It’s good to steal helpful tactics from anywhere you can find them.
So many of the interesting solutions I’ve come up with were adapted from other industries or disciplines for application in my own.
One example is the “couch to 5K” concept that gets beginning runners into action to the point at which they are able to run and walk continuously for long enough to complete a 5K race.
Read MoreMy first experience with procrastination and the terrible feelings it brings was in fourth grade. I was supposed to do a report on Leonardo da Vinci.
I don’t remember whether it was that night or the next morning when I suddenly remembered that I had this project to do, and panicked.
My mom let me stay home to complete the project with the understanding that this would be the last and only time I’d be allowed to do that.
Read MoreI have decided that the upcoming semester will be the last at The Little Middle School.
To bring the program to an end as smoothly as possible, I'll be headed down to Atlanta for a few months to work directly with the students and teachers. Covid has been really hard on everyone, and I'll be functioning as a relief pitcher. Or maybe the closer.
Read MoreWhen it comes to gardening, I’ve often had good intentions but failed at execution.
The tray of pansies stays on the porch until it’s too hot to plant them. The flowering vines that were supposed to decorate the back deck instead eat it alive (this kind of thing can easily happen in Georgia).
It’s the same old thing many of us face: We start with enthusiasm but not much of a plan, and then get distracted.
Read MoreHere we are at the end of 2020, and the Internet is flooded with people looking ahead to the brighter possibilities of 2021.
Of course, the division between the years is arbitrary. Though vaccines give us reason to be hopeful that the end of the pandemic is in sight, we are still very much in it. And we’ll still be in it when the calendar page flips to January. Some optimism is reasonable, but it’s delusional to imagine that there will be a drastic change in our circumstances from Friday forward.
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