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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Personality Assessments

December 1, 2025 | Renée Fishman

Personality and behavior assessments like DISC or Myers Briggs promise better self-understanding if you use them correctly. Here’s what most people get wrong.

Filed Under: Coaching, Productivity Tagged With: assessments, behavior, coaching, DISC, Myers Briggs, personality, self-assessment, self-awareness, self-examination, self-image, self-improvement, skills, tendencies, traits

How to Get Out of a Tail-Spin

January 13, 2021 | Renée Fishman

Radical advice for extracting yourself from a tail-spin, also known as the looping cycle of self-judgment.

Filed Under: Life, Practice Tagged With: improvement, mindfulness, personal growth, productivity, progress, self-improvement, thoughts

3 Feedback Channels Necessary for Constant and Never-Ending Improvement

June 8, 2018 | Renée Fishman

The core driver of constant and never-ending improvement is a good feedback loop. There are three essential feedback channels. Which are you missing?

Filed Under: Learning, Productivity Tagged With: assessment, CANI, coaching, feedback, improvement, productivity, reflection, self-improvement

How to Do a Self-Assessment Without Falling into the Spiral of Self-Judgment

June 7, 2018 | Renée Fishman

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If you want to improve in any skill, you must conduct regular self-assessments and reviews. But if self-assessments can lead to a spiral of self-judgment. Here’s a 5-step plan to avoid the trap.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: CANI, personal development, productivity, self-improvement, self-judgment

5 Things to Look For When Watching Yourself on Video

June 6, 2018 | Renée Fishman

Watching yourself on video can be a great way to improve your speaking and presentation skills, if you focus on the right things. Use this 5-point checklist for where to focus when you watch yourself on video.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: CANI, checklist, comedy, life skills, presentation skills, productivity, public speaking, self-assessment, self-improvement, stand-up comedy

The Eulogy I Wrote For Myself

December 31, 2017 | Renée Fishman

One of the best exercises we can do when we feel stuck is to write our own eulogy. It might sound morbid, but writing your own eulogy helps you get perspective and see the arc of our lives from a different angle.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: change, eulogy, exercises, goals, life purpose, personal development, personal growth, process, purpose, self-awareness, self-improvement, success, writing, year-end review

Playing Whack-a-Mole with my Inner Critic

May 18, 2016 | Renée Fishman

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  [spacer size=”30″] I promised transparency, and I’m delivering. An inside look at the carnival game of whack-a-mole: me against my inner critic. Are you taking bets?

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: allow, efficiency, inner critic, morning pages, optimize, productivity, self-improvement, standards, surrender, writing

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