To-Do List Don’ts – Part 2
To-do lists can help ensure we are working on what matters most to us. A to-do list can also reduce the cognitive load in trying to keep track of too much in our brains. Research shows that just the act of writing something down that comes into your head can help reduce the mental energy…
To-Do List Don’ts – Part 1
A functional system to manage your projects and tasks can save you heartache, missed deadlines, and mental overwhelm. But here’s the key, it has to be functional. The best-laid plans and resolutions to finally use that to-do list app, put everything into your google tasks, or get yourself together often fall by the wayside faster than gym…
Deep Reset for a Midlife Renaissance – Part 1
I’m in the middle of a deep reset. This is a time in which I’m assessing my current practices, how I spend my time, where I focus, and deciding what habits and practices I want to keep or change. Having just finished my MBA and received tenure at work, it is a natural time to…
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How to fill the unforgiving minutes
How many times do we tell ourselves: I only have 5, 10, or 20 minutes free, I can’t get anything done? I frequently think about the lines from the poem If by Rudyard Kipling: If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith 60 seconds’ worth of distance run,Yours is the world and everything that’s in it,And…
How to (almost) never have a bad shift
Walking through the sliding glass doors at 10:55pm on a Monday, I found myself wondering if it would be a good shift or a bad shift. In Emergency Medicine a “good shift” has to strike many delicate balances. It can’t be too busy, but it also can’t be too Q-Word-That-Must-Not-Be-Named. It should have some high…
How to persevere
The end of COVID is in sight but there are still months to go. Maybe you have been struggling with getting things done while working from home and de facto homeschooling your kids. Perhaps you’re feeling cooped up after a year of going only from your home to the grocery store and work. Or, maybe…
The Joy Quest
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow. Helen Keller At the start of this year, I decided to go on a Joy Quest. Too often, we rush from one mental worry to the next and we don’t take the time to notice, experience, and create the joy that’s…
Time management strategies with a new baby
Each of the four times I brought home a new baby I found myself wondering: What did I used to do with all my free time!? As I adjusted to the new baseline of sleepless nights and a constant awareness of “who’s watching the baby?” I wondered at how it was always possible to insert a…
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How to do things when you just don’t want to
What is it for you – the big, daunting projects, or the boring, mundane tasks? Those are the two most common things that professionals I work with procrastinate on. Sometimes it’s because they can’t muster the motivation, other times, it’s because of the fear of failure, or an avoidance of the emotions the task will…
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New Year’s Revelations
It happens every year on January 1st. We join the ranks of the New Year’s Resolutioners who sign up at a gym, vow to stop eating sweets, promise to pay our bills on time, and cross our hearts that we’ll never procrastinate again. Then by February 20th, the gyms are back to their usual patronage,…
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