Serendipity: The faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. Also, the fact or an instance of such a discovery ~ Oxford English Dictionary Supper is finished (eggplant and garbanzo beans), I have a phone conference call in half an hour, and I was planning to write this post about introverted writers and the …
Day five of writing for an hour before going online! Yesterday, I will admit, the hour was a struggle. What I wrote wasn’t very good. I didn’t really know where I was starting much less going. However, I kept writing. I also reminded myself a) that I’m new to this single-tasking thing, and b) I …
I was struck by a comment on yesterday’s post by Cindy: “My partner has been talking about his ‘book’ for over a year now and I don’t think he is past the outline. I know that he has told himself (and me) that he was going to do something like this before, but it hasn’t …
“We can choose to shift our collective dialogue about time as a lacking resource to a more powerful view of time as friend.” “Time as friend also means the death of multitasking.” ~ Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow Yesterday I wrote that my plan today was to write for an hour before going …
“Jason Womack, president of a workplace performance training company, defines success as being okay with what you haven’t done today.” ~ Christine Louise Hohlbaum, The Power of Slow I’m a morning person, always have been. Whether it’s from having grown up on a farm or a family trait, I am up before the sun—4:45 a.m. …