Goals & Practices
Finding Your Sweet Spot: The Unique Path to Habit Formation
Forming a new habit is not about sheer willpower – it’s about finding your sweet spot – the method, timing, and motivation that align best with you.
Sweeping Success: Clarifying Value and ROI
Declutter your organization by focusing on high-impact activities clarifying value and boosting ROI as you consider what to stop and what to start.
Some Practice Favorites: A Post-Holiday Refresh
I am offering up some favorite practices and practice tips to encourage you to embrace the joy of practice.
Moving Beyond New Year’s Resolutions: A Path to Lasting Growth
The key to growth is setting goals that align with your values and committing to the work to achieve them. Build systems to support your progress.
The Leadership Toolset
What leadership tools do you rely on? What new tools do you need to add? What could you practice with others for compounding returns?
Intentional Leadership: Take a Leap!
February 29 – it’s a whole extra day – how will you be intentional and strategic in spending it?
Getting Back to “Normal”
What happens when we return to work and haven’t kept up with our habits? Get back to normal as quickly as you can. This was challenging.
I Resolve in 2024
It’s two days into 2024 and most of us who made New Year’s resolutions still remember them. Some 45% of Americans typically make New Year’s resolutions with 9% of them achieving their goals.
The Edge of a Comfort Zone
It is often the input and encouragement of others that help us nudge or sustain a move out of our comfort zones.
Finding Balance, Sustaining Progress
I am grateful for how my cohort and coaches have helped me to look inward, an honest look at myself and my mindset. It has been transformative.
Meditations on My Weekly Planning
I used to dread Mondays – a chaotic chorus of demands from every direction. After our first workshop, I decided to start a weekly planning practice.
Dueling Identities
July 3, 1776, they considered themselves British citizens. The next day, they declared themselves independent Americans. What a shift in identity.
Conserving Willpower is Not Easy
It is hard for me to keep a New Year’s Resolution. Why is that? We have a limited supply of willpower and need to best use it.
You 2.0 Could Be on the Horizon
Think about your Desired Future State. Don’t settle, have it really be a transformation. This is your 2.0 “version” you should set sight on.
The In-Between or Transition Time
I have been thinking about the space in between change; that transition time from the “old” to the “new.” It could be from setting a goal or practicing a new habit.
Use Intention to Drive Ongoing Professional Development
I reflected on my graduation from the MOR program and wondered how to keep that energy going? What are some specific things you can start doing today.
Tuesday Reading: Developing a Practice, One Tuesday at a Time
I wrote these essays to help new leaders as they began their leadership journeys. They were also valuable to more experienced leaders.
Six Steps Toward Resilience in Leadership
Feeling burned out as the leader? Resilience is the capacity to meet adversity, setbacks and trauma, and recover to lead and live life fully.
I Resolve
I suggest that you begin by changing your nomenclature. Instead of speaking and thinking about resolutions, begin to speak and think about commitments you willingly make to yourself. Why?
What do I really want to be known for?
I was flipping through my notebook. I wrote down what I want to be known for. Later I circled the question “Is what I said true?” I had some doubts.