10 Tips For your desk space What your office, your desk, or your workspace looks like, can affect your ability to get the job done. You work hard, so hard that you might not have the time to stop and think about what your desk looks like, or what’s on the walls around it. That might be OK for you – or that might be stifling you. I’m the later type of person. My work space, and what it looks like definitely affects me and by extension, my ability to perform my job. My last job was in the Law and Finance Building in Downtown Pittsburgh. They were having our new office space customized so we moved into a temporary office space on another floor of the building – and it was like stepping into the 80’s. It felt a bit like an office…
I called it Writer’s Block But it was really fear. Reading Liz Giblert’s Big Magic taught me something very important about my life and about myself. Yes you learn something from most books, but when I learned this important lesson from the accomplished author, tears welled up and I felt a cathartic release. Someone understood me. She understood, on a very real and personal level what I was doing to myself. I am not alone in these feeling. In fact, there are many people like this all around the world. It was incredible. Before reading her book about creativity and living a creative life – which she calls big magic – I would have told you that the reason I was no longer creating art, working on poetry or doing anything else that involve self expression, was that I didn’t have the time and…
#AMWRITING Are You? You should be! I’m not sure if it’s the advent of self publishing sites or not, but lately it seems like everyone is writing a book…and I love it! I’m writing a book…you’re writing a book…Wait! You’re not writing a book? If you’re not, stick around because in a little bit, I’ll tell you why I think you should be. I’m telling you the truth right now though when I say that I am writing a book. I’m not sure if it will ever get published. I sincerely hope that it does, but right now, that’s not the main reason why I am writing. If at first you don’t succeed… Currently, I’m fleshing out my second…
Why Do I Keep Yarn at my Desk? I’m so glad you asked Some people who have worked with me will spy my desk and give me a funny look or ask “Why do you keep yarn on your desk?” and the answer is very simple. It’s not because I like to procrastinate. It’s not because I’m that obsessed with knitting, although my boyfriend might tel you that I am. It’s because, when I hit a mental block, doing something that allows my active or conscious mind to take a break, allows my subconscious mind to keep working on what ever it is that is causing the mental or creative block. Mental and creative blocks happen – its an infuriating little fact of life. But that doesn’t mean that you have to continuously suffer or bang…
So go ahead and indulge yourself! You deserve to be happy! Productivity and success can so easily become addictive. With every little taste, we crave more. Eventually we get so consumed by our desire to get one more thing done or to accomplish that next thing that our professional lives slowly overtake our personal. What happens to our hobbies, those little things that we enjoy, that provide us happiness? They get left behind. Every time that this has happened in my life, something happened. I didn’t know it at the time, but looking back at my collective experiences, I’ve noticed one immediate change. The minute that my passions, my hobbies were set aside for the pursuit of something else, my mood shifted. In that moment, stress began to build, and with no hobbies, there was no release. When you don’t leave time for what…