Month: July 2017

My email quizzes me daily…

… and I’m not taking about the latest personality quiz. A while back I found a little gmail add on that’s just fantastic. It’s called boomerang, and it does just that.  You can say “send this back to me” and fill in the blank for when.  I put all my reminders into it too so I have one system for alerting…

Expectations have to change too

When making changes to how we do things, sometimes the net effect feels wrong and so we implicitly assume it’s wrong, and won’t work, and we abandon change that could’ve been for the better. For example, maybe you’re used to revising emails four or five times to make them “perfect.”  Nevermind it takes you twenty minutes–no joke–to compose a simple…

Pick up palĀ 

Bad things happen, for example dropping a birthday cake that you just spent 2 hours  crafting.  If you’re another person in the room, step up and offer to bake the next cake, or offer to go out and buy a cake, or just clean up the mess while they get started on the next cake. It’s amazing how nice it…