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Beat the Odds: 10x Your Goal-Setting Success

Accountability: The Secret to Success with Your 2025 Goals Every January, we kick-start new goals with energy and optimism, only to find ourselves slipping by “Quitters’ Day” (typically the second Friday of January, when most resolutions fail). But what if you could 10x your likelihood of success? Turns out, there’s a formula to make that happen… and it’s simpler than you think (no real math required 😅). A study by the Association for Talent Development highlights the power of accountability:...

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The start of a new year is the perfect time to adopt a habit that can transform your life. Unlike the many “lifestyle habits” that flood your feed in January, this one offers a deeper, more intentional benefit by combining structure with mindfulness. A ritual is a regular action or behavior that is performed consistently and intentionally, with awareness, purpose & meaning. Rituals provide structure to our lives (particularly helpful during uncertainty or high stress) and that structure alone...

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If you hit your goals on paper in 2024 and it still feels like something is missing, this is for you. Because “success” doesn’t always feel successful. If your wins don’t align with what fulfills you, they’ll always feel a little hollow. Simply setting bigger goals for 2025 won’t do the trick. You’re a high-achiever, so you’ll hit those goals too… but you’ll be stuck in the same trap of psuedo-success until you set the right goals. The right goals for you. Goals that are rooted in what YOU...

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The Holiday Season Can Be Hard… for so many people and so many reasons. Old family dynamics resurface. The roles we’ve worked so hard to grow beyond suddenly feel like they’re set in stone again. And there you are, a fully-functioning adult who is suddenly fourteen again. Expectations, ours and others’, press in from all sides. It can be easy to lose sight of who you’ve become when you’re surrounded with reminders of, and tethers to, who you used to be. So, how can you stay grounded and...

When we talk about boundaries, the conversation often focuses on saying “no”. And no is really important… but it’s not the only option. I know it’s popular to say “if it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell no” and I would agree, that’s an excellent approach… when there’s no risk of shooting yourself in the foot. For example, sometimes as a founder you’re going to get requests from potential or current investors & prospective or active clients to which you shouldn’t just deliver a hard no… even if...

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My first business was an artisan chocolates company. At the peak of its success, as we were shipping chocolates by the case nationwide, getting covered in the New York Times and Food & Wine Magazine and celebrating a front page article in the Wall Street Journal nine days before Christmas… I used to pull up to the commercial kitchen every morning and fantasize about firebombing the building. Not literally, of course. But also, kinda. It’s a common phenomenon among founders and business owners...

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Every year, I feel like I crawl across the finish line of October, beaten, battered, exhausted and with an absolute train wreck of an office. It’s always, by far, my hardest and most exhausting month… a combination of celebrating both kids’ birthdays (and Ollie’s famiversary) helping my oldest prep to pitch in the Young Inventors Challenge, facilitating multiple annual planning offsites for clients, oh, and to cap it all off, Halloween. Not to mention, you know, all the usual things. I...

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This issue covers: 7 Signs you’re experiencing an identity shift Warning flags that you might be in crisis mode 3 Business Frameworks to turn Personal Transitions into Platforms for Growth: Personal SWOT Analysis Gap Analysis Balanced Scorecard During the past week, I launched my website (finally!)… and the very next day, I began the process of completely overhauling it. I participated in a design thinking workshop for a startup building a solution to support other founders with the wind down...

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The devastation unfolding this week in Western North Carolina is both unspeakably tragic & utterly mind-blowing. It has been hard to process for so many of us because of the scale of the devastation and the fact that it was an absolute mindf**k. How could a hurricane do so much damage in mountainous terrain so far from a coastline?! We never expected it. I was talking to my father about it early this week. My parents live in Asheville half the year and in Miami the other half. They and their...

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This past week I lost my sh*t with my boys on two separate occasions. Over-tired, under-appreciated and flimsy boundaries are a tough combination to begin with… add in time pressure for me and it’s a recipe for explosion. And for disappointment. That is not how I want to show up. But was it a failure? That depends on how I look at it and how readily I can access my resilience. Resilience /rəˈzilēəns/ the capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. If I tap into...