by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Aug 16, 2017 | Productivity
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...
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 | Jun 13, 2017 | Productivity
A couple years ago, I heard about a thing called Morning Pages. Julia Cameron is the brainchild and the concept is pretty simple: Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. *There is no wrong way to do...
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 | Feb 14, 2017 | Productivity
I’ve been thinking a lot about movement of late, because in some areas of my life it feels like I’m not seeing the progress I want to be making. I look at my annual goals list, for example, and I see a whole lot of nothing happening in a few areas of my life six weeks...