Making it happen

For the past few months, I’ve been the lucky beneficiary of Jen Hofmann’s smartness and goodwill in the super-secret beta version of her Inspired Home Office Community. (Don’t be jealous! It will open to everyone in August.) This morning, getting ready for our monthly planning call, I was casting around in an old notebook looking [...]

I want to share some places I’ve been lately and the people I’ve been talking to there. I was interviewed! It was my complete delight to be interviewed by my friend Karen Caterson, of Square-Peg People. You can read the interview here. Karen is a hoot, and her website is a welcoming home for all [...]

I have cleaning on my mind. My mother’s coming to visit. In light of her soon-arrival, I’m seeing my place with different eyes than I’ve seen it in a while. The last couple boxes that I never unpacked after moving in last fall and that gradually faded into the general scenery are once again glaringly [...]

I wrote a note to a friend on Twitter about getting to work: “Now to Amnaland, where the sovereign of the realm has a ton of things for me to do.” This concept of being the Sovereign is an obsession right now. Since taking Hiro’s course, I remind myself whenever I remember to inhabit my [...]

Today’s dispatch comes to you as I’m thinking about a conversation with a client a few days ago. She was writing (in her head, but not yet in an actual way) a giant, enormous policy-type paper for school. The kind that has tons of citations to lots of other dense texts, and can’t be totally [...]

The particular brand of ass-kickery I’m talking about here is when the obstacles and annoyances and demands mount up tag-team style, and require all your energy, and all the stuff you’d rather be doing goes on the extreme back burner while you put out life’s unexpected fires. For a time, you slay dragons valiantly. You [...]