For several years, I used my blog as an outlet to flex writing muscles I wasn’t using in my professional life. Due to many factors — other hobbies, lack of time, etc — I don’t get to do as much personal writing anymore. But here are a few pieces I’m proud of:
Word of the year, 2022
In yoga, an intention is a singular virtue or quality you hope to attain through your practice. It can be a word, a phrase, a mantra — whatever you need in the moment. To me, this centering act marks a beginning, a blank page, a clean transition from everything that came before it. For a few years now, I’ve carried this concept off the mat and started each new year with an intention to guide me through.
This is different from a new year’s resolution because it’s not something that can be failed. It’s not a goal with targets and deadlines and measurements. It’s a value statement, an objective, a North Star I search for after processing the previous year.
Good at words, bad at eggs
2020 will be remembered for a lot of terrible things. For some of us, it will also be the year we baked a crusty sourdough boule/started a podcast/grew 59 indoor plants. It’s a gossamer lining when a pandemic, economic despair, and civil unrest await outside our locked-down doors.
But hey, I can cook all kinds of eggs now.
Five signs it’s time to move on
Perfect jobs — free of stress, conflict, and the occasional red tape — don’t exist. But your workplace frustrations also might be a sign you’re in the wrong place or a symptom of organizational distress.