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My Top Stories:
Stop Trying to Manage Your Time
Don’t Pick Your Values From a List
How to Break the Sunday Night Dread Cycle
The overlooked distraction that’s killing your productivity
How to stop thinking terrible things about yourself
My year of “sobriety” ended six months ago
What it really takes to become a successful coach
Coaching, Listening, and Other Personal Development Topics:
An Uncharitable Read — What your reaction really says about you
What Should a Good Coaching Session Feel Like?
What Stops Happening When You Start Listening
If you want bigger rewards, go for deep listening
How a Rubber Duck Can Solve (Almost) Anything
The Visible Difference Between Explaining and Thinking Aloud
When Holding Back is the Way Forward
When our questions make them think too hard
The phrase that helped me shut up (when all I wanted to do was scream)
Maybe they were eaten by a bear
Think (on this) before you speak
Glimmers and Getting Unstuck — What I’ve learned about people from 800 hours of coaching
Great Work Doesn’t Wait For Good Weather — What I learned from Matthew Modine about art and suffering
Mindset & Productivity:
Creativity Needs Constraints (and you get to choose them)
Forget Followers, Focus on Your Flywheel
How to go from Overthinking to Expert Thinking
For Better Conversations, Ask Shorter Questions
7 ways to create original work
7 meaningful ways to celebrate success
When you’re not doing the thing you actually want to do
Your ideas are not a precious resource
Forget everything. Create systems you trust.
Get it done with a simple reframe
Managing your mind is the key to everything you want
How to change your thoughts in four stages
It’s OK to go places and not do all the things
Beyond Inbox Zero: A strategic and practical guide to managing email
How to Write a Task (and actually feel like doing it)
Vision, Mission, and Strategy:
Demystifying Vision, Mission, Strategy, and Roadmap
Is your vision statement short-sighted?
From Wordle to Octordle: Why you need to change strategy when you scale
Forget your passion, follow your Desire Path
UX, Design, and Research:
10 reasons why NPS is BS (and what you can do about it)
Your product, among other things
Don’t ask users your burning questions
Use this UX Method in Your Next Challenging Conversation
Bad service design is death by 1000 cuts
When in Doubt, Talk to a Customer
Onboard your Coaching & Consulting Clients Like a UXer
Get out. And stay out. — How Subaru used covert messaging to build trust and demonstrate allyship
Language, Linguistics, Metaphor and more
Dogwhistles: the New Pitch of the Same Old Racist Tune
From Infectious Disease to Contagious Laughter
Mele Kalikimaka is a thing to say…but why?
Pay Attention to the Metaphors
Don’t Tell Me What to do; Please Like Me!
What’s the Difference Between a Creator and a Maker? Everything.
Other stories:
Before You Hit Publish on Your Next Story…
That time I almost lost a hand, and other reflections on near disasters
A learning from every £1000 I’ve earned so far in 2024 (this list is shorter than you might think)
Nothing changes, but our job remains the same — Reflections on two elections, eight years apart
The Wrong Way to Melt Butter — what learning things late in life can teach you about resilience, growth, and doing things your own way
Kim is a life-long overthinker who has overcome many challenges to turn her mental energy into a skill for getting things done and feeling great about it. She’s on a mission to help others do the same. Join the expert thinkers who are gaining clarity and focus with weekly insights in the Hold That Thought newsletter
