For us as moms deep work can be incredibly elusive, but I'm committed to finding a way to carve out time for meaningful, creative activities. I finally finished reading Deep Work, by Cal Newport, and while his paradigm is that of a male professor and he talks in terms of being an office knowledge ...
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The Key to Expanding to Your Full Potential
An Introduction to your Upper Limit and your Zone of GeniusA partial summary of The Big Leap, by Gay Hendricks
How do you celebrate a big win, or a perfect moment? What do you do when you are in one of those precious mountaintop experiences? What we tend to do in the moment is to sabotage it. ...
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A lesson from quantum physics
So in the midst of re-reading The Power of Intention, by Wayne Dyer, with my book club, I remembered his reference to The Field, and started reading it a week ago. What Lynne McTaggart does in this book is provide a great introduction and summary of the new discoveries in science around quantum ...
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My Road Less Traveled
Blue Ridge Mountains
I went to public school K-12, got straight A's, was the typical teacher's pet, loved learning and generally enjoyed school. I grew up in a caring Christian home, went to church every Sunday, volunteered, went on mission's trips, and won awards in bible quizzing. I went on ...
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Finding time to get in the zone
If you run a business or just a household, or both, but also have some creative work that you do regularly that requires getting in the 'zone' I think you'll appreciate this Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule article by Paul Graham that I discovered this week (it was in Amy Lynn Andrew's ...
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