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When More Effort Isn’t the Answer

March 1, 2026 | Renée Fishman

When the road is closed, you don’t drive down the road anyway. You take a different road. The same applies when it comes to your mind and body.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: effort, holistic productivity, performance, productivity, results

Is This Belief About Work Sabotaging Your Results?

June 10, 2023 | Renée Fishman

Prevailing cultural beliefs about what it takes to achieve results are deeply embedded in our internal operating systems. But current science provides evidence that by operating according to these beliefs we may be sabotaging our results.

Filed Under: Coaching, Fitness, Productivity Tagged With: beliefs, burnout, central nervous system fatigue, CNS fatigue, coaching, effort, fitness, hard work, nervous system, practice, productivity, sympathetic overload, trauma

Venus in Cancer Trine Neptune in Pisces: Trust What Flows

June 2, 2023 | Renée Fishman

As Venus in Cancer forms a supportive trine to Neptune in Pisces, it invites us to consider that maybe we won’t need to work so hard. What would it take to trust what flows?

Filed Under: Astrology Tagged With: astrology, Cancer, deserving, effort, faith, flow, healing, Neptune, nurturing, oneness, Pisces, self-worth, surrender, trine, trust, Venus, Venus trine Neptune, work, worthiness

How do you know when you’re giving up and when you’re letting go?

May 4, 2023 | Renée Fishman

Heading towards the final of three south node eclipses in Scorpio, letting go is in the air. But how do you know when you’re giving up and when you’re letting go?

Filed Under: Coaching, Life, Navigating Change Tagged With: effort, fitness, giving up, letting go, results, weightlifting

The Secret to Perfect Passover Sponge Cake — and Life Itself

April 4, 2023 | Renée Fishman

Foolproof recipes aren’t always foolproof. The lesson I learned from baking my Bubby’s cherished Passover sponge cake is one that I’m also learning in my creative work, coaching programs, training regimen, and life in general.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: baking, balance, coaching, creating, effort, fitness, grace, lessons, productivity

What To Do When Your Results Don’t Match Your Efforts

March 19, 2023 | Renée Fishman

When your results don’t match your efforts, doubling down on working harder isn’t the best solution. You need a different strategy.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: change, effort, insanity, results

Are You Working Too Hard? Why “Do Less” Is Not the Solution.

July 21, 2022 | Renée Fishman

There’s a difference between “working too hard” and “doing too much.” And also possible that neither of these is your actual problem.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: action, effort, intensity, productivity, regenerative, results, volume, work

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