The reason you keep falling short on your goals.

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Any meaningful and sustainable change is requires both insight and action.

  • Insight. I have to give myself space and time to identify my problem or pain point, its impact on my life, and where it came from. I have to define where I want to go and clarify how and what I will need to get there.

  • Action. I have to be willing to do the doing. I have to switch from thinking and feeling to doing...to living in that new reality.

Without creating space for both, you will only find yourself burning out, putting time and energy into what I call "band-aid solutions" or quick fixes that leave you in the same place as where you started with increasing hopelessness

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Why Productivity is Not Enough to Create the Life you Deserve.

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It’s easy to fill our time with tasks, to do's, worries, thoughts, and mindless social media scrolling sessions. Like gas in an enclosed container, "stuff" will always take up as much space in our life as we allow. And then it becomes wishful thinking to assume that we will ever live a life that is not “busy.” All “busy” really means is that we are consumed by these thoughts, feelings and behaviors and do not know how to move past, or separate ourselves, or to work more effectively within them.


From here, the idea of productivity was born. Being able to manage our time and energy most effectively to progress towards our goals and complete the tasks at hand more efficiently and with greater ease. This first step was excellent in the process of treating the disease of busyness. It forced people to use systems of delegation, automation, deleting, and prioritization. But productivity often misses some key concepts that can only be mastered when we take it to the next level of elevation -- Intentional Productivity.

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