Reducing your forward momentum is the first step to freeing yourself from the beliefs, habits, feelings, and busyness that may be limiting you.

Where We Are Leverage your strengths, embrace your weaknesses, assert your differences, and pursue your passions. That’s the recipe for the tastiest and most nourishing year. And for a life that will satisfy and reward you. By avoiding a few pitfalls—fear of failure, paralysis, tunnel vision, the rush to judgment—you can keep eating well all year l

If we took a few minutes before the meeting to really think about it, we could drastically shorten it. So here’s the one thing you should think about as you transition leisurely (gasp) to your next commitment: How can I make this shorter, faster, and more productive? Even five or ten minutes of that kind of planning can shave thirty minutes off a t

When you have the sense you’ve made a mistake but you’ve already pushed so hard it would be embarrassing to back out, how do you backpedal? I have two strategies that help me pull back my own momentum: Slow Down and Start Over.

Only sometimes we get so absorbed in the trail—in how we’re going to achieve the goal, in our method or process—that we lose sight of the destination, of where we were going in the first place. We walk right by the opportunities that would have propelled us forward toward our planned destination.

never quit a diet while reading the dessert menu.

Each morning, I ask myself some questions: Am I prepared for this day? Prepared to make it a successful, productive day? Have I thought about it? Planned for it? Anticipated the risks that might take me off track? Will my plan for this day keep me focused on what my year is about?

It turns out while there’s a war going on between you and someone else, there’s another war going on in your brain between you and yourself. And that quiet internal battle is your prefrontal cortex trying to subdue your amygdala. Think of the amygdala as the little red person in your head with the pitchfork saying, “I vote we clobber the guy!” and

A daily plan helped me tremendously. I structured my day so it supported me in becoming the kind of consultant I wanted to become. That meant making explicit decisions, ahead of time, about where I would spend my time and where I wouldn’t. It meant lists and to-dos—but not too many—and a calendar that truly reflected who I was and what I was trying