Win At Work, Succeed At Life (with Megan Hyatt Miller)
How to thrive in all areas of your life, not just at work.
Win At Work, Succeed At Life (with Megan Hyatt Miller)
Articles about rhythm
Podcast: Staying Creatively Supercharged
Podcast: Staying Creatively Supercharged
Weekends are not only a great time to rest, but also to recreate (as in "re-create" yourself, and to regain your focus and enthusiasm for your life and work.) By instilling a few simple checkpoints, or rituals, in your weekend, you can spark your creative juices and ensure that you're clear-headed and focused heading into your next week
Podcast: Marking The Moment
Podcast: Marking The Moment
At times, it can feel like life and work is one long string of projects and tasks. You have your eyes fixed forward, and you're thinking about the next thing you're going to do, the next hill you're going to climb, or the next project you're accountable for delivering. However, when your work is just one long series of things to do, you have no rhythm. There's no seasonality. On today's show, I discuss the value of building moments of reflection and celebration into your work.
Podcast: The Value Of Strategic Slacking (Or, Why You Should Be Lazy Sometimes)
Podcast: The Value Of Strategic Slacking (Or, Why You Should Be Lazy Sometimes)
Yes, hustle is important. However, it's possible to hustle so much that you become decreasingly effective. In today's episode, I share the value of strategic slacking and how to use the "breakout principle" to have breakthroughs and generate better ideas for your work and life.
Are You Stealing From Yourself?
Are You Stealing From Yourself?
Don’t rob yourself, and stop trying to will yourself to do better. Instead, recognize that small actions of focus and discipline today is the best way to love your future self. Make investments today so that you can reap a return tomorrow.
AC Podcast: The Dailies
AC Podcast: The Dailies
Do you have a set of practices that keep you steady and on-course? For years I've had a small group of daily activities that have helped me pursue my long-term goals, and today I'll share them with you and tell you how you can incorporate the same ideas into your own life and work.
AC Podcast: Adaptive Rhythms
AC Podcast: Adaptive Rhythms
It's important to adapt your rhythms to the season you are in rather than expecting circumstances to conform to your systems. To perform at your best, you must structure your weekly activity by design, not default.
AC Podcast: Getting Unstuck
AC Podcast: Getting Unstuck
There are three common places where you might get stuck when doing challenging creative work. Here's how to identify each, and some tools for re-gaining traction.
Don’t Allow Your Rituals To Become Ruts
Don’t Allow Your Rituals To Become Ruts
Simply changing your circumstances or your productivity system might inject a measure of energy into your work and give you a boost for a short while, but that increase in output will be short-lived if you aren’t committed to an outcome.
AC Podcast: Turning Downtime Into Brilliance
AC Podcast: Turning Downtime Into Brilliance
This time of year, many of us have a bit of downtime as work slows. Here are a few ways to convert that downtime into an investment in brilliance.
AC Podcast: Quarterly Checkpoints
AC Podcast: Quarterly Checkpoints
Brilliant work isn't just about the moment of creation, it's also about the moments when you choose to step back and plan, strategize, and account for your portfolio of work.
AC Podcast: Seasons
AC Podcast: Seasons
Are you obeying the natural seasons and rhythms, or are you operating like a machine and living in perpetual harvest mode?
Balance Is A Function Of Focus
Balance Is A Function Of Focus
Balance is often a result of mindset, which leads to enhanced focus.
Platforms Give You Pounceability
Platforms Give You Pounceability
How to build platforms today that help you pounce on opportunities tomorrow.
AC Podcast: #90, Unnecessary
AC Podcast: #90, Unnecessary
If we want to be able to "create-on-demand" we need to connect with our creative abilities in times of "unnecessary creating."
AC Podcast: #71, Rhythm
AC Podcast: #71, Rhythm
I've got rhythm...I've got music...I've got...umm...what's the other thing?