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Winters’ Day In
Time to spill the tea. Wanna cuppa?
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Stories and Embers
My energy’s low, so instead of pondering life like I usually do, here’s a little round-up of some of my recent projects you might be interested in.
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Five Years
The question “do I want to be doing this five years from now?” is a very helpful rubric for deciding on how to spend our time now. I get to choose the path I take. So why do I make it so hard?
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Following Joy
I’m slowing down on even more things… including how I market my business. And you know what? I like it.
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Learning to Follow
Maybe the overwhelm is from taking on things that weren’t mine to bear?
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Some weeks, we crawl instead of walk
I felt slower than usual this week, but still ended up with some cool things for my readers and knitting customers. And I got to be social, too.
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This Train Track Goes Both Ways
Taking a moment to look back at how far I’ve come before looking to the immediate future again.
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Peaks and Valleys
When the blahs happen two weeks a month, it’s not just depression… Also, update on my slow productivity mission, what I did this week in my business (hint: knitting pattern update), and some sad news about my grandmother.
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Getting Serious about Rest
On the book Rest: Why you get more done when you work less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, and how it’s affecting my shift into slow productivity.
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Morning Lite
Part of my Slow Productivity switch has been changing my morning routine. I’m only a few days in, but it seems to be working so far…
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