We all have setbacks. From personal crises to failing at habit change to having a really messy week … this kind of stuff can get us feeling discouraged. I’ve been thinking a lot about how we can pick ourselves back up again, and what I’ve been loving is the idea of fresh starts. A fresh start is putting the discouraging stuff behind you, and starting anew. It’s exciting and hopeful! And we can have a fresh start on any day we choose. That’s the topic of our November Fearless Living Academy...
about 3 hours ago • 1 min read
These days, it can be hard to be true to who you are — we might have the tendency to people-please, to try to not be judged, to protect ourselves from criticism — and so we feel like we either have to be someone we’re not … or withdraw from engaging with others. How can we put ourselves out there, express ourselves, and still be authentic? In our October Fearless Living Academy workshop, we’re going to explore how to express our core values even under the pressure to conform. Topics we’ll...
28 days ago • 1 min read
A lot of us are feeling overwhelmed just about every day — there’s so much going on in our lives, so many commitments, so much to do, and never enough time. What if we could simplify our lives? What would it be like to live a simpler life, on a day-to-day basis? That’s the topic of our September Fearless Living Academy workshop, where we’ll look at some practical ways to create a simpler life and have a little breathing room. Identify what matters most — let your calendar reflect your...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
So many of us are feeling overwhelmed by the constant pressure of our lives, and are craving a bit of calm and inner peace. Let’s imagine that for a moment: you wake up in the morning with a deep sense of inner calm, and no matter what the day throws at you, you’re able to come back to this place of peace. How do we cultivate this kind of inner peace? Through practice and some helpful mindset shifts. This month, I’m doing a YouTube live to help people learn this skill. We’ll look at some...
2 months ago • 1 min read
The most fundamental skill that we practice in Fearless Living Academy is self-trust. Most of our difficulties in changing our lives, in dealing with overwhelm, in creating a meaningful impact in the world … revolve around creating a deeper sense of self-trust. If you have a greater degree of self-trust, things become so much easier. You can deal fearlessly with tasks and projects and habits. You don’t criticize yourself so much, or doubt yourself. You just trust yourself, take action, and...
3 months ago • 1 min read
I’ve noticed that so many people are just trying to get through their work days by getting stuff done, checking off boxes, doing what we think we should do. And not just work, but most of our lives are like this! Either that, or we’re avoiding the dull, dreaded work we’re trying to force ourselves to do. There’s another way: actually feeling alive while you do work, and in the rest of your life! What if, instead of seeing how much you can get done … you changed the metric to “how alive did I...
3 months ago • 1 min read
Creating foundational habits is absolutely life-changing — it changed my life 20 years ago, and in the past couple of decades, I’ve been diving deeper into how to form habits and helping a lot of people change them. What I’ve learned is that there are a small set of really important skills for changing just about every habit — from health and fitness, to decluttering, to meditation and learning and productivity and creativity, and more. Over and over again, I’ve seen how important these key...
4 months ago • 1 min read
My friends, There are times when life just feels like too much — too many responsibilities, too many moving parts, too many expectations. It can leave us stretched thin, or even feeling like we’re failing just by trying to keep up. In those moments, our instinct might be to push harder. But what if the more powerful move is to let go? In this month’s Fearless Living Academy workshop, I’ve invited writer and engineer Beth Adele Long to guide us through something she calls load-shedding — a...
5 months ago • 1 min read
Hello friends, Most people these days are dealing with some sort of overload — too many tasks, too much information, too many emails and messages, too much going on in the world and in our lives. We feel overwhelmed and overloaded. This Saturday, I’ll be hosting a YouTube Live to help us work with that. I’ll share some practical techniques for handling the “too much,” and finding a bit of calm and space again. In this webinar, I’ll talk about: Identifying the sources of overload: Understand...
5 months ago • 1 min read