It can feel disheartening when you want to create something meaningful and suddenly run straight into a wall. The ideas might be there, yet something inside tenses up, pulls back, or shuts down. Creative resistance can feel confusing, frustrating, and even a little mysterious. Why does this happen? That’s the topic of my upcoming webinar, Beneath the Creative Block: What Your Resistance Is Trying to Tell You. I’ll be co-teaching with Amanda Goddard, my friend, fellow coach, and Zen Habits...

Every year in December, I encourage everyone in Fearless Living Academy to go through our Sacred Bow Challenge (note: “Bow” rhymes with “cow”), which is a process of reviewing your year to get the most out of it, and then setting intentions and structure for the coming year. I find it a powerful process for reaping the most learnings from our year, and setting ourselves up for success in the year to come. But there’s another benefit of going through the Sacred Bow Challenge — it can be a...

It can be a real struggle these days, in the over-stimulated environments we work in, to set clear intentions, stay focused and actually do work that creates an impact. In the face of this, many of us are trying to build solid productivity habits… and a lot of the time, these efforts fail. Then we blame ourselves and lose trust in ourselves. Why do we struggle to create good habits around focus and productivity? That’s the topic of my upcoming webinar, Why Your Productivity Habits Keep...