Last time, I wrote about how I get trapped in my bad habit of snacking for stress relief. I reviewed NYU Psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s concept of the elephant and the rider. Our rational, thinking mind is the human-sized rider of an enormous emotion-driven elephant.
Even in the best of circumstances…
“Okay, today I am not going to do any snacking. I don’t care how stressed out I am. I can do this.” This was my pep talk to myself on a Thursday. The same one I had done every other day of the week to no avail. …
“So, I’m really interested in this obsession with being busy. Everyone is so busy. But why?”
I was at the beginning of a 25-minute coaching session with an altMBA student.
I had to bite my tongue to not step up on my soapbox and go off on a rant about…
When you look at people that do social media marketing for a living — folks who do amazing consistency for a living, they all have a few things in common. I call them the Big Three.
A few years ago, I had a major epiphany that has slowly but powerfully been changing the way I work. I learned to say no to busy and yes to a very purposefully selected amount of work — an amount I could do well and in a timely fashion. …
This week I had a steamrolling incident. Upon delivering the necessary apologies, it shone a light on my #1 tactic for getting myself to ship my work, especially when it’s scary.
I’m in my fourth session of running GoGoSprint and each time I do it, I iterate something.
GoGoSprint is…
When factors like COVID and air quality allow, I often spend my free time with my Drinking Club with a Running Problem. This group has taught me many amazing lessons like:
As I noted in last week’s post, I stumbled and fell hard on my white privilege when George Floyd was murdered. My next several posts are focused on amplifying Black voices. I will share some of the things I’m reading and watching and some short reflections on them. …
