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 […]
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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 […]
How Does Your Team Handle Commitment Tension?
Think of two standing commitments most of us have, or aspire to have: To honor the commitments we make to ourselves and others To honor the commitment to do what matters most […]
Is Being On the Hook Serving You?
We need to start unpacking what it means when we’re ‘on the hook’, or when reality and what you think you should be doing diverge.
Momentum Has Launched on Product Hunt!
Momentum helps people who need a tool that helps them focus on what matters most. Now we’re launching Momentum on Product Hunt.
Improve Your Team Communication with Repetition: The Rule of 7
As the manuscript deadline for Team Habits approaches (just a few weeks left now!), Charlie is heads down on writing, along with everything else he has going on. For Angela, it’s been […]
Where Are the 2023 Momentum Planners?
In case you weren’t with us then – or weren’t getting our emails prior to our switch to ConvertKit – we moved out of beta for Momentum in June. Momentum is the […]
Did Your Team Consciously Decide How to Work Together?
Probably not …and that’s why it’s interesting… Take a second to think about something your team regularly does well, and something your team regularly does that frustrates you. Here’s the question for […]
5 Questions to Reflect on Your Summer
I’m back after some unplugged few weeks off and I’m happy to say that Angela and I finally unlocked how to have a great staycation. It’s been an elusive endeavor as a […]
Reeling, Organizing, and Marching are All Distinct Projects
I don’t yet have words about the Roe v. Wade ruling on Friday, so emoji will have to do: 😱🤬🖕🏽👺💪🏽✊🏽❤️ Actually, that’s not true. I have about fourteen essays in me, with […]
World Productivity Day 2022
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
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 […]