Category: Mindful Living, Motivation, and Goals
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About Walls
This has been the slowest most frustrating summer–ever. Each day feels far too long and yet nothing really gets done. Things that do manage to get done don’t stay done for long. Don’t get me started on how I feel about the laundry or the wicked carnival ride of perpetual feeding and kitchen cleaning. I’m…
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Too Many Goals, a Cautionary Tale
As an ambitious person, I tend to go overboard when it comes to setting goals. A good goal should force you to stretch yourself to reach, but still be doable. They require real effort. This is a good thing. Reaching for a goal means that even when I don’t complete it in its entirety, I…
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Moving Forward Slowly is Still Moving Forward
We all remember the story of the tortoise and hare. They both had the goal of crossing the finish line but the tortoise won because he simply kept moving while the hare stopped and goofed off, believing that he could make up for lost time later. Lately my own work has felt a lot like…
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A Different Kind of Tired
I know you’ve felt it, heck, you might be feeling it right now. There are different flavors of being tired. The one most associated with the word tired is that fatigue that results from lack of sleep or doing too much. If your stress levels have been like mine, you probably have had bouts of…
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To Become a Master, You Must Apprentice First
The process of learning hasn’t changed, like ever. You must decide what you want to know and either find someone who knows how to do it, or find a book written by someone who knows how to do it. Today, you might add looking up a video of someone who knows how to do it.…
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My New Favorite Thing: Calm Stories
There’s something inherently soothing about listening to a story. It brings back memories of comfortable evenings curled up on a couch and having someone read to me, or listening to tales spun around a campfire under the glittering stars. Lately, I’ve been indulging in audiobooks as an escape from the mundane. It makes doing housework…
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Be The Least Interesting Person at the Table
The other day I stumbled on a phrase that caught in my brain and has refused to let go. Be the least interesting person at the table At first it sounds horrible. I mean, who wants to hang out with a boring person? But as I peeled back the different layers, a truth started to…
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One Hundred Hours to Success
If you are like the millions like me right now, you’re stuck at home far more than you’ve ever been before. Many of us are finding we have leagues more time on our hands than we know what to do with. It’s an uncomfortable position to be in. Those who find you have less time…
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The Canyon Between Two Mountains
Utah is home to some of the most dramatic landscapes in the world. From barren deserts to looming granite mountains that scratch the sky, from the majesty that is Arches National Park to the bizarre formations of Goblin valley. During the stay at home order, my family has been doing more exploring of the wild…
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Introverts Guide to Being Stuck Home with all the Family
There’s been an unexpected complication to all this social distancing and working from home. Whereas last week I covered how all you extroverts might find ways to survive being away from groups of people, this week I realized us introverts might be struggling as well. Suddenly, that time we used to have to ourselves is…
Jodi L. Milner, Author 