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 […]
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Before the Crisis, There Was Abundance
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
“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?
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
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
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
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
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
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. […]