For years, I tried to “manage my time.” Color-coded calendars. Notebooks - analog and digital. Pomodoro method etc. All of it promised to optimize my life. How to control your day! And still… my days felt scattered. I would start in one place and end in five others. An email would turn into a pricing debate. A pricing debate would turn into a data cleanup project. A data cleanup project would remind me of a conversation I needed to have. By 3 p.m., I felt busy and behind at the same time. I...

If saying “no” sends a bolt of panic down your spine…If advocating for yourself feels like you’re somehow being rude, selfish, or “too much”… Then you’re not alone and you are not broken. The biggest thing you learn from the book Fawning by Ingrid Clayton is People-Pleasing is a Survival Skill Clayton expands on the concept originally coined by Pete Walker: Fawning is a way we seek safety in the face of exploitation, shame, neglect, abuse, or other harm. We all know fight, flight, and freeze....

Ambition is how you multiply value - for yourself, your company, your community, your family....