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
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
Advice to Newly Minted Adult Polymaths: It’s Okay If You Don’t Know What You Want to Grow Up and Be
“I don’t know what I want to do yet.” You say it like a confession. It is not. The people who knew their one lane at 18 and drove straight down it are not the control group for a good life. They are one group. You are another. And the research keeps siding with
He Built a Franchise at 65. You’re Not Behind, You’re Just a Polymath Entrepreneur
Colonel Sanders ran a gas station, not a kitchen. He spent years in a wide mix of jobs, opened a service station in the 1930s, started feeding his customers on the side, and built a following for his chicken. Then the state moved the highway and killed his traffic. He was in his 60s.
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
How to Embrace Your Inner Polymath
So meone judges the variety of what you do. Here is the move. You smile and say, “Did you know there is a name for that? It is polymath.” That is the whole shift. Not a defense, not a justification. A word that turns the thing you have apologized for into the thing you claim.