Ready or not, here it comes; the holiday season is once again upon us! Unfortunately, the season centered around good tidings of comfort and joy can often feel like quite the opposite. […]
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Do You Have Trouble Moving Projects Forward?
While it may seem like working on several projects in parallel is a good way to keep things going, we’re often better off to move fewer projects further than juggling more for […]
How Leaving Social Media and Taking Control of My Content Improved My Business… and My Life
This is a guest post by Jamie Teasdale. I wanted to do it in 2017. I even wrote about my disillusionment with social media and the luster wearing off back then, but […]
Do You Resist Projects That Are Easy?
A lot of people struggle not because they can’t imagine how what they’re struggling with could be easy, but because they’re uncomfortable with it being easy. So I ask: what’s wrong with […]
Get Into the Habit of Habit Streaks
We’re told over and over about the importance of creating healthy habits — you don’t need us to remind you yet again. You know intuitively, deep down, what you need to do […]
Unleash Yourself: How To Make Your Next Interview Your Best Interview
All too often, we make ourselves fit available options rather than making options fit us. It’s true of job-searching, partner-seeking, or life-building. I believe that we are better served when we flip […]
How Boundaries Prevent Burnout Before It Starts
We live in a society that’s constantly busy. Whether we’re dealing with the stress of managing our ever-changing schedules or just the general ups and downs of life in the working world, […]
3 Ways to Deal with Your Crisco Watermelons
Most collaborative projects start out simple enough but somehow can end up getting slipperier and more chaotic as time goes on. Here are 3 things that you can keep in mind when […]
October 2021 Planning Tips: Treat Yourself to Planning Ahead
Welcome to October, the last full working month of 2021! No, it’s not an early Halloween trick. November and December, plump with parties and cozy Crock Pots, have only about six workweeks […]
4 Statements Leaders Need to Be Saying More Often
A client of mine is going through a catalytic shift in her career where she’s bringing on someone to manage her current business while she’s moving on to manage someone else’s business. […]
Stuck on the Intro? Write it Last.
Don’t let the blank screen and ghosts of deleted intro paragraphs haunt you and keep you stuck. You don’t have to start writing from your intro; you can start in the middle […]
Launch Your New Career: Leading Turnarounds and How It Shaped My Career
Leading through a turnaround or big mess scenario creates springboards for your career. In today’s atomic essay, I share the two most significant big mess scenarios that shaped my career. In The […]
How to Be Consistent in Your Business in an Unpredictable World
This is a guest post from Sarah K. Peck of Startup Parent. “You’ve got to be consistent!” rave many productivity experts. “You won’t be successful unless you’re consistent.” So much of the […]
Work From Home Workers Need Nudges To Go Home
When you’re working on-site or in the office, there are lots of cues and norms about when it’s time to go home. Without those cues and norms, WFH workers are struggling to […]
The One Where We Brag for You: PF Community Wins
When you’ve been helping people finish their most important projects for 12+ years, you get to see some really neat things happen. It’s a LOT of fun to see what people are […]
37 Universal Verbs to Use for Your To-Do Lists
A common trip-up when people are making their to-do lists is that they’re either not using verbs in front of action items or the verbs aren’t working for them. In an earlier […]
How Much of Your Team’s Time Is Spent Looking for (Metaphorical) Keys?
Many owners and leaders avoid making SOPs, checklists, and workflows because it takes time from doing the actual work. But when you look at what doing the actual work entails, it’s spending […]
How MailBrew Has Helped My Digital-Primary Reading Practice
The internet is massive (to say the least), with information swirling around in an infinite number of places. Even if you’ve narrowed down your favorite social platforms and websites to a couple […]