Our environment has an impact on everything we do from washing dishes to coding to playing with a puppy. If we are intentional about shaping our environment, we can make hard tasks easy and easy tasks even easier. In other words, environment matters. When I talk about environment here I Read more…
Have you ever been faced with learning a new thing and it was like staring into the abyss? Everything seems complicated and confusing, and you keep going down rabbit holes that end with more questions than answers. This was how I felt trying to dive into a project on a Read more…
Stuck on one task? Switch tracks, don’t stop. Ever find yourself staring at your computer screen, unable to write that important email or code that feature you’ve been working on? Your brain feels foggy, your focus is scattered, and you’re starting to feel frustrated with your lack of progress. We’ve Read more…
Want to know the secret to improving your productivity? Create an environment where you can actually be productive. A lot of our time is spent figuring out what needs to be done and distractions and context switching while we’re figuring this out makes everything take longer. Once we’ve figured out Read more…
Imagine you’re driving down the road and you see this huge, scraggly tree that kind of looks like a hand beckoning you. It’s a really weird tree and you’re staring at it when you suddenly feel a bump bump bump. You’ve just run over the uneven ground on the side Read more…
It’s easy to lose sight of your goal as you go about your day-to-day tasks and become entrenched in the details of your projects. However, this can be a slippery slope to losing motivation and alignment. It’s important to keep your overarching goal as visible and prominent as possible. This Read more…
Where is your focus? If your answer is more than one thing, you may not actually be focusing at all! The definition of focus as a noun is “a point of concentration”. A point. Not two points, not three or four or five, a singular point of concentration. As our Read more…