My husband and I traveled through Vietnam for our honeymoon 10 years ago. One of the hardest parts of our trip was crossing the street in Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital city. Motorcycles and rickshaws and cabs and scooters bustled to and fro in multiple lanes. Yet there were no lane markers and no traffic lights and no cross walks. It was pure chaos to my Western eyes. When it was time to cross the street, we’d …
“What gets measured gets managed.” I heard this quote often in my corporate career. It can be applied to all areas of your life — even time. It aligns with the universal wisdom that the first step to change is awareness. So if you want to make better choices about how you use your time, you must bring clear awareness to it by measuring it. Having read hundreds of time management, productivity, and high performance …
Every decision you’ve made has led you to right where you are right now. Do you love your life? Are you happy with what’s showing up for you regularly? Then you’re probably making the right decisions. Do you have regrets? Do you feel unsure of yourself? Do you feel disappointment and struggle and like you never get ahead? Then you are making decisions that aren’t serving you. Let’s change this up, shall we? I want …
We are moving. At the end of May my husband and I decided the timing was finally right to pursue buying our dream house on two acres of land so our family could spend more time in nature. But it’s the middle of a pandemic, well-meaning people said. But the economy is unstable, they added. But it’s so much work and you have two young kids home, they cautioned. We didn’t listen. One of the …
Quarantine helped me remember the power of focus. With less time for my work I was forced to identify necessary essentials (including what I used to think was necessary, but really wasn’t) and also which projects I was most passionate about. I knew I only had space for one of my big ideas, so I turned all my attention to my prescriptive nonfiction book that centers around my Mindful Balanced Life (MBL) Method that I …