Productivity and Performance
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Every December, my friend Chad DeAbreu at TradeBrain asks me to run an End of Year Reflection and Planning Session for his clients and friends. It's always such a delight because he is inviting his people to take a rare pause and stop chasing the carrot. To think ahead, pulling...
No matter how diligent we are, we all crave the quick fix when we're in survival mode. We want to solve problems fast—lord knows there are so many. We want freedom from the pain of unresolved tasks, projects, and performance issues. And sometimes we think taking a shortcut is the way to peace of min...
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I’ve become acutely aware lately of how easily we become addicted to feeling like victims—and how often I still fall into that trap myself.
As a young adult, feeling like a victim felt natural, even justified. My upbringing taught me that life wasn’t fair, that the odds were s...
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One of the most natural parts of my coaching work is guiding clients toward honesty and transparency—but not as abstract ideals. These are core practices in Groundwork, essential for moving out of survival mode and into clarity, presence, and intentional action.
Radical honest...
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The reason I teach people to drop into their pain is because when pain lingers in the background of our lives, it quietly undermines our capacity to get things done.
When we’re caught in the grip of fear, anger, sadness, or hurt—even in subtle ways—it blocks the flow of hope a...
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When I was in college—before I dropped out and went to Silicon Valley—I was convinced something was wrong with me. All throughout school I struggled to retain information for exams. Sitting at a desk was torture.
But everything shifted when I found philosophy and humanities....
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I’ve recently been refocusing on growing Groundwork after some devastating life events forced me to slow down last year. At the time, I was on a roll—until a fall shattered a disk in my lower back and brought everything to a halt. Sometimes life does that. It forces us onto roa...
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When I was in my early 20s, I was in the middle of a massive learning curve. I was trying to become a better person and found myself hungry for personal development work. Along the way, I absorbed countless lessons on the value of living with personal integrity. Learning to tak...
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It can feel completely impossible to keep our heads above water when the sheer volume of work is out of control. When even one area of life starts to overflow, it becomes difficult to maintain perspective or stay focused on what matters. Every minute of the day turns into a b...
Confronted with recent world events—both globally and close to home—I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to thrive in times like these. How do we stay engaged in the face of injustice while protecting our peace of mind? How much news can we absorb before we’re paralyzed by helplessness? What...
The reason I love my work is because I’m obsessed with growth. When I love my life, it’s because I’m growing.
As a kid raised in survival mode, I had a distinct motivation to want better. And the first piece of real wisdom that kicked in early on was this: if I want better, I have to be better.
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As I get ready to head to Hollyhock this week to lead the annual Groundwork Masterclass Retreat—this year titled Peace In Action—I’m thinking about all the people who’ve shown up to retreat overwhelmed by life, carrying a quiet hopelessness that maybe things can’t be different....
