BrenĂ© Brown asks this in her rapid-fire questions at the end of a podcast interview: What’s on your nightstand? I think it’s supposed to tell […]
Words Matter
I accidentally became DEI Committee Chair for the League of Women Voters of Door County last year. Tonight we put on an event we’ve been […]
Word of 2024: ONWARD
This is not the word I’ve been mulling over the past few weeks. After a year of Waves, I’ve been wanting something steadier. Grounded. Centered. […]
In Conclusion: The Word of 2023 WAVES
A year ago I picked the word waves. Lately, I’ve joked that it was a little too on the nose. Did I manifest the chaos […]
2024 Word of the Year Workshop
Yesterday, I did my fourth annual workshop for my coworkers on choosing a “Word of the Year”. I wrote a detailed blog on the workshop […]
Shoot to make it
The James Clear newsletter last week shared this thought at the end, submitted by a reader: “My dad and I love basketball. We used to […]
Nonviolent Communication
I’ve been rabbit-holing on microlearning content for work a few times in the past week. How do you provide bite-sized pieces of information that people […]
Psychological Safety Rabbit Hole
My normal writing window tonight got taken up preparing for a training I’m giving tomorrow for our managers at work. I didn’t have to spend […]
A Thought from James Clear
I subscribe to James Clear’s 3-2-1 newsletter that goes out every Thursday. He’s the author of Atomic Habits (a great book I first read in […]
Pomodoro App
I dusted off the old Pomodoro technique to get some work done today. That’s the productivity method where you set a timer for 25 minutes […]