How Your Goals Are Holding You Back and What You Can Do Instead There’s a pervasive notion in our culture that the way to move life and work forward is through setting and achieving goals. Not only should you set specific goals but you should write them down as well. A Harvard Study is cited as the reason behind this goal writing strategy – and it
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
https://youtu.be/SxrxXB8Ze4E Click on the video or here to watch The Two Ways We Get Things Done (and Why One Works Better). In this quick video [4:31] you will discover: How we work hard to find the "right" thinking so that we can get the "right" behavior. An invisible way you are already getting things done - that doesn't involve a lot of
Whether you are a student cramming last-minute for an exam or a professional buried in overdue reports – the chatter floating through your mind can often sound like: “Why did I wait until the last minute to get this done?!” “How do I get myself to stop procrastinating and start ahead of time?” “When am I ever going to learn?” This line of
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
How to Start Any Project Without Discipline or Motivation If I could sell “discipline” and “motivation” as a pill or potion – I’d be a gazillionaire. Everyone wants the good stuff and they want it now. I can understand this desire. Discipline and motivation make a compelling argument: The more you have the more you’d do what you know you need to do.
How to get unstuck is a common theme among those I am fortunate enough to work with. People can show up feeling stuck in all sorts of ways – from procrastination, self-sabotage, and anxious or depressive tendencies to being consistently stressed, busy, and overwhelmed.
Fortunately, regardless of where you are stuck, how deeply you feel stuck, or
After a recent presentation the majority of the questions I received were about how to get themselves to get their work done - without having to push so hard. As a core element of the work I do, I’ve written on this topic before. But I’d like to share how my approach to behavior change has evolved over the years. Following are several ways that you
https://youtu.be/gMaLBjEw_hE Click on the video about to check out this unconventional approach I discovered that has helped me and my clients dramatically reduce or end procrastination and self-sabotage entirely. In this video [5:20] you will discover: How we innocently make things way more difficult than they need to be - and what it takes to
https://youtu.be/cxclZDpiY4k Here is a quick video on how to eliminate a lot of anxiety in under a minute. Anxiety has a funny way of convincing us that we need to do more and move faster in order to get out of the uncomfortable feeling of anxiety. This can naturally lead to a lot of stress. For others anxiety can have paralyzing effect where we
