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 […]
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Is It Time to Rethink Your Routines?
Use the 4Rs Framework for Your Routines Audit Routines. We all have them, both for work/business and for personal life. While we spend a lot of time at PF talking about projects, […]
Launching Better Team Habits on Substack
I’m equal parts excited and trepidatious to announce that I’ve started a new publication on Substack called Better Team Habits. As I mentioned in my first post there, the intent is to […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Three Delegation Skills to Get Your New Hires Contributing Right Away
After weeks — or maybe even months — of sifting through candidates, methodically hosting interview after interview, and finally narrowing your search down to the one right person, you’ve found your new […]
6 Ways to Level Up Your Leadership
There comes a point during your work for a company — one that you know you want to stick with and grow with — when you feel prepared to take on more […]
3 Ways to Overcome Business-Owner Burnout
Does your business look different than it did a year ago? How about two years ago? And, does it look different than it did six months ago? What about just a quarter […]
#ThanksCOVID Part 6: Introducing Our New CMO, Cory Huff
In the previous post of our #ThanksCOVID/BigNews series, I shared that the pressures of COVID-19 kept us in startup mode long enough for us to see that it was time to develop […]
How to Use the Five Keys to Overcome the Air Sandwich
This is the third post in our three-part series covering the air sandwich. You can read part 1, “The Air Sandwich: Why Your Big Picture and Day-to-Day Reality Don’t Link Up,”, and […]
The Five Keys to Overcoming the Air Sandwich
This is the second post in our three-part series covering the air sandwich. Be sure to read part 1, “The Air Sandwich: Why Your Big Picture and Day-to-Day Reality Don’t Link Up.” […]
The Air Sandwich: Why Your Big Picture and Day-to-Day Reality Don’t Link Up
One of the reasons your best work might not be getting done is that your day-to-day life doesn’t align with your vision and goals. You feel strain when you’re doing a lot […]
Busy by Default
Most of us are quite familiar with busy-ness. While we want full, flourishing lives, we often don’t recognize when we have gotten past the point of being full — when we do […]
What My Shoulder Injury Taught Me About Solving Business Problems
“Is it the pushups? It has to be the pushups.” If you’d been inside my head a few days ago, that’s the conversation you would have heard. See, for the past couple […]
How Can Feedback Help You Make Better Quality Decisions?
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jacquette M. Timmons. On December 5, 2019, I was in the iHeart studio recording a special show about overspending during the holiday season with The […]
25 Lessons in Business (After 25 Years)
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Lisa Robbin Young. ’Tis the season for annual reviews and reflections on the last decade. The beginning of the year for me, however, always […]
4 Reasons Why Coworking Is on the Rise
In case you’ve been living under a rock, WeWork, once touted as one of the world’s most valuable startups, is in trouble. From a spectacularly bungled IPO to the ouster of its […]