“I feel unproductive”

“I feel unproductive” is a vibe. Let’s talk about it. I know this will be painful for some of us, but here’s the honest truth about feeling unproductive. What’s really happening when we say things like, “I feel like I haven’t accomplished anything” or “Why am I not more productive?” Here are a couple of…

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Stop “Should”ing Yourself

One of the first authors I officially coached was a woman who was unproductive because she kept waking up angry. (And I tell this story in WBF, which is starting today, so the beginning of that class always reminds me of this story.) Because I’m always looking for the actual catalyst for the lack of…

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On Feeling Impatient

Ok, all my “impatient” friends… here’s one for you today. I know being impatient gets a bad reputation. And a lot of us who have trend in this direction get shamed for having no impulse control, but let me just put in a plug for the love of impatience for a minute. If we assume…

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Templates of Certainty

In honor of the recent episodes of the audio QuitCast, I wrote the following and wanted to post it here as well. Hope it helps some of us process certainty today. <3 Many of us are not wired to easily sort through a lot of potential options, and we get overwhelmed when it appears there’s…

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Joy is Connection

Watch the ducks. Feel the cool breeze. Listen to the grass swish. That’s what I just did, taking a break from answering Patreon comments, because we’re reading the book “Joyful” by Ingrid Fettel Lee on the Patreon, and we’ve been doing joy-spotting as a hook into the emotion cycle since the conference in March (among…

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A Challenge for Thinking-Dominant Folks

Here’s a challenge for all my thinking-dominant peeps today: If you have been considering doing something (reaching out to a friend, cancelling plans, making a change, stopping a relationship, starting a relationship), take a small step today. The desire to think until we have certainty is sometimes a Strength behavior, and sometimes a response to…

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Are You Socializing Enough?

If you got out of the habit of socializing during the last few years… are you okay? Some of us are fine socializing less than we were, and if that’s you, please ignore me. But I’ve now had four coaching calls in a row where we had to do a come-to-Jesus about how lonely we…

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The Positive Emotion Cycle

I was in the SeaTac airport recently, when I witnessed a woman have an extremely public meltdown over her luggage not showing up after a flight. She ran around the baggage carousel, screaming profanity at the top of her lungs. Anyone who came near her would get screamed at. This went on for almost an…

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