Edward

As this Leap Year month of exploring quantum leaps ends, I want to share the immortal words of Samuel Becket: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. This all sounds truly encouraging and inspiring, but the interesting thing is that Samuel Beckett didn’t really...
Last week, I wrote about the value of a 1% daily improvement. Sometimes, we really do need the reminder that slow and steady progress in the tiniest increments can yield amazingly successful results. This week, I want to explore how we can enhance that progress by finding that sweet spot of STRETCH. ...
This refrain is repeated over a dozen times in the first season of HEROES: Save the Cheerleader,Save the World That character had the superpower of physical invulnerability.  No matter what her injury, she pretty much instantly healed. Back when HEROES was on the air and I was teaching l...
For several years I taught a Groundhog Day Workshop. I revealed nothing beyond its quirky title, but somehow every year it sold out. I started the workshop with a joke. And then I taught a yoga flow that was 20-minutes long, ending with drawing the blinds for Final Rest.  Everyone was very ...
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Our expectations are linear. We crave instantly dramatic improvement. Real life is far curvier, with both plot twists and lots of lulls. This graph from James Clear’s Atomic Habits illustrates this perfectly. The Valley of Disappointment is that period when you’re “doing everything right”... but...
I began 2020 by giving up on all my goals. This is rather ironic because I still work 1-on-1 with a handful of coaching clients on well…achieving their goals. And perhaps even more bizarre because I’ve taught my spin on classic goal-setting strategies to more than 50,000 students via online cours...