Kototama:  The belief that words carry a spiritual power, that what you say can shape reality, influence events, and affect the heart of the listener.  How We Speak About Ourselves What I hear:  As an accountability coach, I’m often listening to people tell their...

What to do when your motivation runs out We’ve all been there. We feel unstoppable…until the inevitable happens. The new thing loses its luster, and the reality of the work involved sets in. As someone who has been providing accountability coaching for over a decade,...

We have several clients this year that are working on becoming better listeners. This is a hard one to quantify so I shared how a past client had approached it. She decided to give herself a listening score. She created a scale from 1-5 and then tracked how she did at...

Designing your year I started with a winding road, since it’s been my experience that every adventure has its twists and turns.  As I wrote in the months, it occurred to me that although the months are roughly the same length some are fuller than others - like May and...

I’ve long been captivated by the ideas presented in books like Essentialism and The One Thing. Keep it simple and cut out the noise. However, when you’ve been in business for over a decade, you can accumulate business clutter that slowly weighs you down, often without...

The Dread Not many people look forward to developing systems. In the business world there is a particular dread associated with creating SOPs. We know we need a system or process for how to onboard a new client or a new hire but creating it is no fun. However, having...

2026 Planning Week Our 2026 Planning Week is officially a wrap! We met with all our 12-week and 2026 cohort members to get their winter quarters and 1-year goals planned! I can personally attest to how good it feels to be organized, clear, and ready for the quarter...

Why the Best Kind of Fun (Type 2) Doesn’t Feel Like Fun at First I recently learned the term Type 2 Fun from a book I was reading about endurance athletes and I was intrigued because I found so many parallels in the description of what draws endurance athletes, to...