How many days until you get to escape your own schedule? If you are counting, that countdown is data. Your current setup does not recharge you, so recovery got outsourced to a retreat or a vacation. I love retreats. I use them for focused time. I do not need them to recharge anymore, because my
Self-Care Is Not Selfish. It Is the Example You Set
Your leadership team is learning how to treat their own capacity by watching you. Every time you skip the break, the quiet hour, or the thing that recharges you, you show them what a leader does. They copy it. So do your employees. So do your children. They are not reading your values statement. They
Self-Care Is A Top Priority for the Unconventional Mind
You cannot care for other people when you have nothing left to give. You have heard that a whole bunch of times. So had I. Then I made caring for myself a huge priority and put it into practice, and I learned how little hearing it had ever done for me. Watch the full video:
Know the Time Cost of a Class Taught Outside Your Learning Style
Here is a difference maker almost nobody checks before signing up for a course: is this being taught in your best learning style, or will you have to convert it into one that works for you? If you have to convert it, double your time estimate. That is not pessimism. That is what happens when
Run This FOMO Test Before You Sign Up
Here is a test I run on myself before I sign up for anything: a week from now, will I still be thinking about this, wishing I had said yes? If the answer is no, I already have my answer. I do not need to run the rest of the numbers. Most people skip this
5 Step Framework on How to Say NO to More in Your Schedule When Your Feelings Say Yes
I am three weeks into three unrelated classes right now, and I feel like I am back in school, except with less accountability and way more distractions. I did this to myself. I know exactly how, because I watch my clients do it to themselves every single month. Watch the full video: The Client
The Polymath’s Base Years: Why You Peak After 35 (Part 2 of 3)
Check out part 1 here. Do you know the real story of Harland Sanders? He was born in Indiana in 1890, and he worked dozens of jobs before any of the fame. Farmhand. Streetcar operator. Insurance salesman. By the 1930s he was running a service station in Corbin, Kentucky, where he started serving the pressure-fried
Show You’re Human First. Watch the Walls Drop.
When I spell something wrong on a whiteboard in a room full of people, I used to freeze. Now I say it out loud. “That’s my dyslexia, we all get to enjoy it.” Someone laughs, offers to write, and I hand over the marker. Here is what I did not expect. Every time I show
Word Farts Are Hiccups, Not a Verdict on Your IQ
I call them word farts. My brain swaps a word, drops three, or writes something that means nothing. It is not a measure of my IQ, and I will stand my ground on that. For a long while I read those as evidence that I didn’t deserve to reach my dreams or to have dreams.
You Can Make Nine Figures and Still Write “Pick Sale” Instead of “Bike Sold”
I wrote my husband a note this week while I was in the middle of a client call. It was supposed to say “Bike sold, pick up seven to eight tonight.” What actually came out was “Pick sale 7-8 pm tonight.” I tossed it on the hardwood floor so it would slide into the hallway