The rest of the country and parts of the world may be opening up, but yours truly is staying put. I have a kidney transplant, and therefore no immune system to speak of, so anything more than walking my dogs (while wearing a mask and practicing social distancing) is off my agenda until the transplant…
Category: Life
Making Lists of Lists…or, Herding Cats with ADD
I have lists of lists. Not because I want to, but because the entire space-time continuum will collapse if I don’t.
5 Things to do if You are Still Staying Home
Before we begin, let me just say, this is not meant to be a political post. In fact, it has almost nothing to do with the politics surrounding Covid-19 and questions of continuing to shelter-in-place or not. Science says we aren’t out of the woods with Covid-19 yet and probably won’t be for another two…
Confessions of a Planner Junkie: Why Planners Fail
Hi, my name is Cait, and I’m a planner addict. No, seriously, you name a planner, I have probably tried it. I’ve done Franklin Covey, Commit30, PassionPlanner, DayTimer, At-a-Glance, Filofax, and even various Kickstarters. That’s just scratching the surface, because I have an itch to be organized. That didn’t come out…quite…right, but you know what…
The Half-Full Glass is Just Fine
So, Kristen Lamb and I spent a lot of time last week talking about self-help (among other things, including podcasting, serial killers, and why the NSA doesn’t get better phone tap tech – we can hear the clicking!). As the daughter of a psychologist and a social worker, I am genetically predisposed to be twitchy…
Unproductive: Why the Productivity Industry is Killing us
Last week was one of *those* weeks. You know the ones I’m talking about. A Sisyphean series of tasks that kinda sorta moved forward but never really got finished. A black hole of productivity where effort went in, but nothing came out. Yeah…that kind of week. In my case, the causes of that kind of…