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What’s on the Other Side of Your Scale?

September 25, 2025 | Renée Fishman

When you’re seeking balance, it helps to see what’s on the other side of your scale. You may not realize what you’re weighing yourself against.

Filed Under: Coaching, Productivity Tagged With: disruption, habits, holidays, measuring up, productivity, rituals, routine, self-care, standards

5 Years of Fitness First: What I’ve Learned

September 1, 2018 | Renée Fishman

Five years ago I made the commitment to put my fitness first every day. No days off. No excuses. Here’s what it’s done for me.

Filed Under: Fitness, Productivity Tagged With: exercise, fitness, fitness first, habits, productivity, rituals, standards

Why You Should Lower Your Standards

March 16, 2018 | Renée Fishman

We readily accept that the pursuit of growth requires us to raise our standards. But what if that’s not true? Here’s the case for why you should consider lowering your standards.

Filed Under: Business, Productivity Tagged With: growth, perfection, personal growth, rituals, service, standards, stuck, unstuck

3 Fears We Have When Setting New Standards

February 23, 2018 | Renée Fishman

The fear of change is discussed often. But change comes when we set new standards. And that comes with its own fears.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: change, emotion, fear, mindfulness, personal growth, self-awareness, standards

The Secret to Sustaining Meaningful Change

February 21, 2018 | Renée Fishman

Lasting change is born in a moment of resolve. In that moment, we create a new standard that drives us forward in our commitment to change.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: change, emotion, resolve, standards

Playing Whack-a-Mole with my Inner Critic

May 18, 2016 | Renée Fishman

whack-a-mole

  [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

The Important Work

December 20, 2015 | Renée Fishman

race against time

[spacer]It was 11:25 am today when I sat down to write Morning Pages, the long-hand free writing exercise I have been doing almost every morning since August. Pen to paper, and suddenly… Wow. Where does the time go? Where does it go? I was out of bed by 6:05 am today. I got dressed for […]

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: accomplishment, achievement, actions, being, doing, goal, inner critic, inner wisdom, morning routines, outcome, presence, purpose, routines, standards, tasks, time, time management, writing

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