“The strife is o’er,” as the hymn goes — I’m all done recording the Work Consciously Audio Course.  I’m writing up the “liner notes” right now — that’s what I like to call them, anyway, because it has me feel like I’m releasing a rock and roll album.
In the meantime, I’d like to share with you [...]

When I speak to a group, I almost always get questions about e-mail.  “I just get so much e-mail at work and I don’t know what to do with it,” people say.  Worse yet, they’ve usually tried several e-mail organizing systems, and the overwhelm they’re feeling hasn’t gone away.
I think this is because a lot of [...]

I shudder a little when I think about some of my old working habits.  One of these habits was to do what I now call “pushing the moment.”  When I’d be under time pressure, or I just wanted a task off my plate quickly, I’d tighten up my shoulders as I worked — as if [...]

(Inspired by a comment I left on Stacey Shipman’s great post about me-time)
One common complaint I hear from people is that they don’t get enough “me time.”  That is, they spend too much time doing things for others, and not enough serving their own wants and needs, and they feel tired and resentful as a [...]

There’s a simple question I’ve found it useful to ask myself, whenever I find myself getting stressed or tense, which is:  “Am I really in danger right now?”  When I do this, most of the time, I quickly realize the answer is no, and my body relaxes again.
This exercise has helped me see how many situations in my [...]