It was the Monday after Thanksgiving, my first day back in the office after the long holiday weekend. I opened up an email that alerted me to the potentially devastating blows the proposed tax bill would inflict upon my 18-year-old business. Let me rephrase: The colleague who forwarded the information indicated those changes would essentially shut down the business I had created f[...]
Drumroll, please... And here it is, The List 3.0! Here are the Nudges I'll be drawing from for 52 weeks, starting December 12. Later today I'll print these out, cut each Nudge into a strip, wad those strips into little balls, and place them in my special bowl. There are way more than 52, and that's intentional. I want to have options. I want to always be surprised. You may sim[...]
How have you used 52Nudges? Have you done each nudge along with me? Picked and pursued your own? Read about my adventures purely for the entertainment value? Something my friend Amy said recently intrigued me, so I asked her to elaborate. Here’s what 52Nudges has inspired her to do. When Amy Morrell was first furloughed from her job in mid-April, she spent some of her time he[...]
Dashako/iStockphoto, via Getty Images I’m trying to think when was the last time I purchased new underwear for myself…. Geez, this is embarrassing. Eight years ago? Time to dump out that drawer and see what’s in there (and what needs to go). This is part of my whole declutting project, in which I choose one small section to review versus trying to dive in and do a major overha[...]
Well, crap. I knew this was coming — heck, I created these nudges! — and have been dreading the day I would pull it from the bowl. That day has come. This is included because over the past two years I’ve noticed I’ve been been saying more frequently “Laundry is my life.” Sorting, washing, drying, line-drying, ironing, folding, putting away…. It’s meant to be a joke, but[...]
Back in my single days, I was very crafty. I made wreaths with my glue gun, I created elaborate table centers, I sewed. Not just mending; I made curtains and duvet covers without patterns and created all my prom and formal dresses. Legit! In my early 30s I discovered a friend and I shared a love for needlework and…wouldn’t it be more fun to do it together? We made a date and worked on[...]
By Chris Green, Guest Nudger As soon as I heard Chris’s story about how she stepped out of (or into?) her comfort zone, I asked if I could share it with the 52Nudges community. Read on for some “powerful” inspiration. — Kathleen I am not a risk-taker. Nope nope nope. I stay in my lane, do what I’m told (well, mostly), and am definitely not breaking any laws. But w[...]
All natural. Photo by Patricia Gonion. If you’ve spent any time in 52Nudges, you know that I am a huge fan of people who summon up their courage and create changes in their lives. Suszi McFadden is one of those brave people I’ve been watching quietly from the sidelines for a while. Full disclosure, we’ve been friends since the early 1980s, a friendship that has grown closer no[...]
The Walt Disney Family Museum in The Presidio of San Francisco. I love love love hearing from readers about their successful nudges. Recently I got to experience another high: being asked to participate in a friend’s nudge! Here’s Ann’s story. —KGW Story and photos by Ann Murphy As Kathleen Guthrie Woods was gearing up for 52Nudges 2.0, I was inspired by two of her i[...]
“Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting” 1638-39, by Artemisia Gentileschi. Now in the British Royal Collection. I don’t recall what originally inspired this nudge. Maybe it had to do with wanting to look outside my comfort zone for creative inspiration. Now that I think about it, I recently encouraged a client, who was experiencing some burnout, to take a break from writing w[...]
