Rest is the New Hustle
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I’m back in action! Well mostly…and more slowly but I’m back.
Thank you for your patience while I disappeared from my blog and social media and basically the world to recuperate after my appendix burst.
Ever have one of those experiences where you know it’s changing your life — right as it’s happening?
But you’re just not totally clear on how it will alter you in the end?
I guess that happens with big life experiences like getting married and having kids. But turns out — it also happens when your health is on the line. Something that until this point, I’ve had no experience with.
I thought I had food poisoning at the end of January. But I’ve had food poisoning before and I’d never had such intense stomach pains with it. But I just figured it would go away.
It didn’t and I ended up in the emergency room with a ruptured appendix! Boy was that painful.
Apparently this doesn’t happen a lot anymore because people get to the hospital well before this tiny organ has a chance to explode. Read more
4 Ways To Free Up 1 Hour of Your Day
Do you wish you had an extra hour in your day? Some time to finally get to all those things at the bottom of your to-do list or start working on that personal project?
There’s no need to wish for longer days, instead you can just make better use of the time you have.
The first thing you need to do is stop making excuses. It’s easy to put something off, claiming you’re too busy to get around to it. If you feel that way it’s probably because you aren’t using your time efficiently.
I recently wrote a blog post on how being aware of how much time you spend on various tasks can help increase your efficiency. I like to use RescueTime.com as it tracks how much time I spend on websites and applications. This helps me to pin point my biggest ‘time-wasters’ which I can then cut down on, or eliminate completely in future. Read more
Marie Kondo Sparks Joy in Person
Paula with Marie
Who knew watching someone fold clothes could be so mesmerizing?
I sat with a packed audience at the 92nd Street Y in New York City on a Friday night as Marie Kondo folded oddly-shaped clothing carefully and slowly.
She’s the author of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing.” Her newest book and the reason for this gathering is called, “Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up.”
Watching her fold never got old. (I didn’t mean to rhyme there but I was just feeling that sentence and it’s true.) The whole room was in a collective trance — Marie had our full attention.
She folded up one side of a shirt and then the other and created a small origami-esque package again and again.
Everyone was fixated on the tiny woman, who was wearing a white top and skirt with black tights, work her magic.
It was like watching Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
A real craftsman at work. Read more