The holiday season is a time of year when we ask people for lists of things they want that can be purchased as gifts. Making lists of things we don’t have but we want is a somewhat regular exercise for many of us. But life coach Brooke Castillo encourages us to also regularly make lists of what we want and we already have.
Read MoreIn Robin Sharma’s book Who Will Cry When You Die? Life Lessons From the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, the author encourages readers to do something kind for a stranger every day.
Read MoreOne of my favorite gratitude practices is picking an activity or object and tasking my brain to think of all the people who had to pitch in to make it a possibility.
Read MoreDuring this time of reflection, I want to extend my sincerest appreciation to you, our readers: past, present, and future; near and far.
Read MoreOn a recent podcast episode, life coach Brooke Castillo was encouraging people to participate in a concept she calls “deciding again.” As Brooke explains, every year, she urges people to decide everything in your life again – who you want to be, your goals, where you live, how you dress, what you look like.
Read MoreIn a recent interview, Ed Mylett spoke with successful entrepreneur Jesse Itzler. During their discussion Jesse relayed the story of being in a meeting with one of his advisors, and the advisor asked him, “If you could leave one of two things to your kids, all this money or a wealth of experiences, what would you rather leave?” And Jesse answered, “Of course I want to leave the experiences.”
Read MoreI’m eternally attracted to ideas and practices that bring more light and love into this world. In the book Bring Out the Magic in Your Mind, author Al Koran urges us to bless our money.
Read MoreIt’s the spookiest time of year! Halloween lore is full of stories about ghosts and goblins and other monsters. But in our day-to-day lives, it’s not ghosts and goblins that scare us.
Read MoreThe alternative paths that I’ve been writing about resonate with me, and they help me to feel more myself when I follow them. But if your path takes you in different directions, then your preferences are valid. We are all unique. So the most important permission you should be granted is to be unapologetically you.
Read MoreIn last week’s blog post, I referenced a recent Marie Forleo podcast in which she shared some of her top time management tips. Another one of her tips is to create before you consume.
Read MoreIn a recent podcast, Marie Forleo shared some of her tips for how she manages her time. One of her tips is to schedule your priorities, including your personal priorities. Marie says, “If it’s not scheduled, it’s not real.”
Read MoreOur culture inundates us with messages of more. We’re told we should always be striving for more money, better homes, more expensive cars, more luxurious clothing, more opinions, more networking acquaintances, more power, more rewards, more acknowledgement, more, more, MORE! But Ed Mylett and Harvard Professor, Arthur Brooks, had a different point of view during a recent interview.
Read MoreToday is the first day of fall y’all!
Read MoreMany of us live in a world littered with broken promises. We vow to get our kids their favorite fast food in order to make them behave one moment and then hope they are distracted and don’t remember the pledge in the future. Buddy the Elf would probably yell at us, “You sit on a throne of lies!”
Read MoreOne of Greg McKeown’s most notable quotes is, “If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.” He learned this lesson the hard way. Greg often tells the story of the day when one of his children was born. He had a professional meeting set up for that day, and after much tortured consideration, he ended up attending the meeting. It was there at that meeting on the day his child was coming into the world that he realized he had made the wrong choice.
Read MoreThe oracle, Greg McKeown, wants us to stop equating EASY and LAZY.
Easy ≠ Lazy
Greg says, “Ask yourself, ‘What’s the simplest way to achieve this result?’ When we remove the complexity, even the slightest effort can move what matters forward.”
Read MoreWe human beings have a really hard time saying no to anything. We fear missing out on opportunities and hurting people’s feelings. But inevitably, we end up saying yes to so many things that we become overburdened and burned out. But saying yes to everything is not the only way we can proceed.
Read MoreIn last week’s blog post, I introduced my counterculture oracle, Greg McKeown. In a recent Instagram post, Greg asserted, “The key to networking is to stop networking. 99 percent of networking is a waste of time. It’s fake. It’s self-interested. People are always looking over your shoulder to see who else is there. People put on a show. Nobody likes it.”
Read MoreOver the past few months, I’ve been writing a “permission granted” blog series. In the series, I’ve been pointing out countercultural mentalities and habits that successful people swear are part of their path to excellence. I’ve had a lot of influences who have taught me to be brave in living a life that feels authentic to me. One of my favorite mentors is Greg McKeown.
Read MoreThrough the years, I have heard countless colleagues and clients complain about the amount of time they spend on administrative work. They have jobs to do that often require strategic, specialized thinking and work, but they feel held back from actually tackling that work due to their email inboxes and other busy bureaucratic tasks. Unless you purposely restrain administrative work, it will often expand to highjack every minute of every day. So introducing constraints into your work day is a way to wrestle back your time.
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