April 9, 2024
When you’re doing the work you love, you don’t need breaks. The work flows, it pours from your fingertips. Whether it involves meetings, discussions, or work. It flows. There is no need for breaks. But when you don’t enjoy the work, you might find you’re taking more breaks than normal – maybe because you’re bored, not happy, challenged or fulfilled – but you find yourself taking more breaks. And then nothing gets done.
April 7, 2024
The Editing Pen has no care for what it crosses out. It rips through your carefully meticulated words and strips away everything. It doesn’t care if it is red, blue, black, or green – it has the same job – cut out what doesn’t work. It doesn’t care what your investment was. It doesn’t matter how many parties you miss. It rips it apart until there is nothing left until all that is left is the simplication of your glorious idea and what it is mean to be. The editing pen does that work for you, as hard as it
March 30, 2024
Starting over, isn’t easy. No matter how long you put into the project, starting over is always met with an initial sigh. “Here we go again” “Back to square one” “I have to do it all over again.” Yes you do, but you are also there to do it all over again, you also get to start all over again, and you have the opportunity to begin again. Not everyone gets that, so revel in it.
March 25, 2024
Writing everything down makes any problem easier. I don’t know what our brains were designed for, but when it comes to writing down thoughts, ideas, concepts, blog ideas, stories, books, articles, plays, coding ideas, dilemmas, etc, etc. They improve 1000x once I write it down, it’s as though I’ve offloaded the thought of the problem to somewhere else, and now I start working on the problem at hand. (Also a great way to remember things).
March 23, 2024
Our footprints are bigger than they need to be. We have accounts all over the place now, we don’t even know what they are for anymore. How many times have you gone to a site for a new account and been told “there is already an account for this email”? You don’t need more and more accounts and products to get better. You need to focus on the ones you have, or switch to ones (and close your old ones) that make your life simpler. Shrink your footprint, make your steps lighter.
