Every week on Friday, I share a list of the most interesting and inspiring content I’ve read lately here on my blog. You can expect thoughts on productivity, happiness, balance, spirituality, politics, and more. Subscribe here to get updates. See archives here. 

I think Jason Zook’s brain is so cool and interesting. His latest project is searching for a traditional book publisher *after* he has already written the whole book.

Relationship realtalk from Ask Polly, and I actually think this is a great read whether or not you’re in a new relationship. Surrendering to change is an important life skill.

Captain Awkward is doing some essential work in the world, I tell ya. This latest post about a seemingly trivial marital conflict ended up teaching me some big lessons about boundaries and happiness.

It’s no longer International Women’s Day, but I was really happy to see donor matching on all loans to women on Kiva yesterday. Kiva’s one of my favourite organizations – I feel like these micro loans make an enormous difference in people’s lives, and knowing someone’s story makes the act of donating a little bit more personal.

I had a mini style coaching session with my friend Rebecca Jacobs last weekend and it was so powerful! She is incredibly good at what she does. Tons of great tips on her YouTube channel too.

Loved the most recent episode of Hurry Slowly on sustainability, maintenance, and making room for competing priorities. Especially interesting because I’m working on starting another podcast myself!

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It was an amazing week for feeling inspired! Lots of great chats with friends, creative work, new clients, fun ideas, and things to look forward to. I am feeling super beyond happy these days and the sense of possibility is amazing. This weekend I am helping at this gorgeous dinner, reading books, making cookies, getting over this cold for good and going to yoga. I hope you have a wonderful weekend too. xo.

Every week on Friday, I share a list of the most interesting and inspiring content I’ve read lately here on my blog. You can expect thoughts on productivity, happiness, balance, spirituality, politics, and more. Subscribe here to get updates. See archives here. 

Lessons in how to be a good ally from Black Panther: be quiet, and know your place. Also, don’t expect praise.

In light of all the frustration and terror and anger, I thought that this announcement and decision was a huge step in the right direction. Yes please to more of this.

This writer spent two years trying to fix the gender imbalance in her stories, and it’s a good reminder that we often need to be more intentional and look more closely at our choices. When we don’t, we can kid ourselves that we’re doing pretty well with being unbiased.

Constantly working on accepting the lack of perfect, both in my business and in my personal life. Not everyone is going to like me, and that’s a good thing, considering the fact that I don’t like everyone.

Fellow notebook geeks, rejoice! So fun to see this photo and read more about his process. I have adopted Austin’s daily logbook idea this year and it’s my favourite recent habit by a mile.

Always working on being more straightforward and blunt, especially when other people are tramping around on my boundaries and expecting me to take it lying down. We all need to practice saying what we mean and meaning what we say!

We’ve all read these before, but it made me feel more grounded in my purpose to read them again this week. I think I’m doing a pretty good job with avoiding these regrets!

I loved this graduation speech. Most of society’s arguments are kept alive by a failure to acknowledge nuance.

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I’ve been feeling really run-down this week while fighting a cold that won’t seem to go away! In the meantime, I had lots of interesting calls for work about new projects I’m excited about, delicious shakshuka for lunch, lots of sunshine and smiles, a wonderful story-telling event, and puppy cuddles All in all, it’s been a great week. I hope you have a wonderful weekend! xo.

Every week on Friday, I share a list of the most interesting and inspiring content I’ve read lately here on my blog. You can expect thoughts on productivity, happiness, balance, spirituality, politics, and more. Subscribe here to get updates. See archives here. 

Since I am a person with a serious love/hate relationship towards technology, I loved this thread about apps that help people take breaks and do more self-care.

I just downloaded Flic after a recommendation from Happier in Hollywood. It’s an app that helps you manage and delete your photos in a fun way. It’s like Tinder for photos! I did one round today and can confirm that it’s more interesting than going through my photos one at a time.

This mini documentary series about the “Loving Generation” has been super interesting so far. There’s so much nuance here and it’s fascinating to hear all the stories.

I think I have found my freelance one true love in Bonsai. I’ve used the app before back when it did mainly contracts, but now it has time-tracking and invoicing and is everything I need to run my business! I will probably be upgrading next month.

I have now sent this podcast episode about creating love-filled relationships to a couple friends, so I figured I should share it here too! I liked the no-nonsense but spiritual approach here.

I went to see Black Panther last weekend and was so excited by it. It is full of such empowering representation for women and people of colour, plus is an amazing superhero action movie. It was also partially set in Busan, where I lived for a year, so that was fun! I loved this video explaining why Black Panther is so important.

Very most definitely cried and yelled when Tessa and Scott won gold. They were perfect, and it was so amazing to watch their reactions live when they won.

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The weeks are flying these days, and it didn’t help that this was a short work week for us here in Ontario – we celebrated Family Day on Monday! This weekend I have a pretty full schedule: Creative Mornings today, two book clubs, a Beyography class, lunch with friends, a birthday party extravaganza and a trip home! I hope you have a wonderful weekend too. xo.

Every week on Friday, I share a list of the most interesting and inspiring content I’ve read lately here on my blog. You can expect thoughts on productivity, happiness, balance, spirituality, politics, and more. Subscribe here to get updates. See archives here. 

Is anything more romantic than this playlist Michelle made for Barack? Answer: no.

This week’s TuesdaysTogether meetup was all about business growth, so I started a free trial of 17hats to see if I can use it to streamline and uplevel my business processes! It’s always tricky implementing brand-new systems, but so far, so good.

I re-read this piece by Ashley C. Ford this week when I was looking for a quote and was reminded of how beautiful love can be. There is so much possibility for growth and healing!

Do you know your love style? I took this quiz again recently and found out that my styles are ‘Possessive’ and ‘Unselfish’. I don’t know much about this framework but seems like an interesting way to learn more about myself.

I have been binge-watching Queer Eye nonstop this week, you guys. It’s beyond good. I never really watched the original series but now I want to go back and watch it all from the beginning.

Along with the rest of the country, I cried and cheered at Tessa and Scott’s long program this week.

I also got chills watching this skater’s historic jump (and her reaction!!).

Does anyone else use Airtable? I love how it looks and feels but have no idea what to use it for. If you have suggestions, hit me up!

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Short and sweet this week, since the week has totally flown by! It’s been packed full of lovely things: a trip to a beautiful plant store, a dance class with a bunch of friends, a meetup with fellow entrepreneurs, a sweet Valentine’s Day, and some fun new work opportunities. I’m really happy. I hope you have a wonderful weekend too! xo.