I want to tell you about something I discovered one morning while doing yoga in my cold house. I’d been putting off my practice for days — weeks, if I’m honest. Every morning I’d wake up with good intentions, feel the temperature in the room, and decide that I’d start tomorrow. The conditions weren’t…

  There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how many hours you’ve worked. It’s the exhaustion of going through the motions. Of making it through your day – back-to-back meetings, decisions, emails, conversations – and arriving at the end of it feeling like you somehow weren’t really there for any…

  Many executives understand the importance of being more strategic. Far fewer know how to actually practice it in the middle of real work. Because strategy isn’t just a way of thinking. It’s a way of operating. And if you don’t intentionally change how you operate, you’ll default right back into the pull of the…

    One of the major challenges executives struggle to overcome is sacrificing the strategic for the operational. If you are falling into this trap, understanding and working through your resistance is the first step to freedom. Operational is clean. It has defined edges and finite solutions. You can check the boxes and feel a…

  We’ve all had one of those days where you wake up and just aren’t feeling it. Sometimes it’s harder to find your groove than others. This week’s video will give you three simple steps for moving through a funk with ease and grace – and in a way that will strengthen your leadership in…

  What if we leveraged the wisdom of “begin again” to the things we do every day? The projects we work so feverishly on? The relationships we nurture? The visions we create? The ideas we cling to long after we’ve realized they’ve outlived their relevance? Nature shows us there is much to be gained by…

  We’ve all been in meetings where you have something to say, but you’re just not sure how to go about it. You may open your mouth and wonder later whether you could have said it better. Or you may not say anything at all and then kick yourself for not speaking up. Either way,…

  It was summer of 2004. I had 3 kids under the age of 7. I was working full time. And I was under the illusion that I could be all things to all people. It was a “success formula” that had helped me get ahead for the majority of my life, and I had…

  Can you remember the last time you were so excited about something that you could feel the hair on your arms or the back of your neck stand up? Or the giddiness of a five-year-old at the prospect of visiting an amusement park? Maybe it got you out of bed in the morning or…

  Goals are something we are encouraged to stick to. But sometimes the goals we set for ourselves no longer match the direction we find ourselves wanting to go. Early in my career I (like many driven professionals) was prone to setting SMART goals. You know, “Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timebound”. It’s the conventional…