by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jul 10, 2017 | Business, Productivity
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...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jun 30, 2017 | Business, Productivity
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...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | May 24, 2017 | Business
With tons of little kids in the house these days (my own, typically, although occasionally others drop by to join in on the circus), I’m now doing a lot of my work in a co-working space. This has been a radical change in my work life, and one I’m embracing so far....
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | May 10, 2017 | Business, Productivity
Recently there’s been a revolution of sorts around the word “hustle”. Long the mantra of entrepreneurs, “hustle” has started to get a bad rap, and some folks have started waving a big white flag calling for a cease and desist. I’m considering throwing my hat into the...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Apr 27, 2017 | Business
Hello from an increasingly autumnal Southern hemisphere. In a few days, I’ll be flying up North. North being a place I haven’t been in a year, because, amazingly, I haven’t been on a PLANE in a whole entire YEAR. (There is a lot of capitalization in that sentence.)...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 12, 2016 | Business
This weekend, I had the bizarre impulse to text my two year old to tell her something. Although it would be an effective way to communicate important updates (“Emma’s mom is picking you up at preschool!”), I clearly don’t want to rush my daughter’s childhood. I know...