by CJ McClanahan | Aug 27, 2026 | Blog
What if you’re spending time fighting an emotion that won’t pass until it’s been fully felt? <> I like to think of myself as a relatively positive person. I do my best to see the glass as half full and look for the good in most situations. But it’s not easy....
by CJ McClanahan | Aug 20, 2026 | Blog
It might be time to consider a “pattern interrupt”. <> Recently, I had someone tell me that they were in a “rut”. They were working hard but struggling to generate any momentum or make any meaningful progress. Every morning felt like Groundhog Day...
by CJ McClanahan | Aug 13, 2026 | Blog
A small change in wording can change how you view your day. <> This is, as most of you know, a lie. You have the same number of hours in the day as a teacher raising kids who takes courses at night to get a graduate degree, the CEO of a billion-dollar company,...
by CJ McClanahan | Aug 6, 2026 | Blog
The gift of looking back is simple: it reveals most clearly whether our time was spent on the people and things that mattered most. <> I spent this past weekend in Illinois celebrating my mother-in-law’s 80th birthday. We ate lots of homemade food, watched a...
by CJ McClanahan | Jul 30, 2026 | Blog
Overachievers sometimes teach themselves that the real value is in a single giant change that dramatically changes their trajectory in one move. <> I just completed a 100-day course discussing one of my favorite topics – gratitude. I’d love to say that...
