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What Cookies and Clean-and-Jerks Have in Common

October 15, 2025 | Renée Fishman

On the surface, cookies and clean-and-jerks appear to be two separate worlds. But look closer, and you’ll find they follow a surprisingly similar recipe.

Filed Under: Coaching, Life Tagged With: archetypes, baking, coaching, cooking, CrossFit, discipline, hobbies, human nature, identity, multi-faceted, personal development, personality, qualities, techniques, weightlifting, well-rounded

Cooking and Baking Aren’t as Different as You Think

October 10, 2025 | Renée Fishman

When it comes to kitchen activities, there are often 2 camps: people who like to cook and people who like to bake. But the difference isn’t as pronounced as you think it is.

Filed Under: Creating Tagged With: baking, cooking, creating, techniques

5 Reasons Why I Love to Cook

November 30, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Do you ever think about why you love the activities you enjoy? Cooking and baking are among my favorite hobbies. Here are 5 reasons why I love these activities.

Filed Under: Creating Tagged With: baking, cooking, creating, creative process, creativity, hobbies, mindfulness, personal growth, reflection, self-discovery

A Simple Strategy for Stress-Free Thanksgiving Prep

November 26, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Thanksgiving prep doesn’t have to be a source of overwhelm, even if you have ADHD. Learn a simple strategy for stress-free Thanksgiving dinner that will help you avoid burning out — or burning your meal.

Filed Under: ADHD, Productivity Tagged With: ADHD, cooking, executive function, implementation, overwhelm, planning, procrastination, productivity, solutions, strategies, task management, Thanksgiving, time management, work, work packets

Reframing Cooking: From Chore to Act of Care

October 5, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Cooking for myself more often has been a laborious chore. Here’s how I’m reframing the act of cooking for myself from a mundane chore to a loving act of care.

Filed Under: Creating, Practice Tagged With: calling, care, cooking, mindset, purpose, self-care, self-love, values

Well-Fed and Malnourished

April 25, 2020 | Renée Fishman

What happens to our quality of life when meeting our basic human needs becomes an obstacle to getting things done? We become well-fed and malnourished.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: cooking, elevate, life, mindfulness, productivity, rituals

How to Think Like a Chef

February 4, 2017 | Renée Fishman

How to Think like a chef

The most important things we want to know cannot be found in a Google search. In this era, cookbooks seem hopelessly outdated and inefficient. You can’t search for recipes with the same ease that you can search the web. You can’t link to your shopping list. Even Amazon’s Alexa can’t tell you where the recipe […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: Alexa, cookbooks, cooking, create, creating, effective, efficient, mind models, mindset, organizing, process, process vs outcome, productivity, recipe, systems, technology, think, thinking, writing

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