Month: March 2024
Failure Is Not Your Enemy
Fun fact: I didn’t apply to medical school because I flunked an Organic Chemistry lab in my junior year. While that isn’t the entire story, it was the last straw. For years, I felt like a failure for not becoming a doctor. Eventually, I realized it didn’t matter to anyone else but me, and my “failure” was…
Ep #93: Learning to Embrace Failure
Fear is a primal instinct wired into our brains as a survival mechanism. It served our ancestors when facing immediate physical threats like predators, and now when we experience it, we feel as though we lack courage. However, courage and fear can coexist simultaneously, we just think they can’t because of our tendency to overthink…
Spring: The Season of Reinvention
We just returned from visiting our three daughters in Oregon over the long weekend. And yes, it is a beautiful and weird coincidence that they all live within an hour of each other. We spent time together eating, drinking, laughing, walking and talking. It was awesome! But another unexpected delight of our trip was the early bloom of…
Time Management
Time management is a constant battle in today’s world. Even as I write this week’s newsletter, I am interrupted by texts, social media notifications, and emails popping into my inbox. Time Management and productivity are enormous challenges for my clients, too. But what if time was something you learned to manage better rather than it…
Ep #92: Time Management: A Secret Hack to Staying Focused
Moving from a structured, corporate job into owning your own business can be a learning curve when it comes to time management and focus. I found this when I started trying to write my own book. But through taking a course on how to write a book in 30 days, I discovered an amazing technique…
Reap the Rewards of Routine
As a coach, I work with both executives and entrepreneurs (writers, producers, and small business owners). For my executive clients, their schedules are dictated by their work hours and all that entails: Commuting, In-person or Zoom meetings, phone calls, emails, and then doing their actual jobs. For my entrepreneurs, their schedules are more unstructured. They don’t…