Monday Motivation: Good Habits

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Feeling much more upbeat this week. I think a little legitimate discontent was exactly what I needed to push me in the right direction.
I tend to do life in cycles. Right now, I’m moving into a fitness phase where I care again about being healthy, so I’m going to shift some of [...]

Monday Motivation: Capitalize on Existing Opportunities

The ebook is finally finished and up for sale! Whew.
I’m generally a very positive person, but last week’s demands just about killed my positivity. The Mac issues I mentioned turned out to be a crashed hard drive. There were definitely some things to be thankful for (that I had backups of almost everything; that the [...]

Monday Motivation: Reduce Project Load

I’m hoping against hope that it’s not going to be “one of those days.” It started out well, considering I’ve already gotten through most of the 150 emails (!) that came in over the weekend and it’s not even 8am yet, but then I wandered into the office (I’d been working on my laptop) and [...]

Monday Motivation: Ooh, Shiny!

I struggle with focus. I love the challenge of new things, but have a bad habit of taking on too many at a time, and the result can be very stressful.
Right now I have three major client projects in the works, I’m writing an ebook (due to my editor on Wednesday), and I’ve signed up [...]

Monday Motivation: Get Caught Up

Last week was sort of dully, vaguely unproductive. Nothing I can put my finger on, but I just didn’t make much forward progress. I’d really like to get this week off to a better start!
No overarching theme for this week, just a diverse bunch of things I’d like to move forward on.
Today’s to-do list has [...]

Monday Motivation: finish that site launch!

I’ve been puttering away at a new site, WordPress Theme Review, for months now. It was a case of too many dependencies: among other things, I didn’t want to launch it until my main site was done (it’s not), I had to create a plugin to add special features (did that), I needed to customize [...]

Monday Motivation: Let’s Get This Party Started!

I’ve long admired Wendy Piersall’s Monday Motivation concept, and starting this week, I’m going to jump in.
The concept is simple: public commitment (which I call “obligation”) is a powerful motivator. I can harness this power for good by telling you all (okay, since this is my first post, “you all” might be a rather small [...]