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What Seth Godin’s Concept of “The Dip” Gets Wrong

April 28, 2025 | Renée Fishman

Seth Godin famously talks about “The Dip” — the place in the creative process where things feel challenging and we tend to want to quit. Here’s what this concept misses.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: cycles, holistic productivity, perseverence, productivity, progress, seasons, Seth Godin, The Dip

The True Nature of Progress

April 22, 2025 | Renée Fishman

We often think of progress as a linear path where we are either moving forward or backward. The true nature of progress is not that linear or clear. Here’s how it really works.

Filed Under: Fitness, Productivity Tagged With: cycles, fitness, momentum, progress, regression, spirals

Mercury Cazimi Shows You the Missing Puzzle Piece

March 24, 2025 | Renée Fishman

As you retrace your steps to discover what you may have overlooked, there’s a moment of insight that reveals information you need to move forward again.

Filed Under: Astrology Tagged With: astrology, clarity, insight, Mercury cazimi, Mercury retrograde, progress, puzzles, solutions

The Problem With “1 Percent Better Every Day”

February 10, 2025 | Renée Fishman

The idea of improving by 1% a day seems like a great way to make sustainable progress. But a crucial reality of how growth happens is often lost in the idea of “slow and steady gains.

Filed Under: Fitness, Productivity Tagged With: cycles, cyclical, growth, life, linear, nature, progress, rhythms, seasons, sustainability, weightlifting

The Best Weightlifting Advice I’ve Received

February 9, 2025 | Renée Fishman

The belief that progress is linear sets us up to fail — in and out of the gym. This advice helped me remember that the mind doesn’t have the last word on the experience.

Filed Under: CrossFit, Fitness, Productivity Tagged With: advice, body, improvement, mind, progress, stimulus, time, weightlifting

5 Keys to Sustainable Improvement

January 22, 2025 | Renée Fishman

Not seeing results despite showing up consistently? These 5 keys reveal what’s missing between showing up and sustainable progress.

Filed Under: Learning, Productivity Tagged With: coaching, consistency, feedback, implementation, improvement, learning, practice, productivity, progress, skills, training

3 Areas to Review at the Full Moon in Cancer

January 13, 2025 | Renée Fishman

The Full Moon in Cancer is sitting next to Mars at the mid-point of its retrograde, bringing to light 3 areas for us to review.

Filed Under: Astrology Tagged With: action, anger, astrology, Cancer, emotions, full moon, grief, Mars retrograde, progress, results, review

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