I’m writing this in September so I’m about three or four months ahead of the barrage of content that typically shows up in early January around “New Year! New You!” To be […]
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How to Read the Label When You’re Stuck Inside the Jar
We all know the feeling of struggling with a problem or decision where the solution seemed impossible for us, yet obvious when someone else pointed it out. I know I’m raising my […]
3 Principles That Got Me Through a Book Launch While I Had COVID
Imagine spending two years getting ready to share a body of work that you’re excited about and believe in, only to have to spend two of the most important weeks of the […]
How to Gracefully Transition from Summer Back to Work
August is full of mixed messages. Go into any store at the moment and you’ll see beach balls, swimsuits, and coolers competing for shelf space with notebooks, backpacks, and back-to-school supplies. August […]
🌊 Riding the Wave: An Actionable Guide to Deep Work and Sustaining Flow State💡
The current focus on organizational innovation and how to get teams to be more creative isn’t misplaced — a recent survey pegged creativity as the most in-demand skill for leaders. Yet creativity […]
What to Do with Your “Not Now” Projects
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been sharing tips to close out the first half of the year — and have been following them as a team, too. If you’ve been doing […]
6 Rules for Planning for a Major Milestone (Like Graduation or a Career Shift)
This time of year is ripe with warm weather and many of us coming off the back of some major life transitions. In you or your family it may look like a […]
Relaxing Into Risk
Most Thursday mornings you’ll find me in a co-working session with members of the Productive Flourishing Academy. Part of the routine in our coworking sessions is to start off with a word […]
Permission to Summer (Whatever That Means for You)
We’re probably all in need of a break about now. And there’s nothing like the heat of the summer months to underscore the point. Statistics confirm we’re overdue for a break. This […]
Retreat to Sustain Your Business and Yourself
Charlie and I often get questions about the “whys” of what we do, both on the personal and the business side and how we blend them to take care of ourselves and […]
Breadcrumbs: How to Find Your Way Back to Your Project
Consider two truths: (1) it’s usually easy to tell what the next step of a project is at the end of a working session, and (2) it can be incredibly hard to […]
What Do You Need To Let Go Of?
This morning, I realized how much of my current suffering is grieving the lost time from when Dad passed about a year ago. I had already incurred enough distraction and time debt […]
How to Tame Those Gazillion Ideas
Summertime can present an interesting tension for many of us. On the one hand, we spend more time enjoying the world and the people we love, away from screens. On the other […]
Owning Your Power at Any Age
Our culture glorifies youth. Even the word “old” is one we would prefer to avoid. Negative messages about age come at us our entire lives. Throughout my life, I have heard people […]
Boundaries & Presence: The Myth of Multitasking and What It Costs Us
As much as we tell ourselves that multitasking is productive, we know at an intuitive level that it’s not. The lie of multitasking is that, if we just do it well enough, […]
Is It Time to Rethink Your Routines?
Use the 4Rs Framework for Your Routines Audit Routines. We all have them, both for work/business and for personal life. While we spend a lot of time at PF talking about projects, […]
Launching Better Team Habits on Substack
I’m equal parts excited and trepidatious to announce that I’ve started a new publication on Substack called Better Team Habits. As I mentioned in my first post there, the intent is to […]
Reboot Your Week with a Mid-Week Reassessment
Much like the mid-month review is a great time to assess progress and reconfigure your plans for the remaining weeks of the month, doing a mid-week reassessment has many of the same […]