Psychologist + Productivity Coach
I found a quote today that really resonated with me. It’s from Brené Brown’s book “Daring Greatly”. I’ll just let the quote speak for itself: “I remind myself, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” (Cribbed from Voltaire.) A twenty-minute walk that I do is better than the four-mile run that I don’t
I recently read a fascinating book called “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”, written by a cognitive behavioral psychotherapist. One thing he said really resonated with me: “If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.” What he means is that you will never be able to live up to
As I’m tyipng this early in the morning, I have a cup of strong black tea to my right and a bowl of cream puffs to my left. My desk looks like it’s just another ordinary day (minus the cream puffs, maybe), but if you were to look behind me you’d see a telltale mess
It sounds like such a platitude: “Leave things a little better than you found them”. The idea is to make sure that whether you’re at work or talking to a friend: You do something small to leave the situation a little better than it was when you got there. I do this when I remember. It always
I crave the kind of productivity that makes me feel content at the end of the day. I crave a balance between focused work and time to be human; to meet friends, cook a meal and read a book. When I work, I want to … Be in the moment and focus on what I’m doing
Goals usually fizzle out. By the end of the year, we don’t even remember them. What were your goals for 2017? I’ve never really had set goals and when I did, I didn’t know what to do with them once they were written down. The problem with goals is not just that we don’t achieve
In the thrill of starting a new year and the dutiful goal setting that can come with it, it’s easy to reach for things that are entirely absent in our lives right now: Going to the gym three times a week when you’ve worked out 4 times in the last three months Writing every day
I own two boxes of stuff I need to get rid of. They live in my closet, which is why I forgot about them for a long time. Recently though I felt that it was silly to be holding onto this stuff – that’s what I was doing by ignoring it. I didn’t want any