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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 […]
June Planning Tips: Tactics to Overcome Your Overcommitment Habit
There tends to be a point in the year, often arriving around June, where we have too many ideas, too many commitments, and we’ve filled up our five project slots for every […]
Don’t Confuse the Project with the Result
One of my executive coaching clients asked for some guidance recently to keep her company’s OKR (Objectives and Key Results) initiative from going stale. Our work together had started with an OKR […]
May 2022 Planning Tips: Clear the Decks for Summer
May has always felt like a month of transitions for me. Growing up in Michigan, it was the first month we were pretty sure winter wouldn’t dump snow one last time in […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Momentum Kickstarter Is Live Today
Our Kickstarter campaign for Momentum – the planner app that matches how and when you work – is now live. Be sure to check out our Kickstarter page and back the campaign […]
January 2022 Planning Tips: Leading Off the Year Strong
We are in that quintessential moment in time where we all seem to be stepping back and evaluating priorities, all in the hopes to move forward with refreshed goals outlined for the […]
November 2021 Planning Tips: Get Into the Habit of Holiday Self Care
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. […]
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 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 […]
How to Find the Right Level of Success for Your Next Project
As you’re thinking about that next big project you want to tackle in 2020, it’s important to consider just how big that big project will be. Which means you’ll need to define […]
Core Conversations on Start Finishing: 3 Helpful Ways to Maximize Your Recovery Blocks
Editor’s Note: This is a continuation of our core conversations on Charlie’s book Start Finishing. In our last conversation, Rachael Ridenour talked about how to see your projects as mirrors and how to process […]