The claustrophobia was coming in waves. We’d been sitting on the tarmac for hours and I really wanted to get off the plane. So far I had been able to ride through the intermittent panic by distracting myself with repeated games of solitaire on my iPad. There were a lot of thoughts swirling in my head… “Think of a spacious, happy,
I love working with procrastinators. Everyone has their own reasons why they procrastinate. Some of the more common causes I hear are fear of success or failure, a desire for perfection, indecision paralysis, or just not being clear on where to start. All of which can surely play a role in developing a habit of procrastination. And yet after
I had a great question from a participant at a recent Meetup Group: How do you know if you're doing enough? This man had a lot of evidence that he wasn't doing enough to get things done. To move himself and his projects forward. But the more we discussed it the more I realized something: This question showing up in his mind was his biggest piece of
https://youtu.be/PIV8WscbE7c In this week's video I tackle a really common challenge - not just for my clients but for most of us navigating this thing called Life: The Tendency to Overthink. Humans have the capacity to think. It is pretty extraordinary when you step back to consider this power. Even beyond what we think about - the fact that we think
I was asked recently to articulate the biggest change I've experienced as a result of understanding the Three Principles Paradigm. In this 3 minute video I do my best to capture what I think has made the biggest impact on my life and the lives of my clients: Our Capacity For Insight. This understanding helped me see I could live life more freely
For a long time, I focused my coaching practice around helping people with time management and organization. From the beginning, I was less interested in giving people strategies and much more interested in helping them see how they find their own innate strategies. Teaching people to fish versus giving them fish made a lot more sense to me. What I
Getting rid of negative thinking is the current über popular self-development strategy of the day. It looks logical - we'll feel better if we get rid of all the bad thoughts in our minds. If we can keep our thoughts positive we'll be more positive. Avoiding negative thoughts has become a cultural obsession. Ironically, we are pretty negative about
It sounds reasonable that you would need to have clarity about how to start a project before actually starting it. But I haven't found this to be true. In fact I think the opposite is much more true. Back in 2007, I started out as a professional organizer. This was the focus of my business before I dove headlong into productivity and procrastination
Click on the video to discover a new twist on how to deal with uncomfortable feelings. It's that time of year filled with everything from birthdays to graduations, baby showers, and weddings. There always seems to be a lot going on. It can be easy to get caught up in the busyness of it all - and I definitely do - but I also love it when life
You’ve heard it all before: “Stay positive!” “Don’t let negative thoughts bring you down!” “Focus on the good or else you’ll create more bad!” Yikes. What a drag. In my experience, this intense focus on forcing positive thinking accomplishes two things: we become more fearful of our thinking and subsequently we have to work harder at controlling
