Blog entries for Valerie Love

Busyness Does Not Equal Productivity

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gain, delivering missed papers. That night, the cycle started all over again. Add to that a husband and two small kids and you begin to get a fuller picture of what my life was like.

Seven days per week, 365 days per year, we kept up that schedule.

What about vacations you ask. Ha! What vacations?

After total burnout and a bout with depression, I asked a few serious and personally important questions: is there a better way? Is there a way to do what needs to be done with [...]

On A Good Day, Motivation Lasts About 5 Minutes

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on. The big 'poof' has an important job: to get the fire started. Then the 'poof' vanishes, just as quickly as it came. It was great while it lasted.

When the poof vanishes, a fire remains. Now, the charcoal is engaged. It is set on fire and can continue to burn for hours. No one would attempt to burn lighter fluid for hours; it's impractical and dangerous. Knowing the nature of lighter fluid makes it easy to apply it where it's needed, with care and attention.

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Calm in the Storm

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2. Clear your space. I'm intrigued by piles. Some folks have piles of stuff and they navigate through them fairly well. Others get paralyzed by piles and can't focus in their presence. Either way, clear a reasonable space for yourself to work in. Then, only introduce into the cleared space what you are working on at the present moment. Nothing else!

3. Your full presence is requested--no multi-tasking allowed. I know this might be a hard one for those of us who are accus [...]