Oof, this one’s rough. But it’s *worth* it. I remember too clearly that heading-for-burnout mental state where everything felt urgent, everything felt critical, nothing felt like something I could afford to drop. I used to make records of my time, trying to justify (to who?) why I felt so exhausted: See! Look! No spare time, […]
Things that are bringing me joy this week: My seeds are growing, growing, and they are officially seedlings now instead. Realising that Monday is my best Get Stuff Done day, and Thursday is my best Positive Energy day. (A weirdly consistent pattern.) Planning a cover for a 2023 non-fiction release with the cover artist 🙂
Just a short musing. Something happened in my personal life last week that left me feeling – as my husband aptly supplied for me – discouraged. So I was contemplating the word in the shower, and it struck me that the opposite of discourage is encourage and both of them have the root word courage,
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Other much more expert people than I have had much to say on this topic, so I intend to keep this brief. But I just wanted to note that so far, in my experience, being brave has never let me down yet. Lonely and feeling nervous to reach out? Do it. There are so many
Okay. Back for realsies this time – in theory! Turns out that last year took more of a toll on me than I’d thought, and I spent about four weeks staring at the wall, the ceiling, my bookcase, the floor – you name it, if I could stare vacantly at it, I did, for four
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Almost two years ago to the day, I wrote the below post. Apparently I needed a reminder of its message, because the internet randomly spat it back up at me yesterday, and I just… I don’t know. I needed to hear it. You know? It’s okay to slow down. It’s okay to take time to
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I was trawling my archives the other day (because occasionally I check my stats for website views, and invariably someone has found a random article in the archives to read and I’ve no memory of what it is, so I click through to remind myself) and found the post below. I think, in this day
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A group of divers were out, well, diving, and stumbled (metaphorically, because stumbling while swimming is hard?) across a tiny lil octopus. Said octopussum had had a tiny lapse in judgement, and was attempting to use a plastic cup as a shell. The divers felt sorry for it, and spent a significant part of their
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Work is busy. Life is busy. Things are in the works but not yet public. Everything’s changing, and writing is just Not A Thing – which makes me sad, but there are still Plans, and as I said, things are in the works, just… not here yet. Thanks for being patient while I scrape my
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I’m back from two weeks away essentially without internet, and I need to talk about that. But first, I’ll do that thing that I ‘should’ do, which is announce that How To Create Cultures is now out and available everywhere in ebook – print release has stuck to the original date of the 17th, so
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