Present & Productive

Refresh Your Reading ListWhat's back-to-school without new books? September is the perfect time to reignite a dormant reading habit. Personally, I love starting my mornings with a few minutes of inspiring pages - it propels me forward for the workday ahead!Sneak a peek atmy top 12 favorites, featuring research-packed gems like "Off the Clock" by Laura Vanderkam, "Tools of Titans" by Timothy Ferris, and "Grit" by Angela Duckworth.

Ready to hear something positively heartbreaking?

91% of Americans will give up on their New Year's resolutions before the end of the year. That means only 9% of workers follow through on their goals. Major yikes.

Today's podcast episode is designed to help you prepare a smooth path toward your goals... so you can be part of that rare 9% who follow through. Together, we walk through three easy steps that you can use to leverage the neuroscience of joyful productivity - and make your whole goal-pursuing process as awesome as possible!

My mission is to help high performers align their intentions with their time, so they can reclaim the joy of work and drop into flow on demand in today's productivity-obsessed work culture. My goal for today's podcast is that you'll learn how to design your goals in a way so that you can stay motivated all year long, effortlessly.

You'll learn how to shift your brain out of anxious beta wave state, into a calmly focused alpha wave state with three simple prompts:

1. Identify the core move associated with your goal
2. Get crystal clarity on how you want to feel when you reach your goal
3. Unlock your imagination to make the journey as awesome as possible

Dive into today's episode and get ready to fall so in love with your goals that it will be impossible not to achieve them!

Today's podcast episode is one of my annual favorites! 🎉 Together we'll brainstorm through a live exercise looking back over your 2022 highlights and milestones.

After today's 2022 Year Review episode, you'll have an inspiring and uplifting year-end review that gives your renewed clarity and confidence to leap forward in 2023.

The episode shares neuroscience-backed hacks for jumpstarting your year-end review, and explains why recapping your year now is the ultimate form of self-care before the end-of-year mayhem. As a bonus, I'll share my favorite NEW approach to recapping your year... in a way that positions your best foot forward come the New Year.

The best brainstorming happens in short bursts - so take a breath, grab a piece of paper and your favorite pens, and get ready to join me live in this joyful year-end review exercise.

You'll leave today's episode ready to build on your strengths and successes from 2022 so you can chart new paths ahead in 2023.

Your 2022 Gift Guide for Friends and Family who wish they could be more joyfully productive in the new year 🎁.

Drum roll please.... I'm so excited to share with you ten of my favorite items for joyful productivity in 2022!

These quality products are absolute musts in my personal routine (with one expectation that I'm swooning over!). People ask me for my top recommendations all the time, so I'm thrilled to share my 2022 list for joyfully productive giving - for yourself and your loved ones. Why not support your family and friends in their hopes to bring their goals to life in the new year?

Here's the list, make sure you check it twice 🎄

Because I'm a raving fan of many of these products, some of these links in the show notes are my personal affiliate links.

Join me in an immersive podcast episode as we walk through the Five Whys exercise to reconnect with your purpose and passion.

Have you ever found yourself asking this niggling question in the back of your mind… "Can I actually be more joyful and more productive?"

Only you can answer that question for yourself.

And I think life is too short for any answer besides "abso-freaking-lutely!"

Today's podcast episode shares a powerful exercise to fall back in love with your goals.

This exercise comes from lean project management in the corporate strategy world, but gets deeply personal effective results.

It's a simple exercise that you can do whether you're just starting out or reviving an old goal that may feel a bit stale.

This exercise requires your presence, taps into your purpose and reignites your passion - with the ultimate aim to get you back on track and propel you forward as we look to the last quarter of the year.

My goal for today's podcast is that by the end you'll have a living document to reignite your passion for your most important goal so you can ultimately end 2022 with pride and start 2023 on your best footing.

What happens during a silent retreat? What's the point? Why would someone go on a silent retreat... willingly?!?

If you've ever been curious about any of these questions, then you'll love today's podcast episode!

I'll talk about why I chose to go on the retreat (yes, I voluntarily decided to spend 5 days in silence), what happens during a silent retreat, and the 6 big learnings I brought home from the monastery into everyday life.

Make space for silence, beneath your habitual thought streams, and watch as your sense of the world and self transforms.

Stick around for the end of the episode, where I offer some reflection questions around different ways you might sprinkle a dose of zen into your daily routine.

This is a jam-packed episode with research and personal stories. Every time I create a podcast episode, my goal is to serve you with insight and inspiration to better align your mind with your time. If this episode served you, please consider sharing it with a friend or a co-worker. I believe each of us has an opportunity to lift up and support those whose lives are linked with ours. I'm so grateful you're a part of the Present and Productive Podcast community!

Today's podcast episode is all about the "F" word… Failure!

Left unchecked, Fear of Failure is paralyzing. Your mind races. Your heart rate rises. Your stomach tightens. It's essential to ⚠️ recalibrate Fear of Failure and ⚠️ correct the brain's negativity bias.

Redefine what "Failure" means in today's podcast episode...

So "Failure" creates less fear & more motivational fire 🔥.

We'll explore why failure can actually be a GOOD thing, with some cool examples of how to calibrate your Fear of Failure. I'll also share one of my most powerful goal-setting questions to use failure as a force for good ⚡️.

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P.S. My mission is to offer you insight and inspiration to better align your mind with your time. If this episode served you, please consider sharing it with a friend or a co-worker.

I believe each of us has an opportunity to lift up and support those whose lives are linked with ours. Thank you for helping spread the Present & Productive message to reclaim joy at work 🌈.

Have you ever been swirled into binge-watching a tv show? You know that spooling circle kinda sucks you into the next episode and there's a time warp when hours fly by before you can reach to press pause?

Yes yes YES! (Waving both hands in the air over here!) TV binge-watching used to be my kryptonite - and a hefty wrecking ball to my energy, job performance, and social confidence.

By the end of this episode, you'll have a step-by-step plan to break your tv addiction - or whatever other sticky habit you're embarrassed to admit to.

Become the kind of person who never needs to watch tv to escape your own life.

It's FINALLY here! July 2022 has arrived - and with the summer humidity it's a great time to reflect on how far you've come over the past six months. In today's Present and Productive Podcast episode, we walk through 3 short but powerful reflection questions to celebrate how you're successes and growth to date. Taking time to celebrate and learn from the past six months, we'll look forward to the next half of the year.

Join me for this super special episode - my first-ever live video podcast - outside over a cup of coffee on my porch. With hair flying all over the place, I'll reveal my personal goals in January and how they've evolved to new goals for the quarter ahead. Thank you for joining me in this celebratory episode - and I can't wait to see what dreams you love into life over the months ahead!

Imagine starting your week with a line of sight into all of your different workstreams, critical next steps on your projects, and the bandwidth you have to take on new work.

Today’s episode shares one simple tool to streamline your task management so you can keep a handle on everything that keeps your world going round.

That’s the magic of a Kanban board: one of the simplest solutions around for effective task management. Everyone deserves to have peace of mind and confidence in their daily routine and workflow.

There is enough time to get everything done that matters, and with a Kanban board you can take the agony of an endless to-do list and replace it with clarity and calm.