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1.37: Vision Boards
School has started. I’m working a new job. I’m dissertating. I’m feeling very motivated to start building new habits and boosting my mood, and I’ll be researching and practicing tools this month that will help me to achieve September’s blog theme: Live the Life You...
1.36: Must-Do Method
I learned a new productivity method last week that upped my efficiency, time management, and left me feeling positive and relaxed. I know it’s hard to imagine that a simple productivity tool could pack such a big punch, but the Must-Do Method really is that good. What...
1.35: Mind & Concept Maps
Way back when I was an English major in undergrad, I waited until my very last semester to satisfy my math requirement via a freshman-level “Intro to Logic” class. Although I anticipated that learning math (or was it philosophy?) would be a total snorefest, I found...
1.34: How to Feel Good Enough
Let’s get one thing straight: I already know that you are good enough. You probably think that I am good enough, too. I also bet that sometimes you don’t feel like you’re good enough, because I know sometimes I sure don’t. The self development realm is practically...
1.33: My Archival Research Fellowship
I spent last week in Los Angeles working with the Lisa Ben papers at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives. I was one of nine (out of 60!) applicants awarded a 2018 LGBTQ Research Fellowship, courtesy of the ONE Archives Foundation, Inc. Spending five days...
1.32: Priority Setting
The word “doozy” gets a bad reputation. We use it to emphasize the scope of things that tax our energy, as in Whoa, that 3-hour meeting was a doozy or That final exam was a doozy; I hope I did okay. But the actual definition for doozy is “something very good of its...
1.31: Emotional Agency
Ever get that feeling where you know you feel bad, but you aren’t exactly sure what might help you feel better? Wish you knew that the heck was going on, so you could try to have more control? Since I struggle with all of these things, I dedicated Week 31 of The...
1.30: Managing Energy Expenditure
If you follow The Tending Year on Instagram, you’ve like seen recent posts about spikes in my chronic pain. Since I’m focusing on intention this month, I set an intention to investigate why my pain was spiking at night in an attempt to prevent, lessen, or accommodate...
1.29: Monotasking vs. Task Switching
My focus for July is Intention. I’ve been practicing new habits and perspectives so I can bolster intentions that align with my values. One of those values is my fascination with productivity. I love researching it, practicing it, and blogging about it, but sometimes...
1.28: How to Receive and Release with Intention
If you remember back to Week 27, “How to Live with Intention Using Values + Presence,” intentions are states of being that we manifest and inhabit, often in line with our values. One of my biggest intentions for The Tending Year is to live a life filled with good. I...
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