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Daily Improvement Depends on Less Being More
My day started with errands. Not how I usually start my day but I decided to start there first because I needed to move a few items off of my list. I thought that I could start my day, once I returned to my office, except that I was mentally spent. So I took a…
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Are you incarcerated by thresholds?
My day was full. I did a fair amount regarding a home project I’m working on, had some things to sort out with my car and I handled a few things that had been sitting for longer than they should have. Once home, I glanced at the clock and felt the day close in on…
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Always Overestimate the Time it Takes to Complete a Task or Project
Chin-Ning Chu is one of my favorite authors. I first heard about her, when Dan Kennedy recommended Thick Face Black Heart as an essential read in cultivating the right mindset. The book fuses the wisdom of the East and West, and explores how ancient Asian battle strategies and cultural mindsets can be applied today to…
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Are you driving your goals or are conditions driving you?
Some attachments don’t look like attachments at all. They look like discipline, growth or self care… a healthy desire for quiet, space… a perfectly mapped out day envisioned… lists complete, categorized and prioritized. Let this day begin. And then life steps in. Nothing catastrophic but your schedule shifts, the timing is off, the atmosphere isn’t…
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Life Cannot Be Postponed While Realizing a Vision
Yesterday I wrote about daily evolution as the steady closing of the gap between what we know and how we live. About alignment not as an event, but as a practice that compounds quietly. Today the angle is different, because even disciplined evolution can become another form of postponement if we are not careful. There…
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How to Let Go of ‘Singing for your Supper’
The phrase ‘singing for your supper’, is older than the modern workplace and far older than LinkedIn ambition. In medieval towns, wandering minstrels arrived with no contract and no guarantee of welcome. If they wanted to eat, they performed. A song bought a bowl of stew. A story earned bread and butter. The arrangement was…
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The Much Overlooked Discipline of Taking a Break
We talk a lot about discipline as if it only lives in grit, in late nights, in pushing past limits and proving something to the version of ourselves that keeps score. But there is another discipline, quieter and far less glamorous, that almost never makes the motivational posters. The discipline of stepping away. The discipline…
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How Do You Design Your Day?
Most people design their day around habits they’ve been told are “good.” Be disciplined about all of it! And when it doesn’t work, they assume the problem is them. But what if the issue isn’t discipline at all? What if it’s design? Over time, I’ve learned that people don’t fail at productivity. They fail at…
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Can You Align Your Professional and Personal Purpose?
In an Atlantic article “The New Old Age” (by David Brooks, Aug 2023), we meet people who’ve spent decades in high-powered careers — CEOs, prosecutors, doctors — suddenly confronting a sobering truth: their professional résumés no longer define them. David Brooks, shares Anne Kenner’s story — a former federal prosecutor who walked into Stanford’s Distinguished…
Clarity BEFORE Execution. Structure BEFORE Speed
If you could better understand one thing about your business right now….
Most costly decisions begin with
an inaccurate understanding of the situation.
I help leaders understand what is actually happening before major decisions are made or
resources are invested in solving the wrong problem.
Giselle Hudson | Pre-Decision Diagnostic Advisor | Sensemaking for high-stakes business decisions 