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The Catalyst of Action

September 15, 2024 | Renée Fishman

When you get stuck at a crossroads, there’s one thing that can always catalyze you to step forward and never look back.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: action, crossroads, over analysis, productivity, spinning, stuck, thinking

Mercury Square Saturn: The Risk of Rigid Thinking — and How to Heal It

June 12, 2024 | Renée Fishman

Discipline and structure can be a helpful, to a point. When the rigidity of discipline shapes our thinking, it can invite our inner critic and keep us from doing our best work.

Filed Under: Astrology, Productivity Tagged With: adaptability, astrology, communication, flexibility, habits, inner critic, Mercury square Saturn, productivity, rigid thinking, rigidity, structure, thinking

3 Ways You Deplete Your Energy For a Task Before You Even Start

December 20, 2023 | Renée Fishman

Every task requires a certain amount of bandwidth, or energy, to complete. The more that consumes your bandwidth, the less available to do the task, resulting in procrastination. Here are the 3 main culprits and how to clear the space.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: anxiety, bandwidth, capacity, decisions, drains, energy, fatigue, figuring out, mindset, negotiations, procrastination, productivity, task avoidance, tasks, thinking, worry

Mercury in Gemini Square Saturn in Pisces: Not Everything is Figureoutable

June 15, 2023 | Renée Fishman

As Mercury in Gemini squares Saturn in Pisces, it reveals how we get stuck in sharing our message and reminds us that, for all the wonders of the mind, not everything is figureoutable.

Filed Under: Astrology Tagged With: action, articulation, astrology, coherence, communication, control, creativity, faith, Gemini, Mercury, Mercury square Saturn, message, oneness, Pisces, planning, productivity, Saturn, stuck, thinking, trust

3 Productivity Principles I Learned From CrossFit

May 18, 2023 | Renée Fishman

My best productivity insights often arise in my physical practice. A recent challenge in CrossFit was a catalyst for 3 foundational productivity principles that apply well beyond the gym.

Filed Under: Fitness, Productivity Tagged With: action, case study, cognitive energy, CrossFit, energy, lessons, productivity, thinking, Wendler cycle

Can’t Focus? Try Zoning Out.

February 3, 2023 | Renée Fishman

When I can’t focus, my habitual conditioning is to “try harder” to reign it in. I’ve learned that this doesn’t work. It may seem counterintuitive, but zoning out is often the best way to hone in.

Filed Under: Coaching, Creating, Productivity Tagged With: attention, brain, distraction, focus, habits, haiku, mind, mindfulness, rest, thinking, zone out

The Secret to Getting Out of Your Own Way

December 28, 2022 | Renée Fishman

Sometimes it seems that the most intelligent people often get stuck. Here’s why that happens and how to get out of your own way.

Filed Under: Coaching, Fitness, Productivity Tagged With: action, body, fitness, flying trapeze, life lessons, mind, My Circus Life, overthinking, paralysis, practice, productivity, thinking, trampoline, trust

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