What a crazy week! Last Sunday, my friend Andrea and I launched Inspiration System on Instagram. Two Saturdays in a row, I went to concerts. I’ve talked to more people about creativity in the last week than I have months. What does this mean? It means I’ve got support behind me! I may be an…
Writing
Creating an Environment for Growth with an Inspiration System
If you’ve been following the blog, you know I believe in systems: automating processes to expedite progress, stay inspired, and move forward. Writing every week helps me tangibly track my progress. I record my thoughts and include next steps to help you. But what better way to keep this creative, collaborative progress going by sharing…
Ode to the midnight gym routine
It’s 11:30pm, and I’m shredding at the gym. Meanwhile, my friends are taking shots to mourn all the missed shots that ultimately led to the Bucks downfall. How did I get here? The cues are there: I too am angry that both Milwaukee’s baseball and basketball teams did not reign supreme today. When I check…
5 Summer Systems
I have many goals for the summer, with the ultimate endgame of using my time to be outside as much as possible, doing something local with good company. When creating systems, I think of the endgame first and work backward. What that looks like? Making habits as small and automatic as possible so that I…
Book Review-Ish: How Tidying Up Reveals Progress on Other Habits
After writing about wanting to read more in May, I did! I’m not sure if it was because I wrote about it last week and this proved to be an external motivator, or if it was the feeling of having a long sought after book in my hands but… I finally buckled down and read…
How to Embrace your Different Identities without Sacrificing One Role
We all play many different roles in life. There is power in associating yourself with multiple titles. There are almost always communities attached to these identities. And there is no shame in giving up one identity, temporarily or otherwise, to work on another. I care about these different self-given associations. Not only am I a…
April in Review: How do you maintain a habit?
Have you ever heard the phrase, “If it’s meant to be, it’s up to me”? There’s a lot of work in maintaining good habits, and this phrase is particularly encouraging. A lot of folks struggle with starting something new, but what happens when you finally overcome that first mental hurdle of starting? You keep it…
Review: The Four Tendencies by Gretchen Rubin
I love a good personality test. As an INFJ, I struggle to find folks like me: self-described introverts who still want to help or be around people, and often do. So much so that practically everyone else around us thinks we’re extroverts. Apparently, we’re the rarest personality type. (And, if you’re curious, my type is…
How I own the mornings, with my e-d-c-b-a system!
I set a generic goal of “own my mornings again” in 2019. I am now embracing a specific system! I don’t have an Instagram-friendly morning of an acai bowl and yoga, but I love my mornings. The memes are true: Beyonce also has 24 hours in a day… but the only thing I know about…
Can creatives be minimalists?
I’m a creative. And I’m working on minimalism and, as you’ll see on Goodreads, essentialism. Our digital culture loves buzzwords (which is a buzzword in itself) because on a surface level, they help group behaviors and ideologies into lifestyles, and even titles. Internally, they help people find one another. But these titles can separate people…