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Woman Sitting, Fingers Hovering Above a Keyboard

I was on retreat last week at The School for The Work. The Work is one of my favorite practices for finding clarity and freedom in daily life. The Work is a meditation. It doesn’t look like a meditation because it’s four questions, and questions look like cognitive tasks. But…

Allison EvansNovember 14, 2023

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One Hundred Years

This thing you’re struggling to do, what if you knew you had one hundred years to do it? I came across this idea in Zen Mind, Zen Horse: The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horses, by Allan J. Hamilton, M.D. A rancher had a horse that got spooked by…

Allison EvansOctober 30, 2023

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How’s Your Work-Life Balance?

I was surprised to discover (in my early 20s) that I didn’t like being in the Navy. I had looked forward to serving in the military for so long. What was going on?I knew it wasn’t my colleagues. I loved them. It was the culture: aggressive, black-and-white, fast-moving, demanding, pitiless.…

Allison EvansAugust 29, 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

Stop Suffering, Start Living

Dear Worth It

Dear Allison,I’m considering Be the Heroine, but I have a few concerns. What if I can’t make all the meetings? My schedule is already full, and I’m not sure I can add another thing to it. Also, I’ve invested in other programs before and didn’t get the results I wanted.…

Allison EvansDecember 1, 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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Do What’s Important

Are you busy all the time but still feel unproductive? I recently wrote about overcoming overwhelm using my teacher Martha Beck’s 3B’s: take each item on your to-do list and bag it (decide not to do it), barter it (have someone else do it for you while you do something…

Allison EvansOctober 6, 2020

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Overcome Overwhelm for Good

A lot of the coaching I do is about coaxing insight: the client is stuck and doesn’t know what to do. In that case, it’s useful to identify the thinking that is limiting them. A limiting thought is like a box. When you identify the limiting thought, you point out…

Allison EvansSeptember 19, 2020

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