Patty Ryan Lee

Ritual of Work

A spell for choosing tasks

The tasks you do during your work or Pomodoro sessions matter. A lot. Your tasks should be selected and chosen with intent. * What tasks will chip away at your goals? * What tasks are causing anxiety that you could face head-on? * What tasks will make you feel good once they’

Ritual of Work

Productivity Spells for Focused Work Sessions

A spell for handling interruptions Not all interruptions are created equal! There are internal interruptions: * that sudden good idea, * that sudden urge to check Twitter, * that thing you remembered from last week that you forgot about, * the need to go to the bathroom, * a sudden desire to make a coffee

Ritual of Work

Magic & Rituals for Work

When I say ritual you may be picturing large, elaborate, ceremonial-level events. Robes. Candles. Religious archetypes and rules. But ritual, I see, as small repeatable actions. Rituals are opportunities to commit to yourself mind, body, and soul in tiny ways every day, throughout the day. Often, we build upon

Ritual of Work

4 Rules of the Pomodoro® Technique

This post contains affiliate links for products or services I use and/or highly recommend. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive a small commission. There is no charge or increase in price for you. Francesco’s technique has several unbreakable rules

Ritual of Work

Pomodoro® Primer for Magic Makers

The Pomodoro ® Technique is an amazing way to focus your labor for a more productive output. Through detachment from work. To be able to stop working. To work better. Combine it with magic and... look out.

Ritual of Work

Do you audit your business?

An audit is merely an inspection of or examination of something (most often financial.) From our tech to our time, to our content, and even our goals… anything is worth an audit. If it is to change, it must be observed!

Business Tech

5 tech choices that hold you back from success in your business

More often than not, folks come to me thinking they have a tech issue and it turns out to be … so much more.

Brand Guide Notion Template (Free)

This post contains affiliate links for products or services I use and/or highly recommend. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, I will receive a small commission. There is no charge or increase in price for you. Are your brand details scattered to the

Ritual of Work

Rubber Ducking

I’m a web developer. Languages change, ways of programming change, and now… I barely touch code because of WordPress. But one thing that hasn’t changed in my 20+ years is how helpful Rubber Ducking is. When I started in web development, I had my programmer dad to talk

Ritual of Work

Awareness in Business

What are you not aware of in your business?

Email for Witches

5 Myths about Email Segmentation

What do you believe about email segmentation? Just talking about email with my fellow witches lead to me to find five common misconceptions about segmentation and how we need to address these.

Business Tech

5 Things to Back Up before Mercury Goes Retrograde

The ever scary Mercury Retrograde looms... so be prepared. Deep breath. Back everything up. And relax. (This happens a lot, y'all.)

Business Tech

What do you mean it's "not the tech?"

If you are uncertain of where to start, or how to finish your website to a point where you actually enjoy sharing it… it’s probably not the tech. It’s probably you.

From the Desk of Patty Ryan Lee

Shrinking in fear… of success

It’s the last week of 2021 and I don’t know about you but this week is one of those weeks where time moves differently. We’re not quite done with 2021 (despite absolutely feeling done with this year) and we’re not quite ready for 2022 to begin.

Marketing for Witches

"Am I annoying you?"

Annoying someone. That’s what used to worry me every time I talked about what I do. I felt like a damn broken record, repeating the same boring message over and over. Surely I was annoying someone every time I repeated myself. Indeed, by now, you roll your eyes every

Websites for Witches

3 Signs You’re Overthinking Your Website

You’re overthinking what you think your website needs to be, because you’re not focused on what it actually is.

From the Desk of Patty Ryan Lee

A Witchy Niche

Are you considering niching? I struggled with it for years. I fought against it. Railed against the notion! What is niching down? It’s focusing on one area, one market, and going all in. Which is why I fought against it for so long. I like doing too many things!

From the Desk of Patty Ryan Lee

On Slowing Down

My child started school last month. They’ve been home with me since day one, we’ve never had a babysitter outside of grandparents and never more than a few hours. My heart, or rather my undiagnosed postpartum anxiety and depression, wouldn’t allow it. When I started going to

From the Desk of Patty Ryan Lee

Asking for Help is a Journey through Trust

Participating in this month’s Tarot for Growth from @bujowitchcraft on Instagram has really helped me this month in several ways: 1. I’m connecting more with a new deck through everyday use. 2. I’m writing every day. 3. I’m actually diving in and doing “shadow work” in

From the Desk of Patty Ryan Lee

Burnout & Boundaries

Like a lot of adults, I spend a great deal of time doing absolutely nothing on my phone, other than continuously leer at it. Have a spare second? Pick up the phone. Going to the bathroom? Take the phone. I’m not even present with what I’m doing: I

From the Desk of Patty Ryan Lee

I am a witch.

I had always dabbled in the occult, much to the eye-rolling of my parents, and always said my “religion” or “faith” was closest to witch than anything else. Nothing else seemed to fit, despite wanting to have a concrete, unmovable faith and religion in my life. As a young

From the Desk of Patty Ryan Lee

Figuring it Out

In “the professional world,” you will hear that specialization is the end all be all of business. “T” down and dive deep and specialize and niche within that specialty. For me, it’s practical advice, but a nauseating concept.

From the Desk of Patty Ryan Lee

Perfectionism

Perfectionism is something I have fought against, dealt with and agonized over most of my life. The older I get, the more I strive to lean into vulnerability and aim for progress, not perfection. Never have I fought with perfection and the anxiety behind it, then in my art, and