About ten years ago, I read a piece of advice that has definitely increased my productivity: don’t listen to music with lyrics. It’s fun to rock out sometimes when I’m doing something that doesn’t require serious concentration (like checking email), but I find that if I listen to music with lyrics I end up getting […]
5 Things I’m Not Going to Do Today
A few days before the beginning of the Fall semester, Jason Womack posted a prompt on Facebook that popped up just as I was about to close it. He asked, “What five things are you NOT going to do today?” Here were my responses: Respond to that thing that just came across my Facebook feed. Someone […]
Subscribe And Save
We use Amazon Subscribe and Save for a bunch of different things. It’s nice to know that there’s going to be a shipment of paper towels, coffee, almonds, and other stuff pretty regularly. This reduces the amount of stuff we have to worry about. Here’s what we subscribe to:
Travel Habits
Jeanne Hoffman (Le Chic Geek) has a neat post on her travel habits here. I try and fail to develop routines–at the suggestion of my friend and coach Jason Womack, I used to write where I was and what I was doing on the bathroom mirror with an expo marker every time I stayed in […]
Sometimes It Pays to Pay for First Class
A funny thing happened on the way to Asana. As I’ve been learning the program and working with my assistant Leanne, I’ve dropped a few things that haven’t found their way into my field of vision when they should have. To use one example, I learned late on a Friday that I needed to have […]