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 [...]
Park Quick Tasks to Boost Productivity
Do you avoid tackling the project that needs an hour of your attention until you can just complete just one "quick task"? Do you get distracted while working on an important task to do several [...]