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The Focus You Fear

There's a difference between working on something and being in something, and I think the difference is time. It's not necessarily clock time, it's accumulated attention.

The Engine That Runs You

There's a question I've started using with clients that sounds simple but tends to land hard: What's actually driving you right now?

The Reputation You Have With Yourself

I've started thinking about self-esteem differently in that it is the reputation you have with yourself. Not confidence as a personality trait or positive self-talk, but something more structural.

Present In The Room

There's a line of thinking I keep coming back to: the idea that time isn't wasted by what you're doing, but by whether you're actually there for it.

The Operator's Guide to Morning Pages

I've been recommending something to the leaders I coach that sounds almost too simple to be useful: twenty minutes of longhand writing, first thing in the morning.