RHYTHMS OF REST℠
Join hundreds of other business owners, leaders, entrepreneurs, ambitious professionals, solopreneurs, and purpose-driven high achievers—people with big callings and even bigger calendars—who are ready to start living and leading from a place of internal rest rather than busyness, burnout, and overwhelm.
All it takes is twenty seconds of insane courage...
Thursday, May 11, 2023 Twenty seconds of insane courage can change your life. Last week, I shared about 5 Ways to Use Fear to Your Advantage where I touched briefly on courage. What is courage? Courage is action in the face of fear. In the movie, We Bought a Zoo with Matt Damon, he takes his two children to the restaurant where he met his now deceased wife. Walking by on the street, he suddenly spotted her through the window and stopped dead in his tracks. He thought to himself, All I need is...
What if you could improve your rhythms by tomorrow?
Hey [First Name], What if you could improve your rhythms by tomorrow? Dozens of leaders have now taken the RHYTHMS OF REST℠ Assessment. It already does something most tools do not. It tells you which of your four rhythms, Relational, Emotional, Spiritual (faith or a philosophy of life), or Tangible, is actually out of sync. Not a vague feeling. A specific answer. Most people think knowing the diagnosis is the hard part. It is not. Knowing what to do about it tomorrow is. That is what got...
Two breakdowns, twelve years apart, taught me the same lesson
[#10] Why Work-life Balance Fails Every Leader Who Tries It Read on my website / Read time: 4-5 minutes What if the reason nothing has stuck is that you have been fixing the wrong thing? I had a full nervous breakdown at twenty-seven. There I was, face down on the floor in a puddle of tears, in the middle of my kitchen when I was supposed to be driving to a weekend training conference for my leadership role. A second breakdown was waiting for me at thirty-nine, and I almost did not see that...
Season 2 starts August 23
Season 2 Coming This Sunday... The wellness industry is worth more than six trillion dollars today, and burnout among senior leaders has not gone down. In fact, it's increasing. Most people think they are burned out from too much work. They are actually burned out from the wrong rhythms. Season two opens with that question. Three issues in a row starting August 16, one a week instead of my usual every other week. Here is what is coming: August 23: why a decade of self-care, mindfulness apps,...
You already know your three things
Summer Series | A Rhythm Worth Returning To | This was one of my most-read issues from last season. Here it is again. Hi Reader, If you looked at your calendar from last week, would you see your stated priorities, or everyone else's? That is the gut check inside this piece, and it is the one I keep sending readers back to during this break between seasons. It takes a few minutes with a pen and last week's calendar to find out where you actually stand. There is a particular kind of tired that...
The rhythm that held when everything else broke
Summer Series | A Rhythm Worth Returning To | This was one of my most-read issues from last season. Here it is again. Hey there Reader, What happens to your strongest rhythms the day life stops asking permission? Mine got tested this past year when a physical injury knocked out nearly every rhythm I'd built almost overnight. I'm resending it because most leaders don't find out who's actually holding them or the business together until the week they can't do it themselves. A friend told me...
12 to 15 hour days, down to 2 to 4
Hi Reader, Brandon ran Thrive Academics, working 12 to 15-hour days, seven days a week. Within months of locating his broken rhythm, he was down to 2 to 4 hours a day, six days a week. Same results. He didn't get there by deciding to work less. He got there by fixing the one rhythm that was actually off for him. That's not the promise of The RESTed Leader. It's what tends to happen when the diagnosis is right. Apply Now → Once I receive your application, I'll reach out to set up a discovery...
When something's off and you can't name it
Summer Series | A Rhythm Worth Returning To | This was one of my most-read issues from last season. Here it is again. Hey there Reader, I got the work done on the day I had the least to give, and I did it without waiting for the negative emotions to lift first. That's the piece I keep returning to for readers this week: the day I wanted to close the laptop and disappear into Netflix instead of finishing a talk I owed to a room full of people. If you run a business, organization, or a team,...
I promised I'd tell you this week
I'm still out; this one's scheduled to go out while I'm away. I told you last week I'd tell you this week, so here it is. I've been building this for a while. Today's the day I'm opening it up: The RESTed Leader, a year-long group coaching program for business owners and executives who are winning on paper and know something underneath it is off. Twelve months. Four phases. We start with honest diagnosis, not a pitch, not a framework. We find which of your four rhythms—Relational, Emotional,...
I asked a nine-figure founder the wrong question
Summer Series | A Rhythm Worth Returning To | This was one of my most-read issues from the last season. Here it is again. A room full of entrepreneurs watched me cry, and it turned out to be the most useful hour I'd spent on my leadership all year. I'm resending this one because it traces what happens to your decisions and your team the moment you stop performing and start leading from vulnerability. What do I mean by vulnerability? Leading from your scars, not your wounds. Leading from the...
Door are open
Hi Reader, Quick recap, since not everyone reads every email. The RESTed Leader is a year-long group coaching program for business owners and executives. We locate which of your four rhythms is off, Relational, Emotional, Spiritual, or Tangible, then spend twelve months building the practices that restore it. This first group is small and deliberate, not first-come-first-served. Four of those spots are already taken by 1:1 coaching clients. 1:1 clients get the group coaching, too, and you get...
Join hundreds of other business owners, leaders, entrepreneurs, ambitious professionals, solopreneurs, and purpose-driven high achievers—people with big callings and even bigger calendars—who are ready to start living and leading from a place of internal rest rather than busyness, burnout, and overwhelm.