Why You’re Not Following Through on Your Goals (Intention-Behavior Gap)

When we set a goal, most of us never follow through on it, let alone achieve it. Failing our goals is so common that New Year’s resolutions are almost seen as a joke: “Let’s see if I can stick to this one – bad track record so far, haha”.  Despite Nike telling us to “just […]

How to make habits stick for good

Habits are the key to automating your goals. When I set goals with coaching clients, we turn each of them into 1–3 tiny habits. Habits are the HOW that will get us to the end result the client wants. The beauty of habits is that once they’re established, they require little effort and willpower on […]

The Beauty of a New Beginning

As I’m tyipng this early in the morning, I have a cup of strong black tea to my right and a bowl of cream puffs to my left. My desk looks like it’s just another ordinary day (minus the cream puffs, maybe), but if you were to look behind me you’d see a telltale mess […]

When Setting Goals Stresses You Out

Goals usually fizzle out. By the end of the year, we don’t even remember them. What were your goals for 2017? I’ve never really had set goals and when I did, I didn’t know what to do with them once they were written down. The problem with goals is not just that we don’t achieve […]

Intentions For A New Year. But First, Celebrate What You’ve Done

In the thrill of starting a new year and the dutiful goal setting that can come with it, it’s easy to reach for things that are entirely absent in our lives right now: Going to the gym three times a week when you’ve worked out 4 times in the last three months Writing every day […]

Coachey Exercise: Write Your Future Bio

If you are in your twenties or find yourself in some other form of confusion you might be pondering the question of who you want to be. It doesn’t have to be a drastic feeling of “I need to change EVERYTHING about my life”, it might just be realizing that your job bores you or […]

Everything you want to be is a habit

I’ve had this thought recently how every big change, any big vision we have for the person we want to be is really all about building habits. So for example, if I want to be a strong, fit person, then I need to work out in some form regularly. I would argue that you can pull out […]

when you can’t make changes fast enough

I used to feel this glaring gap between where I was and where I wanted to be with my life. When we discover the self-improvement track, I guess we all start out with some sort of vision board and a determination to “create your ideal life”. All over sudden you realize that you really do have a choice as to what […]

Manifesting apartments & why setting intentions is always a good idea

Let’s say you want to move in with your boyfriend. You’re on a budget and maybe you have a dog too. Your options are limited, or so it seems. Having a home is really important to you, and you’d love for it to be cozy and maybe have hardwood floors. But that’s just ridiculous because […]