Part 1: Less Stuff  The Joy of Purging How much of what surrounds you do you actually use or love? I have to credit Marie Kondo here because her 2014 book, ​The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up​, helped me do the most thorough purge of my adult life. I can say for...

  At Accountability Works, we see accountability coaching as a way to cultivate awareness so that you can make better, more aligned choices. You are always accountable. Whether you act or don’t act, decide or defer, you live with the consequences. That’s the...

We tend to measure success by what got finished. Boxes checked. Goals met. But there’s another kind of success: quieter, less visible, and equally worthy of attention. Sometimes, what’s most important isn’t whether you “got it done,” but how you are different for...

A Word on Cycles, Seasons, and Solstice I started getting a weekly vegetable box in my mid-20s, back when I lived in San Francisco. I was studying Ayurveda back then and it was important to eat with the seasons. It would take years before I could successfully cook...

How You Can Use Zero-Based Thinking Have you ever felt stuck in something, a job, a routine, or a project, and wondered,  “Why am I even doing this anymore?” That’s where zero-based thinking comes in. I first heard about this concept on the ChooseFI podcast, and I was...

Overcoming Inertia: Increasing and Decreasing Friction When I think about inertia, I'm usually thinking about how to help a client do something they have resistance to or to stop doing something they don't want to do anymore. Newton’s first law of motion also known as...

Intentional Underwhelm: Creating Space for Presence I can’t remember the first time I heard the phrase intentional underwhelm, but it stuck. I have a little running list of ideas, quotes, podcasts, basically anything I find inspiring that I keep on the Notes app on my...

Every once in a while, it’s useful to pause and ask, How am I really doing?  Not just how things look on the outside, but how you feel on the inside. And most importantly, what are you doing well or is working? The reason is that if you are like most humans, it is...

At Accountability Works, we often talk about aligned action i.e. doing what’s aligned with your vision and goals, not just what’s next on your to-list. In a culture that reveres productivity and efficiency, it’s easy to get lost in our to-do lists. The problem? To-do...