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Spring Cleaning for Your Mind: Letting Go of Mental Clutter
In this post, we’ll explore how to recognize when you’re mentally cluttered, why emotional decluttering is essential for your mental wellbeing, and practical steps you can take to clean up your mind. Plus, we’ll explore how performance coaching can help you achieve lasting change and help you live with greater clarity and calm.
The Truth about High Achievers: Six Traits of Achievers Revealed.
In a world that celebrates hustle and success, overachievers are often revered as the epitome of success and dedication. High achievers are the ones who consistently go above and beyond, pushing themselves to exceed expectations and achieve more. While this relentless drive often leads to impressive accomplishments, it typically comes at a steep personal cost too. Most high performers and overachievers I work with look wildly successful by outward appearances. Internally though, they’re barely treading water. If you’re a high achiever and this resonates for you, keep reading and we’ll uncover what’s really going on below the surface as well as how you can keep accomplishing great things without losing yourself or feeling like you’re treading water every day.
Entrepreneurship: The Five Unique Challenges Entrepreneurs face.
Being an entrepreneur requires you to wear multiple hats, generally at the same time, which can feel chaotic and overwhelming. You’re not just the founder managing big picture business decisions, but you might also be client-facing in a customer service role, managing accounting and payroll, and so much more based on your specific business. For many entrepreneurs, especially high performers who want to do it all, the pressure to do all the things and do them well can become overwhelming. And when you’re juggling so many things, it’s easy to lose focus, get stuck in a cycle of stress, and even burnout. Let’s dive into the common struggles entrepreneurs face and how a career coach can help you overcome them.
How to Effectively Manage your Time and Delegate.
For many entrepreneurs, high performers, and leaders the pursuit of excellence often leads to taking on more and more responsibility, believing that the only way you can succeed is to do it yourself. The “do it myself” mentality is a slippery slope that inevitably leads to increased stress levels and the potential for burnout. To maintain peak performance without sacrificing well-being, it’s crucial to learn how to delegate effectively. One powerful tool that can help high performers and entrepreneurs delegate tasks to their teams is the Eisenhower Matrix.
The Art of Delegation: How High Achievers Can Relinquish Responsibility While Still Thriving Professionally.
High achievers pride themselves on their ability to juggle multiple tasks, handle complex projects, and ultimately control the direction of our careers and personal lives. But while this drive for excellence can be a valuable asset, it also comes with a significant drawback: burnout. In the quest to do it all, many high-achievers neglect the critical skill of delegation. However, the art of delegation—trusting others to take on important tasks—is one of the most effective strategies for conserving your energy, enhancing productivity, and ultimately thriving in your career.
How Perfectionism and Impostor Syndrome Hold High-Achievers Back in Their Careers.
High-achievers and over-performers are often admired for their relentless pursuit of excellence. Whether in the corporate world, creative industries, or entrepreneurship, high-performers are the ones who go above and beyond, consistently surpassing expectations and setting new benchmarks of success. However, behind the accolades and the impressive results, many high-performers quietly struggle with a deeply ingrained fear of not being good enough. This internal conflict is often fueled by two powerful forces: perfectionism and impostor syndrome.
Why Saying ‘No’ is the Ultimate Self-Care Hack for High Achievers
High achievers are wired to take on as much as possible. They love challenges, want to excel, and are eager to make a difference. If you’re a high achiever, it’s easy to feel like saying “yes” to every opportunity or request will prove your worth and advance your career. But here’s the truth: constantly saying "yes" can actually hold you back. It’s not just about overloading yourself with work—it’s about missing out on the self-care that you truly need to thrive.
Learning to say “no” is one of the most powerful forms of self-care you can practice. It’s not about rejecting opportunities or being selfish—it’s about protecting your energy, staying focused on what truly matters, and making space for yourself. The more you embrace saying “no,” the more you’ll find that you can be your best self, both at work and in life.
Let’s explore why saying “no” is not just a boundary—it’s a game-changing tool for enhancing your well-being and productivity.
How to Set Realistic New Year Career Goals for 2025 (Without Losing Your Sanity)
Ah, New Year’s. The time of year when we're all totally ready to leave behind the chaos of the past 12 months and hit the ground running with our shiny, perfectly organized goals for the year ahead. But here’s the thing: if you're someone who struggles with perfectionism, over-performing, and imposter syndrome, then setting New Year’s career goals can feel like a pressure cooker about to explode.
How Work-From-Home Professionals Can Successfully Unplug from Their Jobs and Prioritize Self-Care
The convenience of working from home is undeniable—there’s no commute, greater flexibility, and the comfort of being in your own space. However, as work-from-home professionals, the line between professional and personal life can often become blurred. Many professionals find themselves answering emails late at night, working through weekends, or neglecting their mental and physical well-being, sacrificing their self-care in the name of productivity. If you’re a work-from-home professional, it is possible to achieve professional success while also taking care of yourself. Here are five actionable strategies to help you unplug from your job and make self-care a priority.
Slowing Down the Holiday Hurry: How to Prioritize Yourself During the Holidays
The holidays are often a time of joy, celebration, and connection, but the holidays can also provide a whirlwind of responsibilities, expectations, and stress. Between family gatherings, work obligations, and the pressure to be everywhere at once, it’s easy to lose sight of your own well-being. As a career coach, I’ve seen how many high-achieving clients struggle with setting boundaries and prioritizing self-care during this time. But here’s the truth: prioritizing yourself during the holidays is not selfish—it’s absolutely essential.
Time-Management Tips to Boost Productivity.
We’re all familiar with the age-old dilemma of how to best manage our time. If you feel that time management is an enticing but elusive practice this blog will break down simple but effective ways of managing your time that you can begin to enact immediately.
The power of non-negotiables.
I was recently watching an episode of the newest season of The Bear. In this episode, one of the lead characters, Chef Carmy, writes out his non-negotiables for the kitchen. When he presents the list to the other restaurant stakeholders they are vehemently opposed to the non-negotiables but Chef Carmy remains firm that the non-negotiables are just that…non-negotiable.
Traits of Highly Successful People.
Most of my client’s come to me looking to enact change, create personal freedoms, or get unstuck in some capacity. They want to move from inaction to action, they want to feel and be successful in their lives and careers. Fortunately, over the years as a therapist and coach I’ve had the privilege of working with some remarkable people who have created amazing results in their lives. And I want to share with you a list of qualities that I’ve encountered when working with highly successful people.
Breaking Down the Consistency Myth.
Let's talk about the consistency myth. Most perceive consistency as a linear process. The assumption is that you set a goal, take forward action, and then achieve the goal. Easy, right?
Four Reasons you Struggle with Change as a High Achiever.
Change is hard. However, if you’re a high achiever, here are four things that may be impacting your ability to navigate change.
Stressed Out? 3 Ways to Realistically Find Balance.
Have you ever been told by your doctor that you need to manage your stress levels? You probably nod along in agreement but think to yourself “what does ‘work on my stress’ actually mean?” For most people there’s some confusion and even overwhelm about translating the idea of managing stress into a realistic and effective practice.
I am here to help you break down the question of “what does work on my stress mean” and provide you with three realistic actions you can take to better manage your stress levels.
Are You Preparing or Delaying?
The reality is our brain loves to keep us safe, that’s its main job. So when you decide to set a goal and go for it your brain goes into overdrive anticipating all the ways things could go wrong, how you might fail, how you might look dumb if you don’t succeed.
What to do when you’re not getting the results you want.
Back when I was a competitive figure skater I was a few weeks out from a big competition. As I was preparing and doing run throughs of my programs in the weeks leading up to the competition things were not going well. I was messing up on elements that were normally very easy for me. I could feel the confidence leaving my body with every element that I missed. I remember leaving the practice facility one day feeling completely defeated and I remembered saying to my coach, “nothing is working, I should just withdraw.”
5 signs you’re burnt out and what to do about it.
Let’s rewind to the last week of December 2020. I was working full-time as a therapist seeing 30-35 clients per week in the wake of the pandemic and I was not ok. The last week of December I was sobbing to my mom on the phone, complaining of a host of physical ailments that were abnormal for me.
I was burnt-out and I didn’t know it.
In fact, most people who are burnt out don’t know it.
The Case for Progress over Perfection.
Perfection. We’ve all chased it at some point in our lives.
But guess what? None of us ever achieve it. So, why do we keep running after it? Well, for starters perfection is alluring. It symbolizes a heightened level of wisdom, beauty, knowledge, experience…fill in the blank.
But let me hit you with three truths about perfection.
