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Seeing the Gift

· Resiliency & Change

There are a number of common blockers for creating powerful change in your life: Each of these can derail your efforts to create something new. And to be clear, there is nothing wrong with any of these — they’re wonderfully human traits. But to create powerful change, we have to learn to work with them. Today I’d like …

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A Mindfulness Practice for Holiday Stress

· Mindfulness & Mastery

The holidays can be stressful, with shopping, travel, family gatherings, extra busyness, winter storms, and more. The chaos of our lives plays out in sometimes heightened form over the season. In this post, I’m going to share the practice I’ve been using to deal with whatever stress has been arising in my life. I call …

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Working Effectively When You’re Overwhelmed

· Productivity & Organization

I've noticed that a lot of people are feeling stressed, disorganized, and overwhelmed to the point where it's extremely hard to focus and do good work. So, in this state of being disorganized and overwhelmed, what can we do to be more effective? Today, I'm going to talk about the top three things I do to help me focus …

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How the Feeling of Pointlessness Can Derail Us

· Purpose-Filled Work & Life

Something I’ve noticed that derails a lot of people’s goals or attempts to form habits is the feeling that it’s pointless to even try. If it feels like it won’t matter if you do anything … why would you try? And so when people feel this, they will usually give up, understandably. But if we want to break through this …

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Committed & Unattached: A Powerful Way to Work

· Mindfulness & Mastery

I’ve been diving deep into working with full commitment lately, in my personal transformative work and working with my clients. It’s fascinating work. The biggest stumbling point for people is the dichotomy between: As you can see, each side of the dichotomy between detachment and commitment has a set of problems. One …

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Fearless Mastery: Going Deep & Running Together

· Mindfulness & Mastery

At the start of the pandemic, in the midst of chaos and uncertainty, I launched Fearless Mastery, my small group coaching and mastermind program. It was actually perfect timing: my intention was to help people train to be open in the middle of uncertainty, so that they could do their purpose work with joy. Over the …

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When You’re Overwhelmed, Simplify

· Mindfulness & Mastery

The feeling of being overwhelmed is extremely common in the people I talk to, and it’s becoming more and more clear to me that this is the default state for most of us. We’re overwhelmed by it all: all the things we have on our plates, all the interruptions and messages and emails, all the things online and on social …

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Creating Sacred Focus

· Mindfulness & Mastery

Our focus during the day is almost always muddled. We switch between everything, and at any given 5-minute period, most of us would often be hard-pressed to say what we’re focusing on. That’s not how our minds work most of the time. It’s no wonder we struggle to face things that are scary, uncertain, difficult and …

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