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July 23, 2020
An office switcheroo to help salvage pandemic productivity
I haven’t posted at all since the pandemic began. Like most of us, I have complicated feelings about many things. However, I’ll jump back in with something lighter: how I’ve adapted my physical workspace to our new life.
I used to have exclusive domain over my home office. This didn’t always feel like a blessing, as the office often got messier than the rest of the house. I tended to it last because it was “my room.” Common spaces took priority. But at the end of the day I alone worked there,...
July 15, 2020
Join me tonight for a virtual reading and discussion with The Ivy Bookshop!
Tonight I’ll be hosting, along with The Ivy Bookshop, a reading and discussion about my book Order from Chaos. I have a post for the event already on The ADHD Homestead, so I’ll direct y’all there to avoid duplication. Click on the image below for all the details!
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February 19, 2020
My newly ad-free online platform, almost five months in
I took my online platform ad-free almost five months ago to align my revenue streams more closely with my mission. My dislike for ads made them ineffective anyway. Between the number of ad categories I blocked and how I shoved them...
February 11, 2020
2020 goals (I should set them even if I forget them 😏)
A couple weeks ago I wrote about setting goals as an indie. We lack external accountability to set goals at all, let alone make them happen. This can leave us feeling hopeful at the beginning of the year and downtrodden at the end. I’ve been to this rodeo enough times to feel this keenly during New Year’s resolution season.
On the bright side, indies can ditch useless metrics. We don’t need to check boxes to demonstrate someone else’s idea of progress. Last year I met most of my goals without mu...
2020 goals (I should set them even if I forget them
A couple weeks ago I wrote about setting goals as an indie. We lack external accountability to set goals at all, let alone make them happen. This can leave us feeling hopeful at the beginning of the year and downtrodden at the end. I’ve been to this rodeo enough times to feel this keenly during New Year’s resolution season.
On the bright side, indies can ditch useless metrics. We don’t need to check boxes to demonstrate someone else’s idea of progress. Last year I met most of my goals without mu...
2020 goals (I should set them even if I forget them
A couple weeks ago I wrote about setting goals as an indie. We lack external accountability to set goals at all, let alone make them happen. This can leave us feeling hopeful at the beginning of the year and downtrodden at the end. I’ve been to this rodeo enough times to feel this keenly during New Year’s resolution season.
On the bright side, indies can ditch useless metrics. We don’t need to check boxes to demonstrate someone else’s idea of progress. Last year I met most of my goals without mu...
2020 goals (I should set them even if I forget them
A couple weeks ago I wrote about setting goals as an indie. We lack external accountability to set goals at all, let alone make them happen. This can leave us feeling hopeful at the beginning of the year and downtrodden at the end. I’ve been to this rodeo enough times to feel this keenly during New Year’s resolution season.
On the bright side, indies can ditch useless metrics. We don’t need to check boxes to demonstrate someone else’s idea of progress. Last year I met most of my goals without...
2020 goals (I should set them even if I forget them
A couple weeks ago I wrote about setting goals as an indie. We lack external accountability to set goals at all, let alone make them happen. This can leave us feeling hopeful at the beginning of the year and downtrodden at the end. I’ve been to this rodeo enough times to feel this keenly during New Year’s resolution season.
On the bright side, indies can ditch useless metrics. We don’t need to check boxes to demonstrate someone else’s idea of progress. Last year I met most of my goals without...
January 13, 2020
How much should I care about setting goals for my business?
How would I look if I said “I never set goals for my work?”
That’s not strictly true, but I have shied away from quantitative goals over the past several years. I used to set specific targets for every possible metric: social media followers, pageviews, blog posts per week. For my fiction work I set goals to finish a current manuscript or hit a target word count on a new one. I rarely met these goals and when I didn’t, I felt bad about myself.
Quantitative goals often rely on factors outside...
January 3, 2020
Why do people like me? And other questions to guide my writing platform
Psst: this post contains affiliate links because I mention a few books. Clicking on them will help support my writing but as you’ll see, I’m not exactly trying to sell anything here
