by thetendingyear | Dec 30, 2019 | Habit formation, Personal Development, Productivity, Project Management, Slow Living, Time Management, Values, Workaholism
This is my last blog post of 2019! To celebrate the occasion, I decided to do a Q&A. I invited questions around all things productivity, personal development, and slow living, and I got some wonderfully insightful submissions. Below, I share my personal thoughts...
by thetendingyear | Dec 9, 2019 | Habit formation, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Productivity, Slow Living, Time Management, Values, Workaholism
I discussed the importance of reflection last week, and this week I’m walking my talk by sharing the top lessons I learned from writing The Tending Year in 2019. This post is inspired by a similar post last year, aptly called “Lessons from 2018,” where I reviewed my...
by thetendingyear | Dec 2, 2019 | Mindfulness, Personal Development, Slow Living, Values, Writing
Last December, I wrote a whole blog post called “Reflection: Whys and Hows,” where I broke down the practice of doing an end-of-year reflection and shared the journal prompts I use at the end of each year. For this year’s end-of-year reflection post, I’d like to...
by thetendingyear | Nov 25, 2019 | Habit formation, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Values
This is my last post for my Self-Esteem November, and although I don’t have a foolproof “Three Steps to Always Feel Awesome About Yourself” to show for it, I am sharing a question that I find helps guide me back to higher self-esteem when I falter: what happens when I...
by thetendingyear | Nov 18, 2019 | Habit formation, Mindfulness, Productivity, Project Management, Values, Workaholism
When I say “I’m proud of myself!” I feel incredible. More often than not, feeling proud of myself is linked to checking off my to-do list. While I’ve discussed at length the benefits I’ve found from using the Must-Do Method to differentiate potential to-do tasks from...
by thetendingyear | Oct 21, 2019 | Habit formation, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Values
My yoga instructor recently told me that doing a particular series of stretches at stages of my menstrual cycle would help to alleviate pressure and pain. It’s the kind of thing that helps when you do it religiously, she said. I agreed to make it a priority, because I...
