Many times, we find a cool productivity system in a book or an online content creator … then we get excited about it and try to implement it. But more often than most people realize, the system fails. Most people will think it’s because there’s something wrong with them — they failed to be disciplined about it. But that’s not it. Productivity systems fail because they’re not a good fit for us. And because we don’t know how to put them into action in a way that sets us up for success. In our...

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...