On Monday mornings, my team at work gathers for a mini huddle where we talk about our top 3 priorities for the week. On a recent call, I joked about how I had three very clear, deadline driven priorities and I was absolutely, 100% going to focus on them even though I had a bunch of small little tasks on my mind as well. “I’m not going to let myself get distracted by anything else.” Reader, I got distracted. Immediately after my morning meetings, I proceeded to work through all my simple tasks...

A while back, I mindlessly repeated the phrase, “the show must go on.” I can’t remember what I was reacting to.  While I’ve said this likely hundreds of times in my life, a secondary thought emerged and I found myself wanting to dig into the history. Per Wikipedia  (did you know phrases had Wikipedia pages? I did not.), the phrase “originated in the 19th century with circuses. If an animal got loose or a performer was injured, the ringmaster and the band tried to keep things going so that the...

I love Biscoff cookies. I love collecting them from my plane travels and keeping them in a mason jar in the snack corner of my cupboard, pulling them out only to drink with a cup of decaf black tea, watching them soften in the mix of ceylon and soy milk. They're better that way. The other week, on a tired Thursday, I went into my Delta Airlines sponsored stash, packed my thermos, and headed to the office. It was there, split between sips and Slack messages that I made my mistake. I'm deeply...