Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash Have you ever said to yourself “I want to do X, but I’m just not motivated?” or “I need to motivate” or “I’ll do it when I get motivated”. Well, I call “bullshit”. Or, actually, science called bullshit. Lots of research suggests that, while…

Often when I first meet someone who is considering working with me, they tell me that one of their goals is to “figure out how to do everything”. They’ve heard you can do it all. They want to do it all. They believe there’s a magic bullet out there somewhere…

Sometimes, you don’t act in your own self-interest. Sometimes, you self-sabotage. If you’re lucky, you have some awareness of when this is happening. You can do a little post-mortem. And, next time, you can make a different choice. But sometimes, you engage in behaviors that are just a little bit…

One of my clients said something to me the other day that I thought was pretty darn profound, and I instantly knew I wanted to share it with you. Here’s what he said: “Organization IS self-care”. Now first, let’s take a step back. When you think of “self care”, what…

There’s a category of stuff (several, in fact) that I bet you put off, you procrastinate, you kick down the road, because you think you don’t have time. And, yet, for many of those things, the opposite is actually true. You don’t have time NOT to do them. There are…

You’re successful. You’re ambitious. You want to “make it”. Hell, you ARE making it! But, at what cost? So many of the folks I work with can be described as “very successful people who got there by brute force”. By working harder. By working longer. By outworking the competition. And…

I’m back! Did you miss me? Confused? I bet you didn’t realize I was even gone. And why would you? I scheduled out blog posts to be published on a weekly cadence during my absence precisely so you wouldn’t miss me. BUT, I’ve been on a sabbatical. In fact, I…

This is the sixth in our series about habits. If you want to check out the others, you can find them here, here, here , here and here. Sometimes you have the best of intentions for building a new habit, but at the end of the day, you crawl into…

This is the fifth in our series about habits. If you want to check out the others, you can find them here, here, here and here. Ever heard of “Snapchat Streaks”? Does Duolingo email you to tell you you’re about to lose your streak if you don’t practice Spanish right…