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The 3-Part Framework for Consistent Workouts (No Motivation Required)

December 7, 2025 | Renée Fishman

Motivation is a fickle friend. This 3-part framework will help you create a consistent workout routine—even when motivation doesn’t show up.

Filed Under: Coaching, Fitness, Productivity Tagged With: action, consistency, exercise, frameworks, habits, motivation, rituals, routines, rules, workout

Saturn Retrograde: Revisit the Commitments That Don’t Serve Your Future

July 12, 2025 | Renée Fishman

As Saturn stations retrograde in Aries and heads back to Pisces, we’re invited to review the structures and systems that may no longer align with our future plans.

Filed Under: Astrology Tagged With: astrology, boundaries, productivity, retrograde, rules, Saturn, structures, systems

Are Your Boundaries Keeping You From What You Desire?

April 7, 2025 | Renée Fishman

Strong boundaries can help us keep out whatever interferes with what we desire. On the other hand, sometimes its the boundaries that are in the way.

Filed Under: Astrology, Productivity Tagged With: astrology, boundaries, collaboration, connection, desire, productivity, rules, self-sabotage, structure, systems

5 Steps to Working Out When You Don’t Feel Motivated

July 28, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Knowing the benefits of exercise doesn’t help much when you just aren’t feeling energized to workout. Here are 5 steps to working out when you don’t feel motivated.

Filed Under: ADHD, Fitness, Habits, Practice Tagged With: ADHD, dopamine, exercise, fitness, fitness first, habits, motivation, neurodivergent, productivity, rituals, routines, rules, strategies

5 Reasons to Workout — Especially When You Don’t Feel Like It

July 27, 2024 | Renée Fishman

I’ve haven’t missed a daily workout in over a decade, even though I often “don’t feel like it.” Here are 5 reasons to workout every day — especially when you don’t feel like it.

Filed Under: Fitness, Habits Tagged With: coaching, excuses, exercise, fitness, habits, motivation, movement, productivity, reasons, rest, rituals, rules, workout

The Common Lie About Action and Motivation

July 12, 2024 | Renée Fishman

It’s commonly asserted that “action will create motivation.” This can be true, when the action produces sufficient rewards to motivate us to do it again. When it doesn’t, then you need a different strategy for taking action. Here’s what works every time.

Filed Under: Coaching, Productivity Tagged With: action, coaching, discipline, lies, momentum, motivation, productivity, resistance, rituals, routines, rules, willpower

The Other Side of Discipline

June 29, 2024 | Renée Fishman

We often think of discipline in the context of what we need to take action. As Saturn, the planet of discipline, stations retrograde, it pulls focus on the other side of discipline that can often be much harder.

Filed Under: Astrology, Productivity Tagged With: astrology, boundaries, discipline, productivity, restrictions, rules, Saturn, time, work

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