
D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: Summer Tick Down (September 2022) 🍨
Summer’s ticking down 🍨 It’s been a quiet, but pretty amazing summer. —We just got back from visiting our daughter, who is doing summer stock in Illinois. We refreshed our vision board. And we are knee-deep in our first draft of our book. 📝 6 Things we love about Toronto: https://bit.ly/240toronto6post BUT WTF? Where did it go?! But we are reminded of the fact that, in 3 weeks, all the madness of the fall kicks in. —Our schedules become STUFFED with commitments and the wea

D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: Flowing like an oil slick 🛢️ (June 2022)
Revved up…. — Yes! I can feel how much BETTER I have gotten over the years! I feel like I manage the workflow AT WORK and AT HOME in such a better way! Not only do I NOT freak out—EVEN when I am tempted to! 😳—but I just take a deep breath, resolve to return to my list of priorities, choose the first one, two, or three, set my timer, and get to work toward it. Almost as SOON as I begin, I get engrossed in the activity and IMMEDIATELY calm the fuck down! 🧘🏾♂️ What’s more is

Yep, READY to rock! 🤘🏽: D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind (November 2021)
—Yep, we're READY to rock! 🤘🏽 Following a roadmap —I feel like, even though I have a shit ton of work to do at the dayjob, I am ready for that too! 💥 I have all the rough plans typed out, so that I WON'T get lost in the shuffle of things. I am going to be shifting back and forth between many IMPORTANT priorities now, so I need to CONSTANTLY have that roadmap to keep me focused. With this, I don’t get as overwhelmed as I tend to get WITHOUT it, because I KNOW that there are

D.I.Y. Rock Star Rewind: "Fall in my own pit /Even when I spot it." (November 2020)
Those are some of the lyrics from the title track, “Sugar Fit,” which kinda characterizes our current mood…. What the hell happened?! September is OVER! Dang! I have written the newsletter message three times this month 😮 but couldn’t seem to get it together to get it to you. In fact, it wasn’t until this morning that I was able to get my head into the place where it felt right. So here it is. My BIG message this time? What’s been in my spirit lately is the spirit of discove