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World Productivity Day 2022

By Charlie Gilkey on June 20, 2022 Leave a Comment
Last updated on June 22, 2022

Person writing on the Weekly Momentum Planner

It’s World Productivity Day, and, honestly, I’ve never really known what to do for this “holiday.” It seems like one of those days that’s made up just to sell something or have […]

Before the Crisis, There Was Abundance

By Charlie Gilkey on June 14, 2022 Leave a Comment

Person writing on the Weekly Momentum Planner

A recent conversation with Steven Kotler for the podcast (coming soon, y’all) added some additional heat to some of the slow-cooking thoughts I’ve had on abundance over the last couple of quarters. […]

How Much Is Indecision Costing You?

By Charlie Gilkey on June 6, 2022 Leave a Comment
Last updated on June 14, 2022

Person writing on the Weekly Momentum Planner

How much is indecision draining your mental and emotional energy? I don’t think we consider that question enough when we’re in a stalled decision-making scenario. Too often, we’re in a position where we’re […]

June Planning Tips: Tactics to Overcome Your Overcommitment Habit

By Osheyana Martinez on June 1, 2022 Leave a Comment

summer planning

There tends to be a point in the year, often arriving around June, where we have too many ideas, too many commitments, and we’ve filled up our five project slots for every […]

What’s the Real Goal Here?

By Maghan Haggerty on May 26, 2022 Leave a Comment

daily writing goal

Last month I shared how I had been struggling to establish a daily writing practice. It’s a goal that I’d put on my monthly project list again and again but never seem […]

Don’t Confuse the Project with the Result

By Charlie Gilkey on May 19, 2022 Leave a Comment
Last updated on June 20, 2022

OKR

One of my executive coaching clients asked for some guidance recently to keep her company’s OKR (Objectives and Key Results) initiative from going stale. Our work together had started with an OKR […]

May 2022 Planning Tips: Clear the Decks for Summer

By Steve Arensberg on May 3, 2022 Leave a Comment

May

May has always felt like a month of transitions for me. Growing up in Michigan, it was the first month we were pretty sure winter wouldn’t dump snow one last time in […]

Why Getting Clarity About Our Care Work Is Valuable

By Liana Cassar on April 29, 2022 1 Comment
Last updated on May 12, 2022

Care work

Searching for a job or finding a new client project is profoundly different from the way we make our way to caregiving roles. Raising a child or taking care of an elder […]

A SMART Goal Is a Meaningful One

By Maghan Haggerty on April 15, 2022 2 Comments
Last updated on June 23, 2022

smart goals

Is anyone else still in denial that it’s April? In a recent Pulse, our newsletter, Charlie talked about his desire to skip over April 1st to avoid unnecessary April Fools’ jokes. The […]

Is What You’re Doing Telling, Teaching, or Training?

By Charlie Gilkey on April 8, 2022 Leave a Comment
Last updated on April 13, 2022

Training

Lots of folks say they love “teaching,” but, in reality, they love telling. That’s mostly because they love the attention and praise that comes from telling. Telling, teaching, and training are three […]

April 2022 Planning Tips: How Do You Task on the Daily?

By Steve Arensberg on April 4, 2022 Leave a Comment

april planning

Even though the week is still my preferred planning horizon for getting stuff done, since we released Momentum in beta, the daily planner is growing on me. As I planned my Monday, […]

A Look Inside the Start Finishing Field Guide: On the Path to Your Best Work

By Maghan Haggerty on March 25, 2022 Leave a Comment
Last updated on June 22, 2022

project start finishing field guide

“Projects are mirrors because they reflect back to us what’s really going on in our inner and outer worlds; projects are bridges because it’s only by doing them that we create the […]

Is Your Goal-Setting Including Your Dreams?

By Charlie Gilkey on March 18, 2022 Leave a Comment

goal-setting and dreams

As you can probably imagine, I end up in a lot of goal-setting conversations with our clients, PFA members, and team. I love these conversations because of how much they reveal about […]

A Simple Exercise for Burnout Recovery

By Angela Wheeler on March 11, 2022 Leave a Comment
Last updated on June 20, 2022

woman burnout recovery

Last summer Charlie and I led a webinar to help leaders identify and scale back burnout on their teams. The experience, and gathering so much fresh input, was enlightening to those involved […]

4 Ways to Lead in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex & Ambiguous (VUCA) World

By Charlie Gilkey on March 4, 2022 1 Comment

vuca world

Considering the last two years of COVID, George Floyd’s death and the Black Lives Matter movement, the capitol riots, and now the war in Ukraine — it’s clear that we live in […]

March 2022 Planning Tips: Remember Why You Started 

By Mary Clare O'Donnell on March 2, 2022 1 Comment

achieving goals

If you were to approach most people and ask what specific action would bring them closer to their goals, my sense is most would have a ready answer.  The steps required to […]

10 Reasons You’re Procrastinating Right Now

By Charlie Gilkey on February 23, 2022 Leave a Comment
Last updated on March 1, 2022

Knowing what needs to be done is only part of the fuel that helps us move a project to finished. That doesn’t take into account all the underlying obstacles (many of our […]

What Traumatic Brain Injury Has Taught Me about Self-Compassion

By Angela Wheeler on February 17, 2022 1 Comment
Last updated on February 22, 2022

woman showing self-compassion

We know statistically people forget more than they think they do. Our bias is to believe that we’re mostly on target, correct, or in the right, when it comes to our memory. […]

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