How do you know when you are making progress? This week I took a deep dive into an interesting book called The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer. The book is based on research...

Simple Changes for a Less Stressed You Last year, I had to change a lot about the way I worked. A health crisis will force you to do all those things you’ve been meaning to put into practice but didn't. Mostly, it taught me to manage stress. As an accountability...

Marissa and I decided to re-imagine the team offering that we had first introduced in 2020. We knew in order to effect the kind of change we were hoping to see throughout companies and culture we weren’t going to be able to coach individual team members. Instead, we...

I was recently reading Arthur C. Brooks book, From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life, and he mentioned an equation for satisfaction. Intrigued? So was I. According to Brooks the equation for satisfaction...

This week we are happy to share our AW Member Q+A with Erika Westhoff. Erika is in her second year of our small group program and we’ve so appreciated the energy she brings to her group. One of the things that has stood out to me in observing Erika is how willing she...

You've been getting the message that rest is important. But how are you doing at making rest a habit? Here are some simple strategies for prioritizing rest and your well-being.  1. Identify What Type of Rest You Need Last year, I shared this graphic on the 7 Types of...

Spring 2023: Quarterly Reflection + Planning We are wrapping up our winter quarter and getting all our members prepped for Spring 2023 Planning. We thought you might like to follow along with our quarterly reflection and planning pages out of our AW 1-Year Undated...

Setting boundaries effectively is an important skill Setting boundaries effectively is an important skill. And like any skill it is something that you can learn to do and that you can improve upon at any time. The topic of boundaries came up recently for me, as I...

Today our Accountability Coach Q+A is with Becky Brown. Becky went through our coach certification in 2021 and has been coaching for AW for the last two years. She is a graduate of Duke’s Health Coach Professional Training program and holds a Lifestyle Medicine Coach...