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 […]
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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. […]
How a Conversation with Your Past Self Shows Your Growth in the Gap
Each of us has at some point faced a scenario where we felt inadequate, or not up to the challenge. When confronted with new challenges, it’s not uncommon to doubt your ability, […]
Become a Stronger Leader by Embracing Your Contradictions
A few years ago, I commissioned a painting from a member of our community, Cristina Kramp. In the painting, a woman is basking in the light of the sun, her face tipped back […]
How a Timer Helps You Practice Better Boundaries
If you’re anything like me, you have trouble keeping up with the day as it flies by in front of you. You wake up, scroll through your phone for 20 minutes while […]
Are You Honoring Your Seasonal Energy?
Nature’s seasons hold many lessons, which stand out most clearly in the darkest time of year. While at a conscious level we know that winter turns to spring, and eventually summer, in […]
Belonging Not Burnout
Belonging and meaning are at the core of heart-based leadership. But I never saw clearly how belonging could directly help fight burnout, until we offered a workshop on scaling back from burnout […]
February Planning Tips: How to Plan in Uncertain and Complex Times
Many of us may be wondering right now: where did the last few weeks go and how did we get here? It seems as if we were just setting our goals and […]
What to Do If You’re Stuck in the New Year’s Disillusion Cycle
For a lot of folks, the end of January means guilty feelings and disappointment when we realize we haven’t yet radically transformed in the three to four weeks since the New Year. […]
Heart Knowing
At some point in most of our lives, we experience the difference between “knowing” at a mind or brain level and knowing a truth in our hearts. That difference, and the ability […]
Empower Your Team (and Yourself) by Asking for Help
Ever since I was a child, I’ve put the needs of others before my own. I’m a Type Two on the Enneagram — the Helper — and I’ve always been highly sensitive […]
Block Those Notifications or How to Better Protect Your Attention Span
Do you ever get started on a project only to be interrupted five minutes later by a notification? That notification leads down a social media spiral, from which you emerge only several […]
How to Back a Kickstarter Campaign
[Editors note: Update August 2022 – the Momentum app launched on June 1, 2022, and subscriptions are available with a 30-day free trial! Get Momentum today!] — What is crowdfunding? And why […]
An Introduction to Productivity at Productive Flourishing
As you might guess by our name, we know a thing or two about productivity. So much so that we have tons and tons of resources about productivity, planning, time management, and […]