Welcome to the Saturday Summary.
What I’ve Posted – Blog Summary
This week the blog covers a lot of different topics including career insurance, creativity, and the power of a notebook.
How to Stabilize Your Career in an Uncertain Economy. The world is full of uncertainty. This first post of the week provides 7 ideas on how to stabilize your career to prepare for the unexpected.
Be Interested and Interesting. This post suggests that we need to find the balance during conversations to be both interested and interesting.
Creativity at Work. There are three elements to creativity – expertise, motivation, creative thinking skills. This post dives into insight from a Harvard Business Review article.
The Power of a Notebook. We can use notebooks for all kinds of things. This article provides ideas on how a notebook could support each of the 8 dimensions of wellbeing.
Clean, Compress, and Cache. Leveraging inspiration from computers to help reset our physical and digital spaces this spring.
What I’ve Listened To – PodList
This week, the podcasts cover topics that include confidence, an alternative to work-life balance, the positive role gaming can play in our future, and more. I hope that there are a few in the mix that resonate with you right now.
It’s Not Work Life Balance You Want; It’s This. 10 minutes. Happen to Your Career. This episode talks about insights from working with over 2000 professionals. What people truly want isn’t balance at all, but three specific elements that transform how work fits into your life.
How to Build Your Self-Confidence. The Key to a More Intentional Life. 13 minutes. Optimal Living Daily. In this episode, Joshua Becker explores how confidence is less about innate talent and more about deliberate practice and mindset.
The Power of Gaming Together in a Lonely World. 11 minutes. TED Talks Daily. Laura Miele, the president of EA Entertainment & Technology, dives into how video games unite millions worldwide in a vibrant network of social hubs.
Richer in Retirement. 14 minutes. Optimal Living Daily. This podcast explores how multiple income streams, careful spending, and an entrepreneurial mindset, can lead to early retirement. The formula isn’t about sitting idle but about creating more wealth, both financial and experiential.
10 Benefits of Planning That Have Nothing to Do with Productivity. 25 minutes. Best Laid Plans. In this episode, Sarah shares 10 benefits of planning that have nothing to do with productivity. She covers benefits including stress reduction, anticipation, creativity, and having more fun.
What I’ve Been Up To
This week, I found it difficult to stay focused on any single thing at a time. My mind was bouncing from freelance and fractional projects to the MeEO Membership launch to a few other ideas that have been bubbling up lately. I needed to take some of my own advice and do a bit of “pause and plan” to regain my footing and move forward.
Outside of work, I was just as scattered. I flitted between projects and work around the house. I felt like I would start one thing, get distracted, move to another, and then realize I never finished the first thing. Toward the end of the week, I made a point to get outside and walk a bit more which seemed to help clear the clutter in my mind and get me feeling a little less aimless.
What Do You Think?
Which blog post was the right topic for you right now?
Did any of the podcasts touch on a topic you want to learn more about?
How could you take one idea from this week’s posts and pods into the week ahead?