Weekly Debrief – 11/10/24
My kids had Friday off from school, which aligned perfectly with the needs of a couple from our church who were moving from an apartment on the third floor to a home on the ground level. If my boys had a choice, they would have preferred to sleep in and play video games, but in […]
How to Build an Interactions Calendar in Notion
How effective are you at remembering things people tell you? If you’re like me, some things slip through the cracks. When I first started using Notion, I would add important things people shared with me to my Daily Log. That didn’t give me an easy way to look back on interactions with people to refresh […]
I’m In A Notion Slump!
If your year has gone like mine, it started out pretty fantastic with an almost unlimited amount of motivation. It’s a new decade and a perfect time to hit the ground running. Now that we are well into the year, some of that excitement has worn off and I have recently found myself in a […]
How to Make Time to Be Creative While Still Being Productive
There are a lot of misconceptions about the creative process that people have. Those who appear to be more creative are seen as just being more creative than others. I believe that someone is more creative because have the ability to separate creativity from getting things done. Most people know that constraints such as time […]
Squirrel!
I am easily distracted. There have been times I self-diagnosed ADD. The problem is that we live in a world with no shortage of distractions. There is more than just something for everybody, there are dozens of somethings. To make it worse, I love technology. You and I both know that the tech world moves fast […]
30 Days at a Standing Desk
Exactly a month ago I posted this Tweet: Many of the fitness blogs I read were talking about how unhealthy it is to sit at a desk all day long. Since I started designing websites full time back in 2005 I have spent the larger portion of my day in a chair behind my desk. […]