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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

Who Would You Be Without Your Thoughts?

November 9, 2021 | Renée Fishman

When you’ve spent your whole life being defined as a thinker, how do you find identity beyond your thoughts?

Filed Under: Coaching Tagged With: beliefs, CBT, identity, meditation, mindfulness, overthinking, personal development, The Work, therapy, thinking, thoughts

Shutting Off An Overactive Mind

October 28, 2021 | Renée Fishman

The mind doesn’t have an off switch, which is why we need to create our own.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: anxiety, energy, mind, productivity, thinking

The Load You Don’t Have to Carry

November 25, 2020 | Renée Fishman

As much as you have on your plate, the most important things that take care of themselves without your needing to think about them. No to-do list required.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: Alan Watts, body, breathing, cognitive load, gratitude, thinking

5 Barriers You Build That Block Your Best Work

August 11, 2020 | Renée Fishman

When it comes to being “productive” — doing our best work — we often build barriers that block us and sabotage our efforts. Awareness of these barriers is the first step to changing them.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: agenda, anger, awareness, behavior change, fear, habits, judgment, mindfulness, personal development, presence, productivity, thinking

7 Problems With Thinking

August 7, 2019 | Renée Fishman

We live in a culture that prizes thinking. But thinking isn’t as useful as we think it is.

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: productivity, thinking

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