As I said in my keynote at Type A Parent last year, if you’re going to succeed as a busy, multitasking, parent-slash-blogger, you need to focus your energies. We simply cannot do it all.

I outlined 10 key points to keep us focused, and one of my favorites:

Be annoyed less.

It takes time and energy to be furious at every “Dear Mommyblogger” salutation. At every “Dear Gloria” salutation. (Huh?) At “Please fill out this 16 page form so we can determine whether you’re qualified to receive a free $.99 cent app download for beta testing.” I’ve learned to use the delete button liberally, or when needed, filter all emails from that domain directly into trash. (Thank you Gmail!)

That spam button also comes in pretty handy.

After all, time spent being annoyed is time that could be better spent creating, connecting, supporting…you know. Blogging.

(Blogging? Remember blogging? That thing a lot of us did before Twitter came along?)

Even so, I’m going to break my rule and get annoyed here for a moment. (What? I’m human!)  Continue reading →