One of this things I’ve learned from last year’s sabbatical is the need to take the reins. I knew this when I started the sabbatical, actually – that I was letting my business drive me, instead of the other way around. I spent the year trying to figure out how to make it work, and more often than not, I cam up blank. it’s an odd feeling – floundering. Which is how I often feel....
read more ›Yesterday, I posted a lengthy intro in my process of organization. I went a little into how I came to the conclusions I did about the subject, and why the articles/books/etc. I found didn’t seem to help me much. In today’s post, I’m going to tell you what I did with those conclusions. It’s actually pretty simple: I had a lot of stuff I needed to get organized. I wanted a simple system that would...
read more ›One of my big failures is my organizational skills. Back when I started my sabbatical (and all during it) it was something mentioned a lot: how I wanted to improve that aspect of my life. For the entire year, I would read every blog post I could find on how to get organized; how to become zen-like in the organizational system, how good it was if I were, ways to manage and/or accomplish it, even...
read more ›I think every “renewal process” goes through this (at least, I hope so…), where the renewer believes they have it all figured out, and before they even get started, they run into some kind of epiphany, and they get set back to square one. The thing is, there’s a difference between getting sent back to square one because of a setback, and being sent back because you somehow saw that clear line of vision for...
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