Category: Productivity
Posts on getting meaningful work done — the methods, the tools, the difference between busy and effective, and what to do when the project is bigger than the day.
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If You Understand Your Patterns, You Understand Your Productivity
Almost a year of logging her own creative workflow — and letting AI find the patterns. Here’s what she learned about building a productivity system that adapts to you, not the other way around.
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Energy-Based Workflow: Creating While Ill
For the past couple of weeks, my body has been calling the shots. Sinus infection, throat infection, vaccine fatigue—it feels like I’ve slept more than I’ve been awake. I’ve lost whole stretches of days to rest, naps, and doctor visits. And still, the work goes on. Not in the full-force way I love. Not in…
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I Asked 5 AI Models to Analyze My Workflow—Here’s What I Learned (and Why You Might Want to Try It)
It started with a simple question: Could an AI help me understand how I actually work? I’m a high-output writer—fiction, blog posts, audiobooks, formatting, metadata, cover art, automation, the whole publishing pipeline. I’d been logging my work habits for 2 months, watching myself churn through chapters and marketing, edits and uploads, sprints and stalls. So…
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AI-Assistive for the Win: Organizing 63 Pieces in a Minute
I’m not sure when I first started blogging, but there was a 19 in every day’s date. I’d already been published by a major traditional publisher and had hit a bestseller list under a pen name, but my very first regular posts—raw, reflective, and homemade—had a following of 70,000+. Indie publishing was just taking root,…
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How I Learned to Work Like Myself – Finally!
Maybe you’re not burned out. Maybe you’re simply working against yourself. For years, I’ve chased productivity systems that didn’t fit. Not that they didn’t work to some degree, but I was force-fitting my natural rhythms into a structure that wasn’t natural to my brain and body’s rhythms. That meant I was spending time, energy, and…
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What It Is Wednesday: No Light at the End of the Tunnel
We like to assure the downtrodden, the sick, and the grieving that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. But wait…are we so sure? I’ve known (and have written about) the long, dark tunnel I’ve been going through for almost a year and a half now. It’s related to overcoming some particular…
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Why the Bullying Pattern in My Life Re-Surfaced
When the same painful pattern of emotional manipulation resurfaces in your life, there’s a reason rooted in early programming. A raw, unflinching essay on recognizing the cycle — and why this time, everything changes.
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Two Reasons: #1. Eliminate to Liberate
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Passion to the Third Degree. You cannot imagine how much email I get every day. Filters do little to no good or I lose sales. Part of the problem is that one of my private email addresses has been spread all over the planet by a handful of…
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Lessons in Focus: the Law of Attraction in the Corporate World
The moment I opened my eyes, I knew—with a growing sense of dread—that I had overslept. Somehow I managed to be showered and out the door in 10 minutes, knowing I’d still be a good 5 minutes late for work, and already stressing over telling my boss I’d slept right through the alarm. I just…
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Productivitis
Yes, I’m sick. No voice. Allergy-induced laryngitis with mini-asthma attacks. I stopped taking the allergy meds in late April because I never have allergy attacks between late April and early August. Ever. But this year, with the smoke and drought hitting Florida, I’m dealing with some allergens of a different sort. This is not a…
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Radical Ideas vs Bureaucracy… Guess Which Wins?
I’ve come to terms with the fact that my best asset to any organization is my ability to generate ideas. I have tons of ideas. Wild ideas. Crazy ideas. Creative ideas. Never-done-before ideas. Legal but can-you-really-do-that ideas. Subversive ideas. Analytically supported ideas. “Effin’ Brilliant” ideas as some people have called them. It’s the way my…
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The Queen of Multi-Tasking
I seem to be either concentrating on ONE thing, so focused that I could forget anything else going on for a little while or…. Well, okay, that’s actually rare. It’s usually something creative or someone or some subject I feel intensely about but it’s still very rare that I’m focused on just one thing, especially…
