LauraEarnest.com Simple Evening Habits That Make Tomorrow Easier A better evening can lead to a better morning. Try these simple evening habits to make tomorrow feel easier from the start. Read More My 2026 Reader Survey is open! If you take the survey and leave your email address, you will be entered into a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card. The survey drawing closes at midnight Eastern on 30 September 2026. Take the Survey 600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246Unsubscribe ·...
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LauraEarnest.com 3 Ways I Handle Interruptions Without Losing My Day Interruptions happen, but they don’t have to derail everything. These simple strategies help me recover faster. Read More My 2026 Reader Survey is open! If you take the survey and leave your email address, you will be entered into a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card. The survey drawing closes at midnight Eastern on 30 September 2026. Take the Survey 600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246Unsubscribe ·...
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LauraEarnest.com Deliberate Living Made Simpler. VIEW IN BROWSER The Meeting Avalanche I recently took a week off from work. With a weekend conference at one end, and then traveling to DC for a concert, I spent the rest of the week relaxing and helping my daughter get ready to move for grad school. I looked at my work calendar on Thursday because someone asked about a meeting time. And I realized that all the meetings from my week off had been moved to my Monday. I was heading into a day of...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
LauraEarnest.com The Hidden Cost of Being Too Busy Being too busy has a cost: stress, distraction, and less clarity. Explore what overload really does to your days. Read More 600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246Unsubscribe · Preferences
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LauraEarnest.com What Deliberate Living Means to Me Deliberate living is about making intentional choices with your time and energy. Here’s what it means to me and why it matters. Read More 600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246Unsubscribe · Preferences
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LauraEarnest.com Deliberate Living Made Simpler. VIEW IN BROWSER “Don’t Do Speculative Coding” It’s intern season at work. This year we have two thoughtful and mature interns who are quick to pick things up. Working with interns can be a challenge, because it is typically their first exposure to the “real” world. One of our interns is making a system to keep our source data in sync by centralizing our retention policies. That means that we won’t come in to find that half of our data is gone...
2 months ago • 3 min read
LauraEarnest.com Why I Have So Many Pens: A Lesson in Impulse Buying I break down my pen obsession, impulse buying, sunk costs, and how I learned to stop chasing “better” for good. Read More 600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246Unsubscribe · Preferences
2 months ago • 1 min read
LauraEarnest.com My Bullet Journal Weekly Spread I use my bullet journal weekly spread to organize maintenance tasks, long-term goals, and project deadlines—all at a glance. Read More 600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246Unsubscribe · Preferences
3 months ago • 1 min read
LauraEarnest.com Deliberate Living Made Simpler. VIEW IN BROWSER Making Time For Connection We all lead busy lives. And that means that often times we are scurrying from task to task, place to place, with little thought to making connections. Social interactions start being by default: people at work, church, or other adults at child activities. And while that may be enough, that routine of seeing the same people by default is not how I want to spend all of my social interactions. My church...
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