Needle Moving Tips

How to Be More Consistent

There are 4 stages to being consistent: Possibility, Excitement, Commitment, Habitual Possibility: You think about doing something new, you dream of what your life will look like when you’re doing those things, you buy planners, and you make a plan and maybe a vision board. Excitement: It’s day 1! You’re doing the thing! You’re really…

How to stop feeling behind

I’m so behind. How often do you feel this way? When you’re feeling behind, you’ll frantically spend your day rushing around, trying to playing catch up (sometimes just in your head, not even doing actual work). You’ll get annoyed with interruptions – you have no time for that. By the end of the day, you’re…

The easiest way to get more done

The easiest way to get more done isn’t to plan everything out. When you put every last thing you want to do in your calendar, you’re skipping a crucial step. Prioritizing.  When you skip prioritizing and jump straight into throwing everything into your calendar, you’re setting yourself up for frustration, confusion, stress and procrastinating. Here’s…

How to Be Consistent

The Formula for Consistency   This is a concept I started (accidentally) back in the early days of my coaching business (May 2020) before I had my first client. I gave myself a 30 blogs in 30 days challenge.   At first, writing those daily blogs felt IMPOSSIBLE. It took me close to two hours…

Why Things Pile Up

Laundry, your to-do’s, that pile of books, bills, appointments … there’s a simple reason why these things keep piling up. You have a habit of telling yourself, “I’ll do it later.” Because you aren’t ready now. You don’t have what you need now. You can’t focus on it now. You’re too tired now. You don’t…

How to Organize Your Time

If you feel like your to-do list is never ending, you have a pile of sticky note reminders, and you feel overwhelmed, let’s organize your time. First, you’ll want to write down everything you could do this week. Then, you’ll want to pick your top 5 priorities that you want to make sure get done…

How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed

The key to managing your time is to be able to calmly and easily sort through & separate the important from the unimportant and then follow through with the important (either directly or through delegation) and delay or delete the unimportant – without worry, stress, confusion, or overwhelm. The easiest way to accomplish this is…

Finding Your Work Flow

You don’t need to work 9-5 (even if you work a 9-5). If your work day doesn’t seem to flow, it’s time to switch things up. Let go of the rules and the “supposed to’s” for a second; it’s time to get into experiment mode. No matter if you work in a 9-5 or you…

How to Move the Needle

If you want to get the most important things done, you need CLARITY and SIMPLICITY. It’s so easy to hide behind a to-do list with 15 items, or a day planned back to back. I see this all of the time. You’re checking the boxes, getting things done, but the important things are getting buried…

Trying to Get Everything Done

When you tell yourself, “I’m trying to get everything done” here’s what you’re ACTUALLY saying: I can’t get it all done. I’m not someone who actually does what she says. I don’t actually know how to get these things done. Thankfully, there’s a simple fix for this. First, you’re going to want to define “everything.”…

Time Values

If something about how you’re spending your time seems off or like you’re fighting an uphill battle to do what you think you need to do, I’d care to wager you’re going against your time values. Time values is a concept I created when I realized that after struuhhh-guhh-ling STRUGGLING to do anything outside of…

Procrastination

“I need to do a good job.” “I’m responsible.” “It’s important.” These statements seem positive but they are some of the most common causes of procrastination for me and for my clients. These (and similar thoughts) are what I call high-stakes thoughts. High-stakes thoughts are thoughts that create a feeling of pressure. And not the…

Time Blocking Drama

Ahh time blocking. The way we’ve be told is the best and most effective way to manage our time. The way that I tried to manage my time for 2 and a half years. And the way I could never get right (truthfully, I felt like I never even got close despite my best and…

I have to do it right

Procrastination and inadvertent inauthenticity go hand in hand. Which is why the fastest way out of procrastination is to be authentically yourself. Let me explain. When you tell yourself, “I have to get this right” or “I just need to do this the right way,” what you’re really saying is: I need to do it…

What should I plan?

“But what should I plan?” If you find yourself asking this question and then not answering but scrolling on social media for inspiration or doing research to find the answer, here’s why: What you’re actually saying to yourself when you ask, “but what should I plan?” is: I don’t know. I don’t know the right…

Carving Out Time

You don’t need to carve out time. You need fewer and clearer priorities. What’s happening right now is you’re trying to cram more into an overly full junk drawer. And it doesn’t fit. The new thing keeps getting stuck or spilling out or you just forget it all together. Instead of taking everything out, sorting…

Planning 101

How to plan your week: simply, easily, and effectively What are the 5 most important things for you to get done this week? Do any of those things need to be broken down further? I ALWAYS err on the side of breaking it down “too far” then not far enough. If you are breaking it…

How to Make Time Management Easy

In order to manage your time, you DON’T need a massive overhaul. Starting to manage your time intentionally is just like if you were to start to train for a marathon. Your first run wouldn’t be 26.2 miles. If your fitness level is anything like mine, you’d probably start with more of a walk/jog situation….

Why you procrastinate (for perfectionists)

Scrolling Instagram instead of working, cleaning instead of working, snacking instead of working … these are all SYMPTOMS, not excuses. What’s really going on is your inner perfectionistic critic has set the bar impossibly high for you. So when you attempt to dive into work, she stops you dead in your tracks with: “You have…

How to be productive (instead of busy)

If you want to be productive instead of busy it’s time to ruthlessly prioritize.   Ruthlessly prioritizing looks like selecting ONLY 1-3 high-impact activities that you’ll accomplish/finish/complete daily & writing them down. In order to move the needle, there’s a crucial shift in mindset from being action-oriented to being someone who closes the loop, daily….

How to make follow through effortless

If following through feels inconsistent, it’s always one of these three reasons: 1. You aren’t planning well (or at all) 2. You’re overwhelming, confusing, or pressuring yourself 3. Procrastination (scrolling, cleaning, doing laundry, reading, etc. when you want to be doing more productive things) Making follow through effortless comes down to three things:   1….

Upholding Time Boundaries

Ending work on time (and I mean both physically working AND thinking about work) is one of the most important things you can learn how to do. Learning how to uphold work boundaries will have you feeling rested and relaxed and enjoying your life. When you don’t do this, you will feel frantic, worried, and…

Monthly Evaluation

If you don’t take the time to find the lessons from this month, you WILL keep running into the same problems next month. Guaranteed. It’s uncomfortable – yes – to look at all of your fails. But it is an activity with one of the highest ROI’s. It’s FAR more uncomfortable to stay stuck, to…

Chill. Out. & Hit Your Goals

You can do things “imperfectly” and still create your goals. Not in spite of your imperfections but because of them. Learning how to lean into the way you work best. When you learn how to lighten up and allow, expect, and tailor your goals around your “imperfections”, you’ll hit your goal faster. If you’re trying…

Power of Planning

If you repeated the way you spent your time today for the next 365 days, where would you be a year from now? Would you be happy with where you’d be? Great! Make a note of what are you doing, how you’re feeling and what are you thinking. Repeat those things daily. Now, if you’re…

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