It’s February, which means that about 80% of our new year's resolutions have failed.

This could be a depressing statistic - hey, you might even be feeling a little down about some “failed” intentions right now - but I actually think resolution “failure” is a total gold mine for anyone really interested in change.

For the next meeting or conversation you have: What would you need to add or take away to make it 10x better?

What check-in would support you in moving toward that change?

Fear is like logic's kryptonite.

You may not recognize it as fear, per se.

It may not look or feel like terror. And objectively you may see no real danger.

But if common sense is absent, fear is present.

We are habit collecting machines.

At a young age we start to develop little patterns that help us feel safe, make sense of the world, be liked and accepted, get what we want, etc..

Not a problem. This is what it is to be human.

If you've been curious about a new way to think about productivity and time... you may have started to bump into other, related beliefs.

This post is for any of you that totally want to geek out on the joys of planning for the new year.

You'll also get a few of my favorite questions for reflection, envisioning, and mapping out the year ahead.

Having tested the upper limits of efficiency as a strategy many times - academically, professionally, and personally - I can promise you that productivity is not the golden ticket.

A lot of people tell me that constant fire drills are a huge problem. The reactivity, the time hijack, the stress...

If it's not fire drills ... then it's another source of drama. Our own or someone else's chaos. A relationship laden with conflict.

It’s estimated we make about 35,000 decisions a day. Laboring over these decisions is impossible so our brain creates shortcuts to help.

Among the shortcuts are a (mostly unconscious) set of priorities, aka values.

Are you craving more feedback?

We are often getting a lot of non-verbal feedback that's hard to decipher and requires us to make assumptions about what people think, feel, need, or want.

Is there anything you are thinking about saying “no” to?

What’s holding you back?

Think of something you do pretty well. Maybe even really well.

Now describe your process for doing it.

It's a little tricky, right?