2.21: Battle Work Doldrums with Pomodoro
If you’re experiencing the doldrums of work, you might feel easily distracted or bored with (or even resentful towards) your work. You might find yourself sighing and holding your ennuied head in your hands when you sit down at your desk. If you feel hopeless and unsure how you’ll ever finish your paper, dissertation, grant proposal, graphic design, podcast editing, or other impossible work task, then check out this blog post and let me help you, fellow doldrums haver.
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2.21: Battle Work Doldrums with Pomodoro
If you’re experiencing the doldrums of work, you might feel easily distracted or bored with (or even resentful towards) your work. You might find yourself sighing and holding your ennuied head in your hands when you sit down at your desk. If you feel hopeless and unsure how you’ll ever finish your paper, dissertation, grant proposal, graphic design, podcast editing, or other impossible work task, then check out this blog post and let me help you, fellow doldrums haver.
2.20: On Healing
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 chronic...
2.19: How to Get the Most Out of Your Personal Resources
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...
2.18: Why You Should Theme Your Year Check In #1
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 my...
2.17: Put the Personal in Personal Organizing
Remember that personal organization is personal organization! Your home does not need to look like a minimalist barnscape advertised in Goop in order for you to be a successful, talented, beautiful, worthy person. That necessity being said, if you would like to shift your organization practice, here are some practical tips.
2.16: Make a Rest and Recharge Toolkit
Like all self development and productivity practices, resting and recharging are not one-size-fits-all actions, so your toolkit will work better if you personalize it to your strengths, weaknesses, preferences, and goals.
2.15 Achieve Your Dreams Brick by Brick
This method has quickly become one of my faves. In fact, I'd rate it up there alongside the Must-Do Method, which I use on the daily. I heard about the "brick by brick" method in motivational speaker Mel Robbins's Audible original, Take Control of Your Life. In this...
2.14: Quarterly Reflection
the purpose of a quarterly reflection is to check in on your short-term changes and as a result make short-term, actionable plans. This week’s post guides you through the process!
2.13: Give Yourself Permission
Prioritization is really just choosing to do one thing and not another. Sounds so simple when you put it that way, huh? Don't worry, my fellow recovering workaholics, mental illness-experiencers, and super busy pals: I of all people understand how daunting making a...
2.12: How to Revise (part 2)
Even more revision! Welcome to part two of my How to Revise series! Last week’s post, 2.11: How to Revise (part 1), taught you how to tailor a revision plan specific to who is evaluating your revision and based on what they (and you!) value. I also discussed the...
Looking for 2018 posts?
I’ll be transferring my 2018 blog posts from tumblr to WordPress sometime this year, but for now you can access the original posts by clicking the links below. It’ll take you to thetendingyear.tumblr.com, but the posts are the exact same ones you know and love!
1.52: Lessons from 2018
1.51: Reflection: Whys and Hows
1.50: 2018 Goals Check In
Monthly Reflection 11: November
1.49: How to Handle Aversive Tasks
1.48: Social Media with Intention and Awareness
1.47: What is Work and Why it Matters
1.46: What I Learned from Monitoring
Monthly Reflection 10: October
1.45: Have Purpose on Purpose
1.44: Choosing Yes, Choosing No
1.43: To Hold in the Hand: A Guide to Maintaining
1.42: How to Handle Overwhelm
1.41: Some is Better than None
Monthly Reflection 9: September
1.40: One-Inch Picture Frame
1.39: Ways to Handle a Bad Mood
1.38: Keeping a Dissertation Journal
1.37: Vision Boards
Monthly Reflection 8: August
1.36: Must-Do Method
1.35: Mind & Concept Maps
1.34: How to Feel Good Enough
1.33: My Archival Research Fellowship
1.32: Priority Setting
Monthly Reflection 7: July
1.31: Emotional Agency
1.30: Managing Energy Expenditure
1.29: Monotasking vs. Task Switching
1.28: How to Receive and Release with Intention
1.27: How to Live with Intention Using Values + Presence
Monthly Reflection 6: June
1.26: Top Five Tending Tips
1.25: Embracing the Gray Area
1.24: Regarding Self Care
1.23: Workaholic Tendancies
Monthly Reflection 5: May
1.22: Negative Self Talk
1.21: Perfectionism & Pain
1.20: How to Schedule
1.19: How to Plan
Monthly Reflection 4: April
1.18: Self-Validation
1.17: Movement
1.16: Enjoy the Process
1.15: Habits 101
Monthly Reflection 3: March
1.14: Focus
1.13: Perspective
1.12: Recovery
1.11: Dive Deep
1.10: Conscious Input and Output
Monthly Reflection 2: February
1.9: Abundance
1.8 Self-Sabotage
1.7: Self-Compassion: What It Is & How Do I Do It?
1.6: Changing the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Monthly Reflection 1: January
1.5: Mindful Production
1.4: Mindful Consumption
How I Got Clarity and Finally Turned it Over
1.3: Playing It By Ear
1.2: Three Keys to Abundance
1.1: Welcome to The Tending Year!