by Amber Turrill | May 30, 2016 | Amberamblings, Family, Personal Stuff
Yesterday was a pretty landmark day. I had the pleasure of watching my best friend Valerie get married. Like most weddings, there ended up being a lot to do. The bride is an engineer who tends to enjoy DIY. To give you an idea, she ripped up the floor and retiled her...
by Amber Turrill | Nov 2, 2015 | Freelancing, Personal Stuff, Productivity
I’m a big fan of this guy named Don Dalrymple. He’s my business coach and he’s also a pretty rad friend for several years now. I’m lucky that we’ve been involved in each other’s lives pretty tightly over the past year or so....
by Amber Turrill | Oct 12, 2015 | Amberamblings, Personal Stuff
I’m ghost writing a book for someone right now. This is always fun stuff and I look forward to getting projects like this. I’ve probably done this a dozen times in the past ten years or so and it never gets old. This one happens to be about positive...
by Amber Turrill | Sep 25, 2015 | Best Practices, Freelancing, Personal Stuff, Productivity
Productivity is a science. We tend to think there’s a magic button that can be pushed or a sequence of rituals stitched together that will somehow make us all beasts. Or hyper productive robots who are fully on when we’re on. Especially after the last month, getting...
by Amber Turrill | Sep 14, 2015 | Amberamblings, Family, Personal Stuff
Those of you who know me personally are aware that my mom and dad passed away over the last few weeks. Despite not being in contact/being divorced for several years, they died within five days of one another. It wasn’t exactly sudden. They’d both been ill...
by Amber Turrill | Aug 19, 2015 | Personal Stuff, Productivity
So I broke down and bought a planner. Who cares, right? Everybody has some kind of strategic organization system-or if they should just so happen to be managing your assets somehow, you hope they do. The thing about having a planner is that I have absolutely no idea...
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