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What Keeps You Busy?

December 23, 2023 | Renée Fishman

Even as nature and the season tells us to slow down, it’s easy to remain busy. Understanding why we resist rest is the first step to taking back what is sacred in life.

Filed Under: Coaching, Practice, Productivity, Spirituality Tagged With: busy, emptiness, fear, listening, productivity, resistance, rest, silence

The Importance of Doing Nothing

July 1, 2023 | Renée Fishman

In our culture that views busy as a virtue signal, doing nothing can feel wasteful trigger guilt or shame. But if you truly want to optimize your life, learning to do nothing might be the most important skill to master.

Filed Under: Life, Productivity Tagged With: busy, doing nothing, mindfulness, practice, presence, productivity, recharge, renewal, rest

How Perfectionism Can Sneak Up On You

March 22, 2023 | Renée Fishman

Even when you know it’s a possibility, perfectionism can sneak up on you through the back doors of indecision, overwhelm, and the pretense of building skills. Here’s a real-life case study of how the cycle can unfold.

Filed Under: Coaching, Creating, Practice, Productivity Tagged With: Aries, busy, coaching, control, creating, creativity, fear, indecision, overwhelm, patterns, perfectionism, productivity, resistance

How to Stop Being So Busy

August 20, 2022 | Renée Fishman

Because I know you’re so busy, I’ve condensed this wisdom to 68 syllables. You have time to read it.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: being, burnout, busy, doing, enough, errands, hustle culture, productivity, rest, Sabbath, stillness, to-do list

Full Moon in Taurus: Simplify Your Life

November 18, 2021 | Renée Fishman

The full moon in Taurus invites you to look at what are you filling your life with and what’s consuming your resources.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: astrology, busy, full moon, mindfulness, productivity, Taurus

The Opposite of Busy

July 13, 2021 | Renée Fishman

Having a lot to do doesn’t make you busy. We can find the opposite of busy by decoding what busy hides.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: busy, language, meaning, mindfulness, productivity

Why Do We Run Errands?

January 30, 2021 | Renée Fishman

Why do we “run errands?” What is the meaning of this expression?

Filed Under: Life, Productivity Tagged With: busy, curiosity, errands, habits, intention, language, meaning, mindfulness, productivity

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