I like a good system. As I’ve mentioned before, I am an INFJ and we have a nasty habit of getting lost in the search for the perfect system – I fight against that all the time.
One real system-seeking situation for me is my To Do list. I’ve tried all kinds of systems, paper and [...]
All Hail The Whiteboard
Counterinuitive (one of my favourite words)
As a mom, I sometimes get my day off on the wrong track, and I try to juggle work and parenting at the exact same time, and I end up doing a half-assed job of both. I have this work sitting on the screen (or paper) in front of me and I can’t wrap my [...]
Why? That’s not a particularly useful question.
I have been reading and working through MJ Ryan’s This Year I Will… and I’ve gotten really into one aspect of her approach.
Ryan suggests that asking yourself why you do a particular self-sabotaging thing repeatedly is not always useful. Asking ‘Why?’ gets your left brain analyzing the problem but it won’t necessarily trigger any solutions. [...]
