by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Dec 9, 2015 | Business
So today I spent entirely too long obsessing over a cool time tracking tool to tell you how much your time really costs. It’s called Spend Your Days, and it manages to magically combine my obsessions with productivity, time management, and easy math that even I...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Dec 3, 2015 | Business
This week, I had a medical thing. Although it wasn’t terribly interesting, at the end of the day it did mean that I spent the better part of a week laid up in bed. “Bed” meant a few different things, including: lying in my own bed clacking away at...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 22, 2015 | Business
I recently told you about my baby daughter’s new activity, which we descriptively call the Yell and Run. Aside from getting me out of breath inappropriately in public places, it has been teaching me about where I need to be more me in my life as of late. The reality...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 14, 2015 | Business, Inspiration
Baby Lucia is getting big. And, in one of her “I’m a big girl now” activities, she is all about the running. But it’s not just any old running. It’s running while yelling. We call it the Yell and Run and it’s about as complex as it...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Aug 24, 2015 | Business
So there’s this quote, and it’s something like DO TWO THINGS HALFWAY AND FAIL AT BOTH. But it sounds better. Like most things, you can google it. (I didn’t.) The point being, I’ve been thinking about this concept a lot this month, as I struggle...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Aug 5, 2015 | Business
Recently, someone did something exceedingly generous for me. Not one of those “open the door when you’re limping” favors, but something beyond that. Way beyond that. And, as I lay in bed the night after said favor, my mind was racing with the various...