With my clients, I spend time to fully understand the reasons behind each activity’s presence in their lives; then we come to an understanding of how to adjust their relationship with that activity to free up time for the lives they truly want.

So if a certain activity really matters to you—a creative project, say, though it could just as easily be nurturing a relationship, or activism in the service of some cause—the only way to be sure it will happen is to do some of it today, no matter how little, and no matter how many other genuinely big rocks may be begging for your attention. After

I didn’t know what I was supposed to do in terms of a business, but I knew the kind of person I wanted to be, and I made the decision to work on being that person. I wanted to be the person who explored her passions and purpose, instead of the person I’d become – the one who stood still, overthinking everything, which then led to frequent pangs of