Consistently coming back to your goals is better than perfectionism

You don’t have to be perfect every day. It’s the consistently coming back to your work that matters. When we commit to a goal, we want to go all in. We swear that we’ll run every night after dinner. We buy a new planner and decide to put in two hours of uninterrupted writing after […]

How I Switched To Organic Cosmetics And Stuck With It For Six Years

There are five big lifestyle changes I’ve made in the last six years: Switching to organic cosmetics, becoming a minimalist, reducing my plastic waste, cooking vegan meals 80% of the time and buying my clothes second-hand. Those lifestyle changes didn’t feel limiting or took 239 kg of willpower, and yet when I look at them […]

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good

I found a quote today that really resonated with me. It’s from Brené Brown’s book “Daring Greatly”. I’ll just let the quote speak for itself: “I remind myself, “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” (Cribbed from Voltaire.) A twenty-minute walk that I do is better than the four-mile run that I don’t […]

I never thought I was a perfectionist

I recently read a fascinating book called “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”, written by a cognitive behavioral psychotherapist. One thing he said really resonated with me: “If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.” What he means is that you will never be able to live up to […]

The Beauty of a New Beginning

As I’m tyipng this early in the morning, I have a cup of strong black tea to my right and a bowl of cream puffs to my left. My desk looks like it’s just another ordinary day (minus the cream puffs, maybe), but if you were to look behind me you’d see a telltale mess […]

Tiny Mission: Leave things a little better than you found them

It sounds like such a platitude: “Leave things a little better than you found them”. The idea is to make sure that whether you’re at work or talking to a friend: You do something small to leave the situation a little better than it was when you got there. I do this when I remember. It always […]

The kind of productivity I crave

I crave the kind of productivity that makes me feel content at the end of the day. I crave a balance between focused work and time to be human; to meet friends, cook a meal and read a book. When I work, I want to … Be in the moment and focus on what I’m doing […]

When Setting Goals Stresses You Out

Goals usually fizzle out. By the end of the year, we don’t even remember them. What were your goals for 2017? I’ve never really had set goals and when I did, I didn’t know what to do with them once they were written down. The problem with goals is not just that we don’t achieve […]

Intentions For A New Year. But First, Celebrate What You’ve Done

In the thrill of starting a new year and the dutiful goal setting that can come with it, it’s easy to reach for things that are entirely absent in our lives right now: Going to the gym three times a week when you’ve worked out 4 times in the last three months Writing every day […]