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Feeling at Capacity? Ask for Help.

Lately I’ve been worried that I’m forgetting to do something. That thought would come like a sneak attack during an otherwise happy day or peaceful night’s sleep and set my heart racing. It turned out I was right, but not in the way I feared. Getting to the Answer “What’s…

Allison EvansFebruary 9, 2023

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If You Hate Resolutions (but Still Desire Change)

Me at age 10: the year I starting hating resolutions. “I don’t want to set a resolution,” my client said at our first meeting of the new year. “I don’t like goals, either. They always fail.”Strong emotion almost always hides a desire for the thing being rejected: my client wanted…

Allison EvansJanuary 26, 2023

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Set Your New Year Intentions

Intentions are the cool older cousin of New Year’s Resolutions – the one you only see once a year because she lives at the beach in California with her free-spirited mom, but they always come home for the holidays. New Year’s Resolutions are about hard work, willpower, and fixing what’s…

Allison EvansDecember 22, 2022

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Your Mission Chose You. Why?

Last week I wrote about aligning yourself with your mission instead of with the voices in your head that want you to play small and stay safe. When you are mission-conscious instead of self-conscious, you can play bigger – do things that feel risky, like, say, marketing if you’re a small…

Allison EvansNovember 4, 2022

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It’s Not About You

Do you have a mission? The word mission comes from the Latin mittere, which means send – as in to be sent out into the world on assignment, to spread the word and create change.The women in my Be the Heroine coaching group either have a mission or are making themselves…

Allison EvansOctober 21, 2022

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Befriending Intuition: More on When to Doubt Your Doubts

This photo was taken the night Mom and Dad met. They saw each other across a crowded room, turned to their companions, and said, “That’s the one I’m going to marry.” One month later, they did marry, and they stayed married, devotedly, 55 years, until my mother’s death from cancer…

Allison EvansJuly 30, 2022

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When You’re Tempted to Quit, Ask These Questions

My twin brother, Jack, visited recently. It was our birthday, and we like to spend it together if we can. We turned 51 and were feeling philosophical. What had we each done, and what did we still want to do, with our one wild and precious life? Jack raised two…

Allison EvansJuly 15, 2022

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To Increase Productivity, Get to the Root of Procrastination

Another stumbling block to productivity is procrastination. From the Latin for “belonging to tomorrow,” procrastination is delaying doing what you intended to do. Why do we do it? It is a maddening behavior – the immediate relief feels great but is short-lived. Ultimately, procrastination corrodes your faith in yourself. The…

Allison EvansMarch 30, 2022

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To Increase Productivity, Learn to Say No

We’re in an era where we recognize that we’re too busy, but we don’t know how to let it go. Time management and efficiency strategies have taken us as far as they can, but they have not resulted in more free time and less stress. In a recent New York…

Allison EvansMarch 25, 2022

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