Your family rented a beach house for the week. It’s a beautiful, comfortable house just 100 yards from the ocean, where you’re currently watching your family swim and lounge without a care in the world. You’re inside on your laptop catching up on emails. Why is it so hard to simply unplug for a week, […]

Take a moment and think about the last vacation you had. For those of you who said, “Vacation? What vacation?” you’re not alone. The adult population of the U.S. has some of the lowest amounts of vacation days in the world. In fact, in 2019, The Center for Economic and Policy Research released a study […]

Imagine for a moment you’re at dinner with two friends. One friend is a super high-acheiver, working 65 hours a week, exhausted, and burnt out. They barely made it to dinner on time and will check emails the whole night. Their list of tasks is endless. The other friend feels stuck at work and is […]

Ralph Waldo Emerson once proclaimed: “The world belongs to the energetic.” Well, Mr. Emerson didn’t have to navigate the many complexities of 21st-century life, but his statement still holds true. How many of us feel that mid-afternoon slump? Or flop into bed exhausted but unable to fall asleep until midnight? Juggling our seemingly endless personal […]

It’s 6:30 a.m. and your alarm just went off. You get out of bed, shower, brush your teeth and put on a pot of coffee. Every day. Like clockwork. Your morning routine is automated. You don’t really have to think about it. It’s a ritual. We have processes in place for some of the simplest […]

It’s Wednesday, you’ve had a frantic morning with your family, you need to go grocery shopping, your house is a mess and you can’t find your keys, you arrive to work late (again!) and you realize you still need to type up the notes from yesterday’s meeting before your 9 am call. A sense of […]

Dread. Shame. Frustration. Hopelessness. We all feel many of the same things when we’re trying to make changes in our lives and just aren’t getting to where we want to be. We’ve all experienced the disappointment that comes with not being able to stick to a habit that really matters to us. As a Full […]

You run a business. That means you’re focused on making money—and not missing opportunities to make more money. No one is perfect 100 percent of the time. We all miss opportunities and make mistakes. But your livelihood—and the livelihoods of those who work for you—depends on your ability to optimize the bottom line and avoid […]

Have you ever picked up your phone and ten minutes later wondered what you were supposed to be doing? We’re constantly connected to our devices, and this makes us more disconnected from ourselves, others, and being present. The inability to stay focused has become a common 21st-century problem. We’ve all felt that sense of overwhelm […]

If we’re truly honest with ourselves, we are all involved in work that we love but aren’t necessarily the best at. Consider for a moment Florence Foster Jenkins, an American socialite who had dreams of being an opera singer. The problem? She simply could not sing.  Her social standing, wealth, and passion allowed her to […]