Draft first, decide later: Give your frontal lobe a chance to join the conversation
Most of us don't realize we needed a pause until about ten minutes after we hit send.
The text is gone. The email is sent. The words are out in the world.
And then, like an annoyingly late friend, clarity finally arrives.
The trick isn't learning how to pause. The trick is noticing when you probably need one.
For us, one of the biggest clues is urgency.
When there's a strong feeling that we nee...
More isn't always better: Why scarcity and abundance can create the same result
Lately we've been thinking about a concept we come back to often in coaching: sufficiency.
It's the sweet spot between abundance and scarcity.
We tend to think abundance is always the goal. More time. More flexibility. More options. More resources.
But abundance has a sneaky downside.
When we believe we have all the time in the world, it's easy to put things off. We'll exercise when life settle...
The noise complaint: Loud and true are not the same thing
One of the weird things about being human is that our brains tend to confuse loud with important.
The loudest kid in the classroom. The loudest person in the meeting. The loudest comment on social media.
We all know those aren't automatically the wisest voices in the room.
Yet when it comes to our own thoughts, we often forget that.
A thought shows up with a lot of energy behind it an...
