Breaking the Perfectionism-Procrastination Infinite Loop
Putting it off doesn’t make it go away. Getting it done does. — Ned Hallowell, Driven to Distraction You get out of the meeting with your client, full of ideas and energy about what you’re going to do next. You commit to a deadline for ideas, a proposal, designs — some kind of deliverable to […]
Is Your Inner Critic Too Loud? Tune It Out!
“Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer.” — W. H. Auden, poet In the past, the Inner Critic may have seemed like a huge, intimidating presence in your mind, with your stringent self-criticisms appearing as if they are the […]
How to Reclaim Time and Create Mental Space
In our age of distraction and overwhelm, it’s all too easy to forget that time is a mental construct, and what our brains are actually keeping track of is where we put our attention. If you have simply too much going on to be creative, then you need to shift attention, especially as the management […]
The Art of Plussing People’s Ideas By Using “Yes, And”
“None of us is as smart as all of us.” — Kenneth H. Blanchard, author and management expert Feelings of deficiency can foster competitiveness and jealousy, which tend to shut down your creativity. When we are overcome with feeling like we don’t know enough and that we’ll never be able to keep up with our […]
Hack Confirmation Bias: Keep a Kudos File
“The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it.” — Dr. Robert […]
