Productivity vs Quality

In Cal Newport’s latest book “Slow Productivity,” one of the philosophies is obsessing over quality. Now, I don’t have anything against quality, but obsessing over it? 🤔🤔 As a working mom I find it a little difficult to embrace. Shipping is...

What Does Productivity Look Like for Moms?

For me, a day is productive if I spend at least 2 hours in client work or writing for one of my blogs or my next novel WIP. I do at least three out of these five tasks: pitching journaling marketing networking 10k step count There is no fire fighting (read refreeing...

Working on Weekends? Do it Out of Choice.

Friend of list Rod Aparicio put it well in his yesterday’s email (read here) that if you work on weekends, it should be out of choice. It struck home because yesterday I almost didn’t send my own email to you Superlistas 🙈 And then I did. Because I wanted...

Rely Only on Data to Make Decisions

Do you rely on these to make decisions: assumptions (those who wear glasses are nerds) anecdotal evidence (children of this school are smart) abstract observations (I have found that mornings are best to do complex tasks) If yes, stop right now. Because you might end...

The Idea About How to Do Things

It’s not necessary that the idea about what needs to be done to complete a project or reach the goal is the same for you or your team mates or senior management. The same applies to personal relationships. Your partner may not agree with your ideas about...

Is One Day of Celebration Really Enough?

Hey Superlistas, Happy Women’s Day. Honestly, I never “celebrate” Women’s Day because I feel it funny to celebrate something just for a day when it should be celebrated 365 days. So instead, I wrote this post of toxic vs positive productivity...

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