Stop waiting for invisible help to get started — This past week, a friend asked me to tell him the easiest way to get motivated. He has a comically-large project looming vulture-like over him, and his deadline steadily creeps closer every day. Unsurprisingly, he’s been procrastinating on taking even the slightest steps to get started. “There are too many…

Being a beginner has benefits you’ve probably never thought of — How often do you put off trying to learn something new because you know you will not be good at it? Yeah, me too. There are a whole bunch of new skills and experiences I’d like to try. Are these things that will help my work? No. …

Everyone needs the proper tools to succeed — When I was a kid, the weeks before we went back to school were a time of deeply mixed feelings. On the one hand, summer was ending, meaning no more days spent running around and having fun. No more afternoons spent at the beach. …

And how you can build it in to your day immediately — Summer arrived on June 21st, and on June 22nd, we seized the day and left on a road trip. Over the next 27 days, my husband and I covered over 6,000 miles through the west and upper midwest of the United States. From my perch in Navigator’s Nest, also known…

The unmistakable power of summing up big thoughts in just a few words — “Do you have a favorite quote?” This was the question being posed to me recently by a podcast host as we were wrapping up an interview. In his own version of a Lighting Round, he’d already asked, “Are you a dog person or a cat person?” (I’m secretly a cat-lady-in-training…

This is the summer that you do not have to miss out on anything. — I hate the feeling of forgetting something. Like when I’m heading out for vacation but I’m filled with a nagging feeling that I’ve forgotten to pack something important (that I’ll only remember right when I need it most.) Or walking into a meeting and realizing I left an important document…

Small, unexpected tweaks can be the start of the big changes you need to control the stress in your life — 2:47 a.m. on April 18th is the exact moment I knew. I was lying in bed, wide awake, just like the past four nights. But this night, well, morning actually, I finally understood what was wrong. …

Getting things done can be hard enough without taking the last shred of fun out of them — Do you know what’s frustrating? (Besides figuring out how to grow basil successfully, which is driving me a little bonkers right now.) …

How SMART Goals can be altered to help you be successful every time — Hey, hi there! Just popping in to see how you’re doing with the goals you set a few months ago. I know it was right around New Year’s Eve, and you were probably a little giddy from your 37-day-long sugar-cookie binge. You may have been a bit overly optimistic about…