It would be nice to escape right about now.

The trouble is, there's nowhere to escape to. And even if there were, they'd probably cancel your flight out.

So here we are, dealing with a reality that is once again not cooperating with our wishes. My heart goes out to anyone whose plan—whose life—has been upended by the new variant, along with all those who were already suffering before Omicron came to town. It's really hard.

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For years, I resisted getting the online version of my bookkeeping software.

It was a monthly fee for each business, whereas my existing desktop software had already been purchased and could be used for multiple businesses with no further expense.

Unfortunately, the desktop version of the software was buggy, unreliable, and didn't import transactions on its own. Attempting to use it required a lot of troubleshooting, and I always seemed to be accessing the wrong file or the wrong computer.

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I am changing.

Just recently, I made a series of decisions that were radically different from those I would have made in the past, setting me on a new path.

While I can't trace this shift to one particular source, I believe that it's the result of attending conferences, reading books, having stimulating and challenging conversations, watching videos, and listening to podcasts—in short, encountering a constant stream of new ideas that are altering my mental landscape.

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Guess what? I decided to try NaNoWriMo for the first time.

During NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, participants aim to write 50,000 words of a novel during the month of November.

I've never written a novel before, but I'm now over 4,000 words into one. And I'm already questioning whether word count is actually a good metric for me to focus on.

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When we think of decluttering, we might think of removing physical objects from our lives.

It’s a process that has to happen periodically. That’s because the default is to hang onto the things we’ve purchased or gained that are or were useful.

But we need to declutter not only the physical objects in our lives, but other things, too: time commitments, broken systems and processes, relationships, and even plans and dreams.

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