August is full of mixed messages. Go into any store at the moment and you’ll see beach balls, swimsuits, and coolers competing for shelf space with notebooks, backpacks, and back-to-school supplies. August […]
Productivity
🌊 Riding the Wave: An Actionable Guide to Deep Work and Sustaining Flow State💡
The current focus on organizational innovation and how to get teams to be more creative isn’t misplaced — a recent survey pegged creativity as the most in-demand skill for leaders. Yet creativity […]
Relaxing Into Risk
Most Thursday mornings you’ll find me in a co-working session with members of the Productive Flourishing Academy. Part of the routine in our coworking sessions is to start off with a word […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Let the Process Be a Process — And Don’t Forget to Play
When people come to me for advice, certain themes tend to come up time and again from different voices, across livelihoods, and types of projects. Whether it be business thought leaders, writers, […]