Many thanks to all who participated in last month’s Next Chapter online workshops!

Building on those conversations, my colleague Rachel Michaelsen and I are offering a 3 session online group on Wednesdays, beginning November 4.

This group is designed to help you explore what you want in your Next Chapter, what might be getting in your way, and how to overcome these obstacles. We’ll use a combination of:

• guided inquiry

• mindfulness techniques

• neuroscience

• energy psychology

• sound healing

Thanks to everyone who took my short survey last month about how I can make these newsletters, and my work in general, as helpful as possible. If you are new here or didn't get a chance to do it, you can still Take the Survey​

Last month’s feedback reinforced something I've been hearing in other conversations: many of us are thinking about what's next—in our careers or post-career lives, relationships, personal development, or simply how to make our lives as fulfilling as possible.

Consequently, this month I'm offering something new:

Lately I've been thinking about how to make these newsletters, and my work in general, as helpful as possible.

Rather than guess, I thought I'd simply ask.

So I've created a brief, multiple choice, anonymous survey.

At the end, you'll have the option to leave your name if you'd like me to respond personally. Otherwise, your responses will remain anonymous.

It should only take a minute, and I'd greatly appreciate your taking it.

​Take the Survey​

​This month's blog began with a simple question I asked myself one cold early morning before swim practice:

Why is it so much easier to do hard things for work than it is to do hard things for ourselves?

When I was a college student, I decided I wanted to become a professor.

Over the next 30 years, I did everything right: earned a PhD, completed a postdoc, landed the right faculty position, got tenure, was promoted to full professor.

From the outside, things looked great.

Inside, I was increasingly burned out and unhappy.

Convinced that changing my circumstances would solve the problem, I left.

Many smart, successful people already know something needs to change.

But instead of fully confronting it, they stay busy, postpone difficult decisions, and hope clarity will eventually arrive on its own.

Usually it doesn’t.

Because I’ve been seeing this more and more, I’ve decided to begin offering something new:

The Crossroads Intensive

Happy Spring!

Over the past several months, I worked with an elite programmer to create an AI trained on my coaching style.

The result is surprisingly good. A little scary, actually.

Certainly not intended to replace the depth and richness of human-to-human interactions.

But closer than I expected.

Welcome everyone! 

Thanks to all who signed up for or accepted my invitation to this newsletter. It has been great to hear from each of you, and reassuring to know that the “Nothing Is Wrong. So Why Do I Feel Stuck” paradox has resonated for so many.

As promised, here are the resources mentioned in my previous emails.