I lost track of yesterday, but I didn’t lose track of the thing that I wanted to share with you. It’s a post that I saw on Instagram, actually, and promptly shared in my stories. It’s from Tumblr and attributed to the author flowerais. It reads: a big part of being happy is being excited. be excited for everything – making a cup of tea, decorating your future apartment, seeing a friend again, falling in love unexpectedly, the next episode of a show…

On Monday afternoon, as the long weekend was wrapping up, I wrote about the importance of planning. I’d had that topic on my mind because I’d failed to plan the work I wanted to get done on Saturday. As a result, both Saturday and Sunday were full of frustrating, distracted, halfhearted attempts to be productive. Not a great way to spend what could have been a satisfying and enjoyable long weekend. Another area where I failed to plan (and thereby planned to fail)…

I had a grand plan to get a lot of recipe testing done over the past weekend, and none of it got done. When I looked back in frustration on why I’d failed to actually cook anything, it was very clear to me that I didn’t really have a plan. I had ideas of the finished recipes that I wanted to make, and I had a bunch of ingredients in the fridge. But I hadn’t sat down and planned how I’d get from…

I had such high hopes for the first week of the new year! In spite of an up-and-down holiday season, I did get some quality rest between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. So I was ready to hit the ground running when I returned to my practice on Tuesday morning. On New Year’s Eve, I couldn’t deny the fact that I felt as though I might be getting a cold. I was relieved to feel a bit better on Monday, and I got…