Organization

“Sitting here next to the creek, I’m noticing I don’t have to DO anything. There are no decisions to make, no actions to take. I can just be here in nature. And this is so different from daily life which is incredibly stressful all the time.” This young guy shared this with me during a […]

A client told me: “I know what I should do. I just can’t seem to actually do it.” The gap between knowing and doing isn’t about willpower but rather it’s about how much internal power and energy you have. How “revved up” or relaxed your fight or flight triggers are. When you’re chronically overstimulated, everything […]

Your dang phone buzzes constantly. Your calendar is slap full with meetings. Your inbox is like playing a game of whack-a-mole: handle one, three more pop up. Yet somehow you’re supposed to make brilliant strategic decisions in this chaos? Really? Here’s the thing: your brain literally wasn’t designed for this level of constant input. (Nobody’s […]

“I don’t have time to think.” Three different leaders said this exact phrase to me in the past few weeks. It caught my attention and got me thinking… Thinking is literally your job. There’s something deeply wrong when the most successful people I know are too busy managing what they’ve created to envision where they’re […]

A few years ago I read an issue of Paddling Magazine. The founder and publisher had written his opening letter and a few paragraphs caught my attention. And it probably caught my attention because I often have conversations about this very topic with clients. It’s about this thing called ENOUGH TIME. Paddling Magazine’s founder and […]

Is it really true that you don’t know what to do?” I asked this question of a prospective client during an emotion-filled phone Clarity call. I could hear her hesitation. I could feel her frustration. “No,” she said. “I do know what to do…what needs to change. I just don’t know why I can’t make […]