by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Feb 18, 2015 | Productivity
This guest post comes in via Molly Dunn, a pal from business school who is rocking the world. Importantly, Molly is rocking the world despite a diagnosis of clinical depression, and shares about the journey at her blog DepressionWhoNeedsIt. Although depression...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Feb 10, 2015 | Productivity
I’ve learned an immense amount about relaxation from my eight-month old baby, @lucia. And it’s not because Lucia is very good at relaxing. In fact, Lucia is absolutely terrible at relaxing. In her growing brain and body, she has two gears: Off, and Full...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jan 27, 2015 | Business, Productivity
Recently I’ve written about the wrong time of day for me to do my writing, and more generally about the importance of knowing when the best time of day is for you to do specific work. Today I want to expand on this idea to talk about how you know when it’s...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jan 19, 2015 | Productivity
Last week I told you the story of my try-hard-do-little day at the coffee shop, attempting to churn out some of my monthly writing and failing miserably. Despite the fact that I am generally a fast writer, and someone who can put pen to paper with particular speed,...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jan 7, 2015 | BanBusy, Goals, Productivity
As mentioned, every year I do a few things at the end of one year and the start of the new one. I review the year behind me. I set annual goals for the year ahead. And I choose a word of the year. (For more on why you need one, see this post explaining the...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jan 6, 2015 | BanBusy, Productivity
This week, I announced my word of the year. And it’s not a word at all. It’s a hashtag. #BanBusy Heh? Here’s the deal: I’m a digital gal. I live in a digital world, and walk in a world wide open to the interwebs. I instagram stalk people...