To start 2016, I thought I’d share some wise words from Amy Poehler. Here’s a tiny excerpt from her book, Yes Please, which I’m reading (and loving) now (emphases my own): It’s called Yes Please because it is the constant struggle often the right answer. Can we figure out what…
Remember when I wrote about the journal article that no one would publish but just wouldn’t die? (“Yes, because it was the last thing you blogged about,” and “No, because you never blog and I forgot about you,” are both acceptable answers.) Well, just last night, I received notice that…
Before I left my last job, I wrote a paper on ways to track and measure engagement within a field trial of an internet-based health behavior intervention. I dedicated a lot of time to the paper and submitted it to a journal that ultimately rejected it. I tried maybe one…
I did it so you don’t have to! In honor of completing my MPH today, read below and earn a(n honorary) Master’s in Public Health in Health Policy and Management from one of the top schools in the nation, too! Pre-Program Social and Behavioral Sciences in Public Health: Yep. Keep…
It’s been an embarrassingly long time since my last post (which, I admit, barely counts since it was just a link and a comment), but I have a good excuse. Several, in fact, but I’ll just discuss one in this post: self-care in the form of exercise. For me, exercise…
If you’ve ever had a great idea, drop everything and read Lara Merriken’s story of the birth and success of LÄRABAR. Enjoy!
The other day, a friend of mine was raving about this wine club service she recently signed up for. Wine delivered straight to your door is probably worthy of praise on its own, but, as my friend reported, this service goes above and beyond in the customer service arena. For…
I started using WorkFlowy a couple weeks ago. As someone who thinks in bullet pointed lists–I like it! While I can’t color-code it (my biggest complaint), I can tag the items on my list for easy sorting. When coming up with a tagging system, I thought back to the 70/20/10…
Man, am I exhausted. But somehow, I’ve also been feeling really inspired and motivated lately. So today, I was thrilled to come across this article on Quartz about progress mapping. The title, “Coloring in this picture helped me erase $26,000 in debt,” seemed like click bait, but it worked–and I’m…
In May 2014, some blogger wrote about a strategy she uses to increase her kids’ productivity (and active time) and decrease the time they spend looking at glowing screens. She calls it the Momentum Optimization Project, and it’s basically a to-do list that her kids must complete before they can…
