Monthly Archives: June 2010

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  You Can’t Budget Your Time from “Permanent Overdraft Status”

  Posted on June 30, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, story & craft

  This is it. I am officially declaring bandwidth bankruptcy. [For our purposes, "bandwidth" = "my ongoing, finite capacity of time and energy."] Effectively, I have failed to balance my time and energy budget for at least the last year, probably longer. A little over a month ago, I agreed to take on a pro-bono web [...]

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  Trust.

  Posted on June 29, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, real life

  Almost 20 years ago, I was a college student.  It feels so odd to say that, because it really doesn’t feel that long ago.  At any rate, Acting I was one of those “formative life experience” classes in my first couple of semesters.  I went into the class expecting the challenge to be memorizing lines. [...]

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  Obligatory housekeeping post.

  Posted on June 28, 2010 by Kat French in real life

  A few items of note. As you’ve no doubt noticed, I’ve changed my blog theme again. Here’s the dealio: I loved the theme I had before. Loved the thumbnails. Loved the look of it. But having to find a thumbnail image for every post was keeping me from posting as often, because often the extra [...]

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  The obstacle course of unwanted progress.

  Posted on June 10, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention

  Sometimes change feels like a maze where you’re blocked at every turn. But sometimes, you have to hit a dead end to find the path forward you were too stubborn to seek.

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  Are you making life harder than it needs to be?

  Posted on June 9, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention, real life

  Yesterday, I had an epiphany. Over coffee (as usual). Have you had a bad day that, on the face of it, didn’t really need to be horrible?  Do you notice that setting an intention for the day changes how you approach the day? Bonus Questions Particularly for Enneagram Fours: Are you a “coffee snob”? (Or [...]

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  A giant (imaginary) balloon of unresolved conflict.

  Posted on June 8, 2010 by Kat French in managing attention

  Ever have a conflict with someone that starts small, then grows into a monster? It becomes like a giant balloon, quietly inflating till you and your person are pressed up against the walls. You can’t move. You can barely breath. You’re not even talking about the fact that you’re not talking about it.

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