A few thoughts on happies in my life lately.... 1. A couple months ago, I was super bummed because I had torn our apartment apart and couldn't find my grad school copy of Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature. It had all my notes, my lovingly dog-eared pages... I was more bummed than I thought … Continue reading At the Moment … little happies
A friend recently posted on Instagram a list of her favorite books from 2019. (Or, as she so awesomely put it, "the books I couldn't shut up about.") While several new-to-me titles intrigued me, there was one I went out and purchased right away: Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy … Continue reading Digital decluttering
I love fresh starts. New years, new months, new opportunities. Newness gets my engine revved, gets me all sorts of energized. New intense workout program? Gimme. New idea? Let me read 10 books on it. New friend? LET ME OVERWHELM YOU WITH MY ENTHUSIASTIC INVITATIONS AND OVERSHARING. While I'm not one to expect a lot … Continue reading My 2020 goals
Workin' on them boulder shoulders! Goodness, it's been a hot minute since I've lifted weights. I've been doing Insanity 4-5 times a week and running 9 miles every Sunday, so I'm moving and challenging my body, but now that I'm no longer working on campus it's hard to get to the Rec Center consistently. I've … Continue reading In-Between Thoughts 11/20/19 — New reading and rereading
I was taking a bath when I read about the Anchoring Effect. (I'm basically Archimedes.) It hit me so hard I actually stopped reading, put my book on the floor, and stared into my Rosemary-Mint scented bubbles for a long time. Holy crap. I've been doing this wrong since I started fundraising. My failure to … Continue reading Your Brain on Philanthropy: Anchoring Effect
This summer was weird and wonderful in its own ways. Kind of hard, but good?! I'm still processing some of it. I have some big decisions to make in my life that are scary because they feel final (though it doesn't have to be final, but of course my brain immediately goes to most extreme … Continue reading The best things I read in summer 2019
Part II of Jana's tales of "OMG I READ THE MOST TRANSFORMATIVE AND LIFE-CHALLENGING BOOKS WHILE ON OUR PARADISE VACATION." A book about surviving emotional and psychological faceplants, a novel about the Holocaust, a book about how to avoid psychological and ecological disaster, and a book about murder. The only book I didn't get to … Continue reading How to avoid psychological and environmental collapse, by Erich Fromm
As I mentioned in my previous post, I had a rather miraculously wonderful bout of reading on vacation. It was both the worst and best time to read books that forced my self-reflection. On one hand, I didn't have the constant busyness of life to distract and interrupt introspection! Yay, insights! ... on the other, … Continue reading Stories, boundaries, and compassion: thoughts on Rising Strong by Brené Brown
The last couple months have been strangely suffocating. My chest has been tight and my heart rate elevated off and on. It's been purely psychological -- I'm healthy as a freaking horse. (Though I could always stand to eat more veggies and probably drink a little less wine.) I knew it was psychological in part … Continue reading The tension preceding freedom
https://jamesclear.com/ira-glass-failure This was a good reading month! I really got back into my groove and started getting my reading-legs back. Here are the best things I read in June 2019. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt. THIS BOOK. I cannot stop thinking about it. Haidt presents … Continue reading Best things I read in June 2019
