I recently read a piece by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, about the release of ChatGPT-5. What struck me was his reasoning for making the update widely available to all users, not just paid subscribers: “Use becomes habit. Habit becomes infrastructure.” That...

In three different conversations this week, the inner striver came up. I was fascinated by the use of this word and the feeling that was being conveyed. Essentially, your inner striver is telling you to push harder, go faster, get it all done.  Personally, I’m super...

Part 3: Doing Less of What You Don’t Want to Do What if you had permission to do less?  So many of us carry a long to-do list packed with obligations we didn’t consciously choose. Don’t think about doing less as a proclamation of laziness. It’s not. It’s about...

Part 2: Consuming Less I’ve been thinking a lot about my personal consumption ever since I broke up with Amazon and realized we were buying a lot of stuff we didn’t need. To the annoyance of my kids and the reluctant support of my husband, we’ve limited our Amazon...

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...