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To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. Planning tends to get filed under productivity and control – a type-A thing, an efficiency thing, something you do to squeeze more out of your day. And there’s some truth to that. But the deeper reason behind why I plan has nothing to […]

To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. We tend to treat limited time and energy as the enemy – something to push against, work around, or refuse to acknowledge. But embracing constraints doesn’t slow you down or hamper your ambition. I’d argue it forces clarity, creativity, and progress in ways […]

To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. Sometimes we have a goal that’s worth pushing hard for. Most of what I talk about here is doing less – getting your workload in line with your capacity so life actually feels manageable, but there are times when the goals we want […]

To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. We live in a culture that glorifies the hustle, and early in my legal career, I was fully bought in. So when a senior associate I deeply respected criticized constant weekend work as poor case management, it stopped me in my tracks. If […]

To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. Oftentimes, planning gets categorized as less valuable than the work we should be doing. So if you’ve been skipping your planning session because you don’t think you can bill for it, or if you don’t bill for your time but find your planning […]

To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. A friend of mine sent a message in a group chat: “Is AI making anybody else’s ADHD symptoms feel worse?” I get what she means. Let’s kick off a conversation about why AI makes us feel this way and what we can do […]

To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. If you have an ever-different schedule due to your work schedule, a partner’s, or something else, the Bright Method may sound like it wouldn’t work for you (after all, I talk a lot about calendaring repetative things), but it SHINES for people like […]

To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. One week. That’s how long a contractor’s email had been sitting in Kelly’s inbox, waiting on a reply. Her first reaction was the familiar one: I teach time management, I should’ve responded faster. Then she stopped herself, because the email wasn’t a priority, […]

To listen to Apple, click here; to listen on Spotify, click here. A client said it like it was just a fact: if she pushed back on new work, those clients would take their business elsewhere and never come back. Kelly heard it, recognized the fear behind it, and also recognized she’d spent years operating […]