THE HIGH STANDARD

One of the biggest traps I see my clients getting caught in when setting big goals or creating a big change in their lives is overfocusing on their current circumstances. It leads to a tunnel-vision that cripples them with frustration and discouragement. The cure for this?  Focusing on your trajectory.  When we focus on our current reality, not on our trajectory, we are forgetting that we all have an origin story and it’s really more about where we are headed than where we...

If you have been keeping up with me you might have heard that I recently had my brain broken at my children’s school, where I attended a talk by Dr. Carla Shalaby, a former teacher turned researcher, advocate, and innovative thought leader, who presented some truly thought-provoking ideas about how we teach young children. She challenged the traditional concept of "classroom management" and instead focused on teaching children the responsibility of freedom and accountability.

One of the...

Last week, I had the privilege of listening to Dr. Carla Shalaby share her insights on parenting and education. Her ideas were so thought-provoking that I felt my brain was being pushed to its limits,  – in the v way possible. (I plan to write more about my thoughts about those ideas as I digest them, and after I read her book, which you should also read- I may have also sent it to a friend as assigned reading before we go out to dinner together later this month...) Despite...

I was coaching a client the other day, who expressed some interest in starting her own business. She works in the medical field, and had a specific area of medicine where she saw patients really struggle, and she wants to figure out how to help those patients, a pain point with a great solution - the goal in entrepreneurship.

Now this client is brilliant, she is super smart, super well educated, two Ivy league degrees to be exact, and yet she said to me “I don’t have a brain for...

Goals aren’t just for achievement… When we set big goals we always fall short… But that’s not a problem… In fact, it is the way goals were designed.

I love setting big goals, and gym challenges are a great way to do just that!

I have been part of a gym challenge for the last 8 weeks where we are grouped in small groups, encouraging each other to keep to the exercise and food plan regimen both by having pre-arranged group workouts and a Facebook community....