Happiness is a concept, not a goal
9th February, 2012 - Posted by Kaari - No Comments
The problem with having happiness as my goal in life is that it’s so damned nebulous. Happiness isn’t an activity, it isn’t really a job (unless you’re Gretchen Rubin), there is no clear obvious path to follow. It’s not something you can achieve and be done. It’s constantly shifting and evolving. So what I need » Read More
Philosophy and Travel
5th February, 2012 - Posted by Kaari - No Comments
Back in 2004 I took a vacation to the shore with my (then) husband and his family. It was a difficult trip for a lot of reasons, and I spent most of my time up in my room, lying on the bed reading. One of the books I read was Alain de Botton’s The Art » Read More
From the Smart People: How to Build Your Awesome Life
3rd February, 2012 - Posted by Kaari - 2 Comments
Want to build a life around your passions? Get paid to be who you are? Have people envy your success at making your life exactly how you want it? A lot of people do. Four posts on this theme from people I respect floated past my eyeballs recently. This happens a lot, where something takes » Read More
Incomplete Is Okay
29th January, 2012 - Posted by Kaari - No Comments
I’ve been having the kind of day where I can’t focus and nothing gets really done. I start, I get distracted, I flit, my mind won’t settle and neither will my body. Have you had those kinds of days? Here’s what I thought yesterday: Just because I’m not getting to done doesn’t mean I haven’t » Read More
Productivity Tools (or, How to Find the Flow)
25th January, 2012 - Posted by Kaari - 2 Comments
Are you stuck? Flailing? Wandering around in a fog doing a whole lot of nothing because you can’t figure out how to do anything and everything is urgent? Yeah, I get that way a lot. Here are six ways I get out of that unproductive funk. Naps When I’m stuck, or when I’m flailing, I » Read More
How to Rocket Your Efforts
22nd January, 2012 - Posted by Kaari - No Comments
Hello, my friend. I learned something this week that I kind of knew and yet it still surprised me. Sometimes, the best way to add fuel to your striving is to take a break. Every Friday at the gym is my favorite workout class. It’s called Body Fit, and it’s an hour of weights and » Read More
Course Corrections
18th January, 2012 - Posted by Kaari - No Comments
Imagine you’re in a boat going down stream. It doesn’t matter if it’s a fiberglass sailboat or a wooden dinghy, nor if it’s a wild mountain stream or one of those fake ones with a rubber lining they have at water parks. Or a raging river with rapids and whirlpools and you in a kayak. » Read More
Flow vs. Push
15th January, 2012 - Posted by Kaari - No Comments
We are taught to push through, tough it out, keep going, never quit. But I’ve learned that doesn’t work for me. Well, it does as far as exercise goes, but even there I know my body really well and I know when I need to make an effort and when I should stop to avoid » Read More
Most Improved
8th January, 2012 - Posted by Kaari - 2 Comments
On the wall above my desk I have a plaque for being the Most Improved player on the varsity basketball team in high school. I am not a talented athlete, but I do okay and I enjoy it. I earned that plaque because I went down to the gym after study hall and practiced shooting » Read More
The Impetus of Starting
5th January, 2012 - Posted by Kaari - No Comments
Do you ever feel like you’re stuck in a life you didn’t ask for with no idea how you got there or how to get out? I did. Six years ago (give or take a few months) I was working full time in business management at a financial services company. I was married, and owned » Read More
