Boundaries Around Work

Boundaries are a tool that are essential in the journey back to balance. As an overachiever, I had no boundaries around work. I worked from the time I woke up until I went to bed. If I wasn’t sitting in front of a computer, I was working in my head. I set boundaries and then

21 Signs That You are an Overachiever

Believe it or not, it took me less than 5 minutes to write this list as I looked in the mirror. These are the stories that we believe as overachievers…all of which lead us to believe that we are only worthy if we are achieving. Ouch #14. There is no relaxing or resting until the

Are you on the Apathy Train at Work?

On a scale of 1-10, what’s your engagement at work? I know that you are normally a determined and tenacious overachiever, but have you found yourself riding the apathy train lately? Are you phoning it in? I found myself on the apathy train more than a few times in my career. Almost every time it

Fear of Looking Stupid

Have you ever held back from asking for help because you didn’t want to look or feel stupid?  I’ve done this all my life. I start to feel unsafe when I don’t know something and I’m talking to a person who I’ve deemed to be an authority or expert. I immediately change the subject back

Focus is the Hocus Pocus

Focus is the hocus pocus with respect to changing how you manage your allocation of time each day. When you can focus and accomplish exactly what you planned, in the time that you allocated, you can eliminate the creation of time debt. Time debt is just like money debt, you have to pay it back

Put Your Electronic Input on a Fast

Intermittent fasting is quite the popular topic these days. There are lots of articles promoting the benefits of this type of eating including the fact that it’s more in line with our body’s natural rhythm.  It occurred to me a while ago that limiting any kind of consumption to a defined period would be an

Boredom as an Opportunity

What do you think about boredom? Is it something to be avoided at all costs? Do you immediately look for something productive to do to avoid being bored? As a Type A personality, this was definitely me. I remember my parents both told me repeatedly that “there’s always something that needs done, go find it”

Are you an Overachiever?

I’ve met a lot of Type A’s in my life, including the one I look at every day in the mirror. One thing we all have in common is that we are achievers. We like to set goals, we like to win, and we like to do it quickly without a lot of drama. We

Urgent! Urgent! Urgent!

The words of the Foreigner song Urgent come to mind when I think of my life. I urgently lived my life for as long as I can remember. There has always been a sense of urgency in everything that I do. My relationship with time was that it was scarce and if I wanted to

Molting Your Way to Calm

Did you know that we have tens of thousands of habits that are on autopilot? These run the gambit from habitual thought patterns that we always think to habitual routines that we always do. The sum of all of these is called our self concept. Our belief of who we are…right now. In order to