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Time Management Part 2: Use a Rolling Planning
This article introduces the rolling planning approach to prioritize important tasks without over-planning. By organizing tasks into Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly, and Daily buckets, you stay flexible and adaptable as priorities change. The Jar of Pebbles analogy helps you schedule high-impact activities first, preventing your calendar from filling up with less important tasks. This simple method keeps you focused, productive, and avoids planning burnout.
Time Management Part 1: Important versus Urgent
This article explores the critical distinction between importance and urgency in time management. Using the Upstream vs. Downstream story, it illustrates the value of proactive planning to prevent crises instead of constantly reacting to them. The Eisenhower Matrix is introduced as a tool to categorize tasks into four quadrants, helping you focus on Quadrant 2 activities—important but not urgent tasks that drive long-term success. By proactively scheduling these high-impact activities, you shift from being reactive to being strategic, ensuring consistent progress toward your goals.
Pause Before You Speak: The Unexpected Power of Saying Nothing (for a moment)
Slow down to think smarter! Discover how pausing before you speak taps into deeper insights, improves decision-making, and leads to more meaningful conversations. Learn why resisting snap judgments can unlock better results in both business and life.
The Four-Step Process to Achieve Any Goal
Being able to achieve any goal might seem a bold claim, but in this article I reveal a powerful four-step process that makes it possible. Learn how to define your goal with clarity, take bold action experiments, notice what’s working without labeling results as failures, and pivot your approach based on insights. By consciously applying these steps, you’ll unlock the secret to consistent progress and transformative success.
The Value of Journaling: Clearing the Clutter of Your Mind
Journaling helps clear the mental clutter by bringing your thoughts to paper, allowing you to evaluate them objectively. In this article I explain how journaling reveals patterns, clarifies values, and helps release unhelpful beliefs. Discover practical tips to start journaling and learn how this powerful practice fosters clarity, focus, and personal growth over time.
Using the ABCD Model to Transform Your Results
The ABCD model helps you understand how your thoughts influence emotions, behaviors, and results. By identifying activating events, questioning beliefs, and observing outcomes, you can reshape your responses to achieve better results. In this article I describe how it works, provide practical steps, real-life examples, and tips on using the model and keeping a log to transform your self-talk and outcomes.
From Busy to Strategic: Taking Time to Focus on What Truly Matters
Feeling stuck in constant busyness without achieving strategic goals? This article explores how coaching helps leaders prioritize, reflect, and make impactful decisions. Learn how to break the cycle of firefighting, align your actions with long-term goals, and achieve transformative growth with clarity and focus.
The Leader’s Blind Spot: How Coaching Creates the Awareness You Need to Succeed
Leaders focus on the big picture but often miss their own blind spots. In this article I explain how coaching serves as a mirror, uncovering hidden patterns, limiting beliefs, and emotional triggers that shape your leadership. Discover how heightened self-awareness drives authenticity, better decision-making, emotional regulation, and growth, empowering you to lead with greater clarity and impact.
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