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2.25: The Productivity Tool that Changed My Life
The thing is, there will always be something more that I could do, but the Must-Do Method reminds me that it’s not only okay, but smart and practical to do some things later. This tool helped me learn how to value things like self care and taking breaks, and it taught me how to set boundaries around my output and reevaluate what really matters to me most.
2.24: The Power of Personal Mantras and Affirmations
Mantras and affirmations work like lighthouses for me. They help me to ensure that I’m on the right path, guiding me in the direction I want to follow, even when I feel unsure or lost. This week’s blog post explores the differences and similarities between the two...
2.23: How to Cope with Comparison
Comparison feels like shit. It’s also something that is marketed to us daily under a capitalist system, and especially on places like social media. My research in productivity and personal development is rife with images of beautiful homes and bodies and gaggles of success stories–all things I could compare myself to very easily. And reader, sometimes I totally do. And then I feel icky.
I didn’t want to feel icky with comparison anymore, so I decided to address my own struggles with it by asking myself a lot of questions about what happens when I compare myself to others. You can think of this as a survey of sorts, where the goal is to get to the bottom of what triggers my comparison, how I currently act when comparing myself to others, and using that data to imagine a better way to cope with comparison. This blog post will walk you through my process and offer you a revised set of questions that you can use to identify and cope with your own experiences with comparison.
2.22: Intentional Tech Use
I am riding the "what's my intention" wave. I mentioned way back in my 1.48 post, "Social Media with Intention and Awareness," that I had limited my Instagram usage to an hour a day. I can say that I stick to that about 90% of the time. This small shift to my...
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.
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