Hello, day.

Hello, day. This is how I start the day. Among my morning practices, it’s not even slightly the weirdest. But probably the one I’ve stuck with for the longest period of time. Each morning I take one sheet of paper and write about seven things. And then I...

Setting it up.

Over the past few months I’ve been spending a huge portion of my time trying to set things up for Slightly Future Me so her day goes well and she feels cared for by me. It’s a pretty interesting practice. Last week I was on my vacation and things were...

Planning without planning.

There was a time (fine, whatever, most of my life) when I didn’t prepare for things. At all. I didn’t see the point. Thinking about whatever was approaching was stressful, and the dreaded doom of doom was going to happen anyway. Why bother. Avoidance...

Five is for the five year plan!*

I am not a planning sort of person. But when I first started my company, I read seven hundred and fifty million websites about writing business plans. And at least ten library books and back issues of a bunch of online noozletters. The majority of these expressed the...
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