From the category archives:
I made friends with the tamale guy at the farmers’ market last Saturday. This is embarrassingly huge for me. Not making a friend so much – more to do with how it happened.
I was waiting for someone who was standing in the world’s slowest line. (With the world’s oldest, sweetest farmer.) So I busied myself [...]
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I read Daniel Coyle’s The Talent Code the first week of 2010, and I still think about the premise at least, oh, every single day. Hands down the most influential businessey read of my year.
Not to build it up or anything.
Premise: Remarkable talent is possible for all of us. That means you. And me. Seriously. [...]
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I ate a chocolate croissant on Sunday. I’ve been wanting one for a month, since seeing “It’s Complicated” on Valentines Day. Watching Meryl Streep & Steve Martin bake and delight in a batch of chocolate croissants in that sweet Santa Barbara bakery planted a seed that was bound to grow.
Not that I’ve been resisting having [...]
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So yeah, I’m structure-resistant. And it’s not just about that pendulum swing of rigid productivity versus slacker rebellion. I think it also has to do with thinking I shouldn’t need help.
Because I want to be one of those people who is perpetually mindful and productive. And since I think I should already be there, I’m [...]
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Even if you’re prone to seasickness. Or, erm, emphatically structure-resistant like me.
Maybe I should back up, yes?
One of my prevalent life-sized patterns is to swing wildly from one end of a pendulum to another. Back when the main hitch in my giddyup was food and body-related, it looked like this:
Deprive self of favorite treat. White-knuckle [...]
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I went hiking one morning last week after rain had left the canyon slippery and sludgey with mud. After ten steps, my tennies were caked and heavy and I was sliding and clomping. Um, anti-graceful.
And I had this fleeting thought that it was ridiculous to be hiking. Like I was doing something wrong. Guilt attack. [...]
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Yeah, this is about changing my coffee drinking habits. But of course it’s kind of about everything.
Okay, so this habit changing stuff is hard. Also exciting, interesting, confusing, enlightening. At least if you’re doing it somewhat consciously. At moments I’m actually have fun with the process. Fun! I know, I’m weird. Seriously. And then, of [...]
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A few weeks ago I mentioned that I’ve been trying to change up my morning routine a bit. My goal is to push back e-mail and other time-wasting online activities, to start my day in my own hula hoop.
With the chaotic stream of chatter out there, the possibilities for getting distracted are endless. And changing this [...]
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I’ve been toying with the idea of cutting back on my coffee intake. Not, mind you, giving it up altogether. I’m not quite ready to abandon the yummy elixir that (jump) starts my morning.
Know that I don’t have an opinion about the shoulds or shouldn’ts of coffee drinking. Not a value judgment thing or claim [...]
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I'm Briana, the Chief Blisscoverer (one of the many perks of making up my own word) You're the who?
