What Is Connection?

We are distracted. As slaves to the Tyranny of Urgency, we mistake being busy and stressed for important work.  We run on the hamster wheel, doing more work, but not necessarily work that matters. Don’t believe me? Try to describe your biggest professional achievements this year, the ones of which you are most proud. No, … Read more

The Time is NOW! Order Limitless Today.

Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life by Laura Gassner Otting

It’s finally here!  No, not my birthday (though, yes, it’s my birthday!) It’s the other birthday: the birth of my book launch!  Today is both my birthday AND the official launch, six weeks to publication, of the pre-order campaign for my book Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve your Own Path, and Live Your Best … Read more

Badass Author Bookclub

As I prepare for the launch of MY forthcoming book LIMITLESS, I’m re-reading so many good books. So, I want to share the wisdom from my nerd-crush authors: Brené Brown, Alison Levine, Jen Sincero and Carey Lohrenz FEARLESS LEADERSHIP by Carey Lohrenz: Carey is a pretty big badass. What’s amazing about Carey is she takes everything … Read more

My Long Distance Love Affair

I’m in a long distance relationship. A million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and man had not yet created fire, I was in a long-distance relationship with an adorable, kind, brilliant boyfriend. He was in Washington, DC, and I was in Boston. And every weekend, he would fly to me, I would fly … Read more

You Aren’t That Important

“You’re just not that important.” This was the best and hardest piece of advice I’ve ever unceremoniously received. It hurt. It was true. And it was a watershed moment. I’ve written blogs about saying yes. I’ve written blogs about saying no. The truth is that it doesn’t matter if you say yes or no until you decide what the hell you … Read more

Don’t Eat the Frog First!

I’m often asked how long it took me to write Limitless: How to Ignore Everybody, Carve Your Own Path, and Live Your Best Life.  The answer is that I wrote the main corpus in about three weeks. This, of course, shocks people. The more complicated answer is that, while it took me three weeks to … Read more

What if you didn’t show up to work tomorrow?

We’ve all laid in bed having those fantasies. No, not *those* fantasies!  (Well, maybe those too…) I’m talking about the ones that happen in the morning after your alarm pulls you out of your sweet, sweet slumber.  The alarm rings out, jarring you awake, and your very first thought is, “Ugh, what if I didn’t … Read more