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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 […]
Does Your Team Really Need a Daily Stand-Up Meeting?
Most daily stand-up meetings make whatever they’re trying to solve worse as a result of eating up team time and focus. First, let’s look at real meeting math. The daily stand-up isn’t […]
Change Work Is Strategic Work
How much time do you spend each week working through the important, deep, and future-building work? How much time could have been spent on the significant, strategic change work that often gets […]
What to Do When Work Intensity Is the Problem
A client recently wanted to problem-solve for working four days a week, but when she started explaining the problem, it wasn’t about the load of her days or how many days a […]
Self-Worth and the Floors and Ceilings Metaphor
I’d like to float the idea that self-worth is a fundamentally different thing from self-esteem or confidence. People talk about these ideas as if they were each one and the same. But […]
How to Focus on What’s Most Important
Recently I joined my friend Eric Zimmer on his podcast, The One You Feed, to discuss how to focus our lives on what’s most important to us, and what blocks us from […]
Using Focus Blocks To Boost Your Team’s Capacity
If you’ve been overwhelmed by trying to figure out how much capacity your team has, and whether they’re focused on what matters most, here’s my take: looking at project lists or time […]
Strategies For Thriving In A Remote Workplace With ADD & ADHD
Learning earlier this year that I had Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) changed a lot for me. I finally realized that I was not a “bad worker” or didn’t have a “work ethic”. […]
Careful What You Wish For: Company Goals Create Company Culture
Business owners and managers know they’re supposed to set challenging goals to motivate themselves and their teams. Most often, business goals prioritize sales targets, profit margins, and productivity. And as a business […]
Is the Scope of Your World Too Big?
I ran across a few lines from Co-Active Leadership* that have been working through my soul for the last few weeks. In Co-Active Leadership, responsibility has two important parts: Being response-able: able […]