Save on Summer Coaching
Summer can be a good time to reflect on your priorities and plans for work and life. Coaching can help! Choose from three coaching options: Introductory Coaching Engagement - Address 1-2 issue areas in about [...]
And So It Goes…
This is a year of transition, challenge, and joy for me and my family. It has taken every last bit of organization, management, and productivity skill that I have, and then some. In the [...]
Finish the year strong!
As a proud Double Duck and Mama Duck to my older son Joey, it was fun to tour my favorite college campus with my son Sam this past week. After a difficult football season, we [...]
Pace Yourself
In the depths of the pandemic in 2020, a friend's 15-year-old daughter spent time with friends by taking walks. Over time, these walks got longer and longer, and eventually turned into running. The girls [...]
The Cure for Deadline-Driven Motivation
"I'm a bit disorganized but I do well with deadlines." Sound familiar? Our culture of busy-ness and overwork makes it easy to put so much on our plates that we just run from due date [...]
Your Recipe for Success
I love homemade pie. Pie feels nourishing, wholesome and healthy with fresh fruit or pumpkin and a few other simple ingredients. Pie makes an excellent breakfast but I like it best served warm, with whipped [...]
“Vacation, all I ever wanted…”
"Vacation, had to get away." - Vacation by The Go-Go's (Wiedlin, Valentine & Caffey, 1982) After 18 months of pandemic, I need a vacation, you need a vacation, we all need a vacation! With vaccinations increasing [...]
The Elephant In Your In Box
E-mail is the “elephant in the room” of many coaching conversations. It is omnipresent and, when poorly managed, debilitating to productivity. Reviewing and responding to e-mail keeps us enormously busy but it takes a big [...]
Turn Down the Volume to Boost Productivity
Nigel: "You're a Ten on your guitar, where can you go from there? Where?" Marty: "I don't know." Nigel: "No where. Exactly. What we do is if we need that extra push over the cliff [...]
Change Habits with Intention and Awareness
When a coaching client struggles to make progress toward a goal, one of the first tools we apply is what I call "Awareness Work." As we become more aware of how things are, we can [...]