Category: Notes

To Beat the Blues, Belt Out the Weird

coping by howlingLife chaos can overwhelm even the most balanced of beings. I’ve learned tons of weird coping strategies through the years:

My personal favorite is

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I Thought I was Active Until I Read This…

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I’m an active person. I kayak, do tai chi, hike, and in the warmer months I enjoy biking. But I also spend gobs of time on my duff working with the computer, driving kids around, writing, reading, etc.

Enter Travis Saunders‘  recent Scientific American article, “Can Sitting Too Much Kill You?”

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Two-Word Comebacks Against a Rude Inner Critic

I often use two-word comebacks as responses to the nastygrams my Inner Critic (IC)  hurls at me. I dont want to dignify it with more than two words. Better to just slap it away with a quick retort. Here are three of my most common:

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Banned Words

After reading Lake Superior University’s list of banned words, I’ve been trying to come up with a list of my own. Turns out there’s a lot more stuff to ban than just words:

  1. Jeans that reveal butts when seated or squatted.
  2. People advising about weight loss.
  3. Laugh tracks.
  4. Mucus.
  5. Celebrity without skill, talent, or honor.
  6. People who don’t like animals.
  7. Litter.
  8. Anyone who doesn’t think I’m fine.
  9. Dog poop. Add cat poop to that. Poop in general.

I’m sure I’ll think of many others.

How I Resurrected My Blog and Stuck With It: A Series

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I’m all about productivity, energy efficiency, and enjoying a life outside of work. Its what I do for a living. Two years ago, I created a blog along these lines and christened it, Your Productivity Sucks.

After a short burst of energy, Your Productivity Sucks slipped into the back forty of netherspace. Truth be told, blogging was maybe number 25 on my daily wanna-do list. My updating efforts grew feeble and I compensated by feeling guilty.

Blogging was maybe number 25 on my daily wanna-do list.

Last summer everything changed. Now I’m blogging with commitment, purpose and – gasp –enthusiasm.

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