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If you want to achieve your goals, start by looking at what you've already done that someone else would call impossible. I can hear you shaking your head from here. Stay with me. I spent part of...

Is your to-do list full of busywork instead of high-impact tasks? I started asking myself that question because of a street sweeper on my morning commute. Quick setup. I live in the Washington, DC...

I say personal productivity isn't about doing more. I also say I want you to achieve goals in every area of life. If that sounds like telling you to eat less cake while handing you a bigger plate, I...

If you've ever wondered how to plan your life when you can't see past next Tuesday, welcome. Pull up a chair. You're in good company. I'm the parent of two twenty-somethings, so our house has hosted...

Self-care during hard times doesn't look like a candle and a bubble bath. Some seasons, it barely looks like self-care at all — it looks like survival with your sanity mostly intact. I talk a lot...

It's time to talk about how to plan for next year, because picturing next year already being better only gets you so far without an actual plan. Last week I told you to start thinking of 2027 in the...

Believe it or not, it's time to start goal setting for 2027. I know, I know — you just got 2026 figured out. But stick with me for a minute. You've probably heard someone say “next year is going to...

Kids believe the strangest things — and as adults, we carry our own kind of limiting beliefs that are just as untrue. Take my childhood, for example. My older brother once told me that eating a...

I often recommend books I’m reading. This one isn't getting my recommendation — except for one habit worth stealing from it: writing down your goals every single day. The book is Be Obsessed or Be...

If you've ever wondered how to break out of a rut, I have good news. The radio industry solved this problem decades ago, and it's called a pattern interrupter. In radio programming, a pattern...

About a year ago, my friend Lisa Hope Tilstra asked me what I planned to do with “my one wild and precious life.” I knew I had to have a great answer for her. Lisa hosts a podcast called Make Life...

Grind culture and I broke up a long time ago — check out Episode 24 of the Wholistic Productivity Podcast if you want all the tea. On that episode, I talked about three words I've banned from my...