The goal is to always be able to answer the question, “what am I doing right now?”

For some, the New Year may not exactly feel like a fresh start. Over the holiday break I spent time thinking about the people in my life who hope that 2024 is better for them than 2023 was, for mostly personal reasons. So if you're like them and you're in the thick of it right now, but you hope a new leaf does get turned this year eventually, consider these ideas.

How can take something that you'd like to accomplish on a regular basis and systematize it so that it's more likely to become established and integrated?

What a jigsaw puzzle can teach us about leadership qualities and how to apply them to our teams.

Taking time to surrender allows us to connect to our individual essence.

If your life is made up of roughly 4,000 weeks, you don't have time, but rather, your life is this time. If your life is time, then you are time.

We often hold our work time and our "time outside of work" in tension. It's easy to see them as competitors, each leeching time from the other and experiencing both as less satisfying than we'd like.

I invite you to shift the paradigm, away from work and life in a tug of war, to energy cycles of performance and recovery. Of putting out energy and then recharging.

Last Friday night, I was cooking dinner. The news was playing on the smart speaker, the kids were playing downstairs. I was scrolling through my phone while cooking, cycling between LinkedIn, Facebook and two email accounts.