If you and your partner have been together for a while, you know that it can be easy to put aside your needs as a couple in favor of work needs, family and friends’ needs, or simple distractions like TV. As long as things are going fine, why stop the train to talk...
The path to mastery is lifelong. We set goals because we know what we want to accomplish, but their real impact is to make us stronger and wiser in the process. As Gary Keller says, the purpose of a goal is not to achieve it, but to be appropriate in the moment. When...
Let’s focus on one fact first: remote work can make your team more productive. A Stanford study of 16,000 workers over nine months found that working from home can increase productivity by thirteen percent. In the study, the gains were attributed to a quieter, more...
Labor Day marks the end of summer. But as we prepare to trade our bathing suits for sweaters, it’s important to remember that our need for relaxing and refreshing never goes away. Even though vacation season is almost over and we’re shifting our priorities to finish...
It’s great to set personal and professional goals for ourselves. But, it’s often not as simple as we thought. After all, goal setting is about more than just arbitrarily picking a goal and achieving it. There’s work involved. And once we decide the direction we want...
One of the gifts of being on a path of mastery is that when we reach a goal, we’ve really just found our next starting line. If someone said to you “Okay, I ran 10k once so that means I can run 10k whenever I want,” you’d understandably wonder if the sun had...
Bans are lifting, guidelines changing, and people are starting to use a word we haven’t heard in over a year: “normal.” But what does normal really look like in a post-pandemic world? For many of us, the plans we had for our personal and professional lives...
We’re conditioned to think about big changes at certain times of the year. (New Year, New You.) Even around here we’re big proponents of the mid-year RESET. And while it can be advantageous to think about connecting your goals to larger cultural milestones, it can...
If you worked remotely before everyone had to learn how to do it, you know that there is a difference between remote work—working outside of the office with the ability to send kids to daycare or go to a coffee shop—and working from home while during quarantine. Stuck...