Get it Before It’s Gone Like any natural planner, I like to keep an eye on the whirling calendar pages to make sure I don’t miss an opportunity to maximize life. Things like a year-end review, and a new-year-strategy session are treats I look forward to, making space for ritual and rigor alike. I’ll probably…
Stress doesn’t have to kill us. But sometimes we need a rescue from the chaos that has swallowed us. Learning how to respond well to stress allows us to stay energized enough to care for others, rather than being burnt out and irritable. It also allows us to work smarter and be more engaged and…
Building a Deep Work Practice: Week 1 Have you ever heard of a “Deep Work Practice”? This week we’re launching a Summer Live content series called Build a Deep Work Practice. Why do we care about deep work? Because deep work* is a huge part of Finding your Wild Rhythm and experiencing Epic Growth! If you’re…
Sometimes making progress involves lots of changes. So why not change it all at once? Often, we don’t just need one thing to be better; several things need to change. People often ask me what the research says about forming habits. Is it better to just focus on changing one thing at a time, or…
Introducing “Work Happy” Here at Wild + Brave, we believe that your experience of work matters. Being engaged at work is a key ingredient to living a vibrant life. We also believe that if we do not learn to engage with work in a vibrant way, we will be caught in a waiting pattern and…
To set October off on the right foot, I went exploring. Not big exploring for weeks on end, out in the middle of nowhere. But close exploring in a tiny patch of Wild Florida I hadn’t seen in my 33 years as a native. If you’re used to cities having more than 100 people in…
We all need to get things done. So what do we do? We make a checklist! If you’re like me, you’ve had days where there are a half dozen, half-finished checklists hanging around. I’ve had days where I took a stack of these miserable lists, and used them to create a new checklist…one so long…
Off the Beaten Path I’ve been spending a lot of time in 4 Wheel Drive. Dirt roads have been the good roads in a lot of the places I’ve visited lately. Often, the roads through Colorado, Utah, and Arizona have been built of rocks, gravel, ravines, and broken slabs of clay. “Why do you do this?” …
Going the Distance When I was young, my dad loved to hike and explore the woods and he invited me to go with him. As a youngster, I always started hiking with enthusiasm, but I didn’t always want to go the distance with him. Even though I had told my dad that I really wanted…
The Squeeze It isn’t always the problems in our lives that create stress, eat our time, and make us wonder if we’re going to make it. Sometimes we work so hard to GET an opportunity that when it arrives, TAKING the opportunity puts us on overload. It’s “Good Stress.” The same stress can pop up anytime…