Editor’s Notebook 1

Welcome to the very first Editor’s Notebook! If you’re anything like me (and of course you are—why else would you be reading my blog?), then you probably have dozens of notebooks, scribbled-on bits of paper, and Post-Its all over the place. That’s how editors’ minds work. We have hundreds of creative ideas spinning around our…

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New! Find Your Answers in the Library

One of my favorite things to do is to curl up on the couch and bury my head in a good book. I bet you love losing yourself in a fabulous story too. I get most of my reading material from the local library because I can’t say no to free resources. It’s also a…

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How to Get Started When You’re Completely Overwhelmed

There are always warning signs right before someone totally loses it. Maybe their desks get increasingly messier as the week goes on, empty coffee cups pile up at their feet, their eyes start twitching, and they can frequently be heard sighing or whimpering in their cubicles. Maybe that’s you? It’s been me on many occasions.…

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What to Do When It Feels Like Your Life Has No Direction

“So what do you want to do with your life?” I was 20 years old, and my father and I were having another tense conversation about the direction my life was taking…or rather, lack of direction. Five years earlier I had survived a suicide attempt, and I had been slowly putting together the pieces of…

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A New Freebie for You Productivity All-Stars!

Do you remember what it was like to be 10 years old? When I was that age, I spent much of my time eating fistfuls of Nutter Butters and watching Duck Tales (woo-oooo!!!). But when I wasn’t imagining myself swimming through the mounds of gold in Uncle Scrooge’s money bin, I would play school with…

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Warning: Your Deadlines are Making You Procrastinate (for REAL!)

We’re going to take a trip down memory lane today, back to the time I was a newspaper reporter. I was a regular Lois Lane, and I even had my dark-haired, muscly, glasses-wearing boyfriend (that’d be Chris). Unfortunately, Chris didn’t wear a blue Spandex suit and save the day like Superman. But he did drive…

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My Best Posts About Fear

Welcome to Face Your Fear Week! I’ll be sharing posts about confronting your fears so you can live your happiest, most-authentic life. Let’s kickoff the week with a roundup of my best posts about fear. Enjoy! PS, there are nearly 400(!) posts in the Archives at Sage Grayson Coaching, so don’t be afraid to root…

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