This morning I woke up, took the dogs out, then grabbed a banana and sat at my desk. I stretched and said, "hey google, play some instrumental reading music" to activate my Nest and settled into my routine of reading one chapter of the book that is currently inspiring my writing, Bird By Bird. I highlighted all the brilliant sentences that popped out at me and at the end of the chapter, I feel buzzed with ideas and inspiration. I closed the book and turned on my typewriter. After over a month...
6 months ago • 2 min read
My sisters and I were busy looking at the dozens of options for pottery we could paint, feeling totally overwhelmed by how many decisions there were. Not only did we have to chose the piece of pottery we wanted (mug, vase, dragon?!) but also what design we wanted to use and the colors we wanted. There were ENDLESS options and minutes ticked by while we looked through binders of stencils. Then they told us that they close in an hour and we each felt panicked. It was my last night in town so we...
6 months ago • 1 min read
A few years ago I found The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and decided to give it a go. I followed Marie Kondo's rule of holding each item of clothing to see if it "sparked joy" but everything felt meh. Nothing was a yes or a no and so my maybe pile just continued to grow. Until I held a dress I'd gotten during my trip to Ghana and my body lit up. This dress, custom made for me with its beautiful pink and green design, was definitely going in the yes pile. I'd finally felt what JOY felt...
6 months ago • 1 min read
I know this sounds super counterintuitive but it's true. The less time you have, the more you get done. Think about it for a minute. Let's say you have a call with a customer or client and there's something you promised to deliver to them before the call. You've had all week to create it and send it over, yet here it is 1 hour before the call and you finally start it. And miraculously it gets done in just 58 minutes. That's because of a little thing called Parkinson's Law which explains that...
6 months ago • 1 min read
Your day keeps getting the best of you. The To Do list is never-ending and the To-Done list is never enough. You feel like the treadmill won't stop. I've helped tons of busy, overwhelmed entrepreneurs create high value work weeks. Together, we've eliminated all the BS busy work. They now spend their days doing what they're best at and make 10x more in just 20 hours a week. Next Tuesday, I'm launching a 1 hour workshop to help you design a 20-Hour High Value Work Week and it's only $20. In...
6 months ago • 1 min read
A few weeks ago, I was on a Progress Pod call with Richard Ralston and when he asked me what my Next Tiny Step was, I kept mentioning all the things I wanted to finish. He was amazed that even though I focus on efficiency, I was so focused on the final step and not the next one (how inefficient!). He encouraged me to focus on the NEXT step which was starting the things I wanted to do, not finishing them. And it clicked! Of course we should concentrate on starting something before we talk...
7 months ago • 1 min read
I'm staring at a blinking cursor where words should be... but I'm having a hard time putting any down. I want to share a story about how anxiety manifests in my business but my brain is blank. And then I realize, that's exactly how anxiety manifests... it paralyzes me. It has me thinking I have nothing to say or share. It bloats the tasks on my lists into a "whole thing" and I don't even know where to begin. The analysis paralysis stops me from starting so many things. And yet, when I push...
10 months ago • 1 min read
I woke up this morning, 5 minutes before my alarm went off. My heart was racing, I was covered in sweat. I blinked my eyes opened and looked around. I was in an unfamiliar space - an AirBnb in Colorado Springs. It was still dark and I felt nauseous. I got out of bed and stepped into the bathroom for a quick shower. I knew I didn’t have much time but I was really struggling to get moving. I turned on the lamp, sat at the tiny desk in my small room, and opened my computer. My brain was foggy...
10 months ago • 1 min read
Yesterday I was talking to my partner about a big decision I wanted to make and I was telling him all the reasons I was scared about the decision, all the ways it could go wrong. He said, "if you were thinking about it through a lens of abundance, what would you say?" That one little reframe changed everything. We talked through what kind of life I wanted to create - one that empowers women to have more joy, peace, impact, and resilience in business and in life. As I started talking through...
11 months ago • 1 min read