Category: Time Management
Posts on managing time well enough to actually live — the systems, the priorities, the saying no, and the recognition that time is the only resource that doesn’t refill.
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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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Living in a Faraday Cage and Writing Conspiracy Theory Novels
I don’t need a tinfoil hat to protect me when I’m writing my conspiracy theory novels. No, I have chicken wire in my walls to keep out those sneaky signals. I’ve said for years that I wanted to live in an adorable historic bungalow but that, since I’ve sold my house and can live anywhere,…
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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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Chasing Joy, Not Chasing Sales
When I left my former career in Federal Acquisition, I carried with me a long history of deadlines, performance metrics, and being on call for everything and everyone. Retirement was supposed to feel like breathing room—but for a while, I still found myself chasing numbers, even as an author. Until I stopped. Not because I…
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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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Gossip: How Christians Can Go to Hell
“I would never say that,” I murmured, voice trembling, to the other girl’s teacher. The woman bent down, peering into my face. If she’d been my homeroom teacher or if I’d ever had a class with her, she would have known me, would’ve known that I tended to be the teacher’s pet, without even intending…
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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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What It Is Wednesday: The Magical Gift of Synchronicity
I love synchronicity, those sudden coincidences or long-growing life-changers that are changes of direction on our life maps and sometimes intersections with something or someone we never dreamed of. If ever there was a Godspark, synchronicity is it. It’s having your meeting moved unexpectedly to a building you never visit and running into someone you…
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I Literally Changed My Perspective in One Afternoon
Last week, in the course of one afternoon, I literally changed my perspective. And when I say literally, I mean both physically and mentally. If I’d had any idea how one little change in my work space would make life easier, I would have done it a few years back. You might not think that…
