Jaclyn Paul / Lena George

author. mom. nerd. lover of mountains, rime ice, and cloud inversions.

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  • Business Diaries #2: Actually, I want to make uneven progress

    This post is part of Business Diaries, where I document my journey to grow a business around my blog The ADHD Homestead. You can read the full series here. Having just hit the midyear mark, I want to talk about managing goals as an indie. At the beginning of 2019 I listed several goals I wanted to accomplish this…

  • How I fight impostor syndrome by doing stuff I’m bad at

    A theme has emerged for my mid-30s: I’m obsessed with doing stuff I’m bad at. Weird, right? I’ve been labeled gifted and talented for pretty much my whole life. Toward the end of high school, my mom advised me to go to college for something I was “good at.” And that made sense. It seems…

  • Year in books: 2018

    Every year, I try to compile a ranked list of my reading. Sometimes I even remember to post it publicly! This is by no means precise, but I always have fun remembering all the books I read and looking for any trends (or blind spots). I didn’t read any fiction that blew me away in…

  • Business Diaries #1: where I’m at in January 2019

    This post is part of Business Diaries, where I document my journey to grow a business around my blog The ADHD Homestead. You can read the full series here. I’ll get into the nitty-gritty of my writing business in future posts, but first an introduction: I founded The ADHD Homestead in 2014 with a dedicated…

  • 2018’s surprise successes & 2019’s few-but-mighty goals

    2018’s surprise successes & 2019’s few-but-mighty goals

    Remember that long list of goals I posted last fall? And how I said I usually don’t do big goal lists because I think they’re a terrible idea? I stand by all of it. Maybe it works for some people, but it never has for me. I get excited about the actual goal-setting, but I…