Imagine you’re driving down the road and you see this huge, scraggly tree that kind of looks like a hand beckoning you. It’s a really weird tree and you’re staring at it when you suddenly feel a bump bump bump. You’ve just run over the uneven ground on the side Read more…
It’s easy to lose sight of your goal as you go about your day-to-day tasks and become entrenched in the details of your projects. However, this can be a slippery slope to losing motivation and alignment. It’s important to keep your overarching goal as visible and prominent as possible. This Read more…
Have you ever worked on a big, complex project and found the experience easy and enjoyable? What about the reverse? Was it difficult and almost nightmarish with constantly shifting goals and requirements? The difference between the two experiences is night and day. But the cause of those differences? The simple Read more…
Election day is just around the corner, and I’ve been seeing a handful of ads for some of the amendments on the Florida ballot. What I’ve found fascinating has been seeing an ad that is for an amendment and then seeing a different ad that is against that same amendment. Read more…
How often do you put off creating or posting or declaring something as done because it doesn’t feel good enough? How many more projects, posts, or articles would you have under your belt if you had just said “good enough” and hit publish after initial creation? We often feel like Read more…
Do you feel stuck, stagnant, or lost? All you need is a little momentum. Momentum is the engine that drives creativity, inspiration, and productivity. How can we gain momentum if we currently feel stuck? Easy! We start with a small, simple, easy to do action. Once we’ve done that, we Read more…
Where is your focus? If your answer is more than one thing, you may not actually be focusing at all! The definition of focus as a noun is “a point of concentration”. A point. Not two points, not three or four or five, a singular point of concentration. As our Read more…
What am I trying to accomplish? I have started to ask myself this question before starting any task, programming or otherwise. Asking myself what I am trying to accomplish with this task helps me clearly identify the end goal/definition of done and figure out if this task is actually necessary Read more…
How do you define success? For me, success is growth in the direction of my goals. This summer has been a very successful summer because I have grown so much from the start of the summer to now and my growth has been focused on my goals of improving my Read more…
Hello! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week! March seems to be flying by! This past week has been pretty amazing. I had several meetings that all went very well, got my receipts for taxes, danced a ton, saw the new Batman movie, and got lots of puppy cuddles. The Read more…