Living With and Adapting to Change
This is Johanna Rothman’s August 2026 Create an Adaptable Life Newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this newsletter. I hear a lot about work/life balance. I don t buy that. While we spend time at work, we only get one life. And my theory of life is to live it with as much [ ] The post What Would You Keep, Change, or Remove to Make Your Best Possible Life? appeared first on Create…
As I ve challenged myself physically, I noticed I m talking out loud, coaching myself. My most frequent word is Okay. Okay is short for: Okay, you finished that piece. Now, it s time for the next step so you can accomplish this entire thing. I try to keep my self-talk positive because I want to reinforce finishing [ ] The post How Do You Use Your Self-Talk to Finish Something You Want to…
Many of my colleagues use AI for parts of their jobs. (I do, too, to see what I ve already written.) Using AI requires both trust and judgment. Trust that the LLM has given you the correct answer(s). And that you can then judge those answers well. Here s an example that I see all the time: [ ] The post How Do We Trust Our Judgment When AI Offers Us Different Answers? appeared first on Create an…
This is Johanna Rothman’s July 2026 Create an Adaptable Life Newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this newsletter. (Looking for the video? Go to the bottom of the newsletter for the video link.) We ve all had strange days, when we just could not get anything done. When we have days like that, [ ] The post How Do We Choose Between a Straight Reset and Starting Anew? appeared first…
David Dame, in a LinkedIn post, said, We are all going to be disabled one day. Some of us just beat you to it. While he is correct, that is not the full story. I said, quoting his post, I do not think of myself as disabled. Instead, I think of myself as having insufficient [ ] The post How Do We Differentiate Between Being Disabled and Our Insufficient Abilities? appeared first on Create an…
The Tartan Army has left Boston. They are bringing their joy to other locales. The local newspaper, the Boston Globe, took out a full-page ad, thanking the Tartan Army. While I can t find the actual ad, there was a post on X showing the ad: https://x.com/BenVolin/status/2068384741313634405. (Somehow, I can t embed that into this post, so [ ] The post How Can We Find and Use Our Courage to Maintain…