Charlie and I often get questions about the “whys” of what we do, both on the personal and the business side and how we blend them to take care of ourselves and […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Find More Fun and Engagement During Your Next PF Event
Building a success pack is an essential part of getting your most important projects done. That’s mostly because no matter the nature of your project, you’re going to be more capable of […]
A Push to Get Clearer About Your Pull Factors
All too often, we decide to do things based on push factors, but it’s our pull factors that keep us going when the new devils who accompany the new levels show up. […]
Self-Care Is Queen
What have you done to take care of yourself today? In a world that seems to never sleep it can be a challenge to hit the pause button and take notice of […]
When Does It Hit You?
How long does it take for something that touched your heart to really hit you? For me, it’s almost always time-delayed by at least three or four days. Sometimes it’s three or […]
In Times Like These
So much of the last few weeks has revolved around COVID-19, but our lives are much bigger than that. Elders are passing. Babies are being born. Lovers are meeting, breaking up, and […]
Why I Haven’t Turned Our Planners into an App
[Note: You might be aware that I’ve changed my mind some about converting Momentum Planners into an app, and that we released said app, Momentum, in June 2022. After you read this […]
What Food Carts Teach Us About Personal Development
For dinner this evening, I ate two burritos in what used to be an abandoned parking lot and commercial space six months ago. What used to be an eyesore has been converted […]
Are You Adding Laugh Tracks to Your Daily Experiences?
In the early days of television, many shows were being produced in front of live audiences, so comedies did not need to rely on laugh tracks for something to be funny. We’re […]
Failure Is Like Prom Night
When was the last time that you thought about your prom night? If you’re over, say, twenty years old, it’s probably been awhile unless you happened to stumble over something that made […]
Default Social Gatherings Make Thriving Easier
I spent the afternoon with some of our neighbors because another of our neighbors organized an Easter Egg hunt in their backyard. Two of the families had moved to the block in […]
A Month of No Hiding
Many people start blogging because it’s a great way to share your thoughts and yourself with the world. There comes a point, though, where it’s really easy to hide behind the medium. […]