for this year: garden. In that post, I wrote why this theme was the best one for...
by thetendingyear | Apr 23, 2019 | Personal Development, Project Management, Time Management, Values
I used to do this thing I called “libra cleaning.” It involved gathering up all of the mess in a room, throwing it in a closet or drawer, and then shutting the door to hide the disorder and feign a clean home. Looking back, I’m not sure that libra...
