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How To Make Free-Time Productive
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how to make my “free-time” more productive. I’m a huge advocate for downtime. I know, I’m sure for some of you it might sound painful. But, look at it this way: Free-time can be more than vegging out. Free-time can be a way to...
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The Slow Year [My Word of the Year is…]
“Is next week tonight?” Lucia asked, eager to replicate the midnight fireworks display of Christmas Eve (I told her it would again happen on New Year’s Eve -- next week). “Nope.” I said. “Tonight is tonight.” And that’s as much of a metaphor as...
On Giving Tuesday, Give Girls an Education
Is it crazy to say GivingTuesday is one of my favorite days of the year? Then let me be crazy. This year, I'm super excited to share a bit about what World Vision, a great organization I care about immensely, is doing in Zambia. If you know anything about my story, I...
Why Success Is Not a Dirty Word
A few years ago a popular blogger and friend Shauna Niequist wrote an article called Stop Instagramming Your Perfect Life. It went viral because it resonated with us all. A few weeks ago, I wrote you a newsletter entitled, Everybody’s Off Living their Perfect Life and...
How I Started Meditating, Made Meditating a Habit, and Finally Stopped Whining and Saying I Would
This is the day I tell you why I love meditating and why it's helping me be a better me. If this sounds snooze-worthy, then perhaps you ain't ready to be pounded over the head with this message of Zen quite yet. If it sounds at all interesting, read on. I just may...
Why You Need a Digital Sabbath
Do you feel harried and burnt out? Are you burning the candle at both ends? Do you arrive at Monday morning unable, for the life of you, to remember any resting you did over the weekend? If you have a life, and it's a busy one, the best thing you can do is to take a...
My House
This is our (new!) home on a little lake in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We're outside the city, in case the ducks gave it away. Additionally, if you're wondering how our 1-year-old @lucia handles all this, suffice it to say that our architect-in-residence (my husband)...
The Do Less Method
For years, people have asked me how I get so much done. I sleep more than anyone I know, I read 200 books a year, I have a healthy relationship obsession with a certain network called Bravo, I travel 100,000+ miles a year, I work hard in my career, I write books, and...
Popular Posts
Here is a list of some of my most popular posts of all time. I have roughly grouped them into categories. Roughly. Enjoy! (Or not. Either way, I recommend supplementing your reading experience with kombucha.) How I Read 200 Books a Year Why I Live-Tweeted My...
Should You Pay for Blog Hosting?
When starting a blog, one of the first questions you'll need to answer is where you want to host your blog. There are two main options for hosting: Free (through a third-party like blogger.com) Paid (called "self-hosting" - this happens on your own .com domain name) I...
How to Start a Blog
{Have you checked out the free 7-day Start Your Blog Challenge? Sign up here. Want a free PDF ebook of these instructions? Go here. Starting a blog is one of the very best things that ever happened to me, and I love to share with folks why blogging is a great...
My Books
I've written some books. Some (five six) are published traditionally, some (more) are not. Some are ebooks, some are not. Some are long, some are not long. Here are some of 'em: Twitter for Good: Change the World One Tweet at a Time Hope Runs: An American...
Favorite Things
This is a list of my favorite living things. In no particular order. Rooibos Tea Jeopardy Sylvia Plath Cheddar Cheese House Hunters International Limes Cardigan Sweaters Boots (tall, preferably) Christmas Gelato Excel Spreadsheets Mexican Food Berries Scarves F. Scott...
Do You Need a Decision Day?
As I write this post, I'm at the my office, waiting for my husband and daughter to pick me up to go grocery shopping. This is a pretty obvious ending to the kind of day I like to call a "Decision Day". Every couple of weeks I have a good decision day, and it's a...
We may lose and we may win though we will never be here again…
Shortly after Jose’s father passed away, we were dancing in the living room before dinner. Jose, Me, and Lucia, with her favorite song playing loud on the speakers. The Eagles’ Take it Easy is a pretty good song to live by, if that one line that I love with all my...