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What are Executive Function Skills?   Your executive function (EF) skills are sometimes described as the conductor of your brain, and I...

It is only by being your true self that you can find your people. The act of being your true self is a magnet that draws others toward you.

If you’re not sure what to do, or if you’re just starting out, pick someone else's way of doing things and just follow that for a while.

I once read that Lorne Michaels has said, “Saturday Night Live doesn’t go on because it’s ready; it goes on because it’s 11:30 pm on a...

If you want to get it done, you have to write it down. I am a very visual learner--when people tell me their names, it often goes in one...

What baseline self-care activities do you need to do so that you can do your best writing? As a graduate student and, later, as a...

This is a follow-up from my last post where I introduced the idea of foundational activities and how they can help with writing. If you...

I've been thinking recently about the phenomenon of "writer's block," and how I don't think "writer's block" need exist for anyone. ...

I've been thinking about this recently--how to expand safely. By expand, I mean: try new things, take risks, put yourself (and your...

More Tips to Get Unstuck After writing my previous blog post, How to Keep Going, I kept coming up with more and more ideas about how to...

What do you know to be true about yourself? Are you living (and working) in a way that honors and reflects that? I love Gretchen Rubin...