This is Johanna Rothman’s January 2026 Create an Adaptable Life Newsletter. The unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. Since I feel as if the entire world is off-balance, I’ve decided to focus on what I can do in my life, family, and various communities to make things better. But I can’t just […]
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Do you feel as if all the changes are a little too much for you? I do. How do I keep going when the world is in such chaos? We keep on, keeping on. How? Here’s my “solution:” Choose one thing to do, something you have control over. Execute something against that goal. (For me,
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Many people use the new year to resolve something, those pesky New Year’s resolutions. I won’t bore you with the stats, but most of us do not keep resolutions. I never kept mine because they were too big, too vague, or just not achievable on my own. Resolutions don’t work for me. But projects? I love
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Many of my Christmas-celebrating friends talk about the magic of the season. The smells of the trees, hot chocolate, and other favorite foods, the search for exactly the right gifts, and the anticipation in everyone’s eyes, especially the children. That’s great. I hope everyone can experience some of that magic this year. And, I will
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It’s the “dark” time of year here in the Northern hemisphere. Especially for those of us in the eastern parts of our time zones, the sun is low in the sky much of the day. Sunset is quite early. It feels dark. (Worse, if you pay attention to the news, life seems quite dark.) We
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This is Johanna Rothman’s December 2025 Create an Adaptable Life Newsletter. The unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. Now that I’ve had this big birthday, people are asking me if I plan to slow down. As always, with these interesting questions, the answer depends on the context. If the context is driving,
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I have not been regular with my posts on this site because I have been learning a ton. That learning created delays in all my work. But I needed to finish this work, a Kickstarter for Effective Public Speaking, because it might change how I choose to write and publish in the future. While I
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I always have an appetite to do more—more writing, more walking, more exercising. (You are not surprised, even if you are laughing at me. That’s fine. I can live with your laughter.) And I realize we are just six weeks from the end of the year. (Six weeks!) Originally, I wondered how I could fit
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This is Johanna Rothman’s November 2025 Create an Adaptable Life Newsletter. The unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this email. As a consultant, I use the value I offer to choose how to price my products and services. That’s how I know if a specific service or book will offer value to a client
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I just had a”Big Birthday,” the kind that ends in 5 or 0. So now, I am in the midst of a “senior life” crisis. It feels just like my previous crises, where I search to find a new role that fits my life now. In Secrets of Consulting, Gerald M. Weinberg said: It may
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