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# Sarah K Peck

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- [Do You Have Your Own Personal Board of Advisors?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/08/personal-board-of-advisors/) - I didn't realize I needed a personal board of advisors until things got pretty rough. I was stuck, trying to do everything myself, learn faster and stay up later. Here's how I changed, and why I started my Mastermind.
- [The art of asking: 21 ways to ask for what you want and get it.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/09/the-art-of-asking/) - "If you don’t ask, the answer is already no." What does it take to ask for what you want—and then get it? There seems to be a magical art behind creating a great ask, and we all know stories of people who seem to get exactly what they want whenever they ask. Magicians who bend
- [a love story.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/06/a-love-story/) - I was making a book; he was a book designer. We talked on the phone — me, in San Francisco, him in Brooklyn. We chatted for nearly an hour before I convinced him to let me hire him as a consultant for a project. I paid the standard rate, typical deliverables — and yet I wanted
- [Why Saying "No" Is A Kindness](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/why-saying-no-is-a-kindness/) - I invited two dear friends to join a book club with me. I think their reactions were remarkable. The first said, “No thanks,” directly. “Business books are so oversaturated in my life right now. I’m only reading fiction,” he said. "I can't read another business book right now." Done. Clear. Easy. Being direct is a
- [A 4-Step Guided Framework for Journaling and Gaining Clarity](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/08/4-step-guided-framework-journaling-gaining-clarity/) - Not that long ago, as an eight-month pregnant lady living on stitched-together patches of sleep, finding time to journal was becoming a challenge amongst my pending worries about new motherhood. I decided to try the Clarity Cards as a journaling exercise and loved the results. Here's the four-step process I used to chart out thoughtful ideas, insights, and clear perspectives on being pregnant.
- [Why We’re Lonelier Than Ever (and Why Marriage is Falling Apart), According to Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/09/why-were-lonelier-than-ever-and-why-marriage-is-falling-apart-according-to-kurt-vonnegut/) - How many people do you interact with on a daily basis? Not online, or in your email inbox, but in real life? What about during the week? I had to do a quick tally — (ten coworkers, my husband, a few close friends I see regularly, an occasional dinner or evening out), — maybe twenty to
- [Why Starting A "Blog" Is A Terrible Idea](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/04/why-starting-a-blog-is-a-terrible-idea/) - Getting out there on the internet is kind of like making friends as a five-year old. The internet can be an intimidating place — it’s full of people who seem to write effortlessly and publish often. It’s like they have crowds of people gathering and listening, which makes other people wonder if they’ll ever be able to join
- [Why I Say No to Meeting People for Coffee](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/07/why-i-say-no-to-meeting-people-for-coffee/) - Ever say yes to something and wish you hadn’t? Or get stuck in a situation where you’re not sure how to say no to something? Or better yet, get asked for money and you don’t know how to say no? I have a hard time saying no (an impossible time, sometimes, because I want to
- [Why I am Choosing to Email Slowly](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/01/choosing-email-slowly/) - I am by choice a slow emailer, and it often takes me a week or two to respond to messages. Sometimes longer. I think to myself, You do not really want me to be a fast emailer. Why do you want me to email quickly? Do you want me to sit at my desk, furiously
- [What to Write About When You Don't Know What to Write](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/10/what-to-write/) - What do you do when you don't know what to write about? When you're stuck or worried or wondering what to say next, write anyways. Write about things that no one is talking about. Write about the things that are whispering in your ear, that seem strange, or that seem off, somehow. Write about the things you're not
- [How to Do a Monthly Review](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/12/monthly-review/) - In 2012 I wrote a fairly popular post about my monthly review template. Since then, I've updated and changed my monthly template, and followed it diligently for the last two years. It's what I use to teach in my mastermind groups. For the end of the year and those planning the upcoming year, I thought
- [How To Do An Annual Review: 10 Questions](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/01/annual-review/) - Each year I do a private annual reflection where I look back at the past year, think about what I want for the year ahead, and make a list of dreams and goals. Then, I edit ruthlessly, a skill I've learned slowly over time, because having a list of 50 things does not guarantee that I'll
- [How To Live.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/07/how-to-live/) - Staring out of the window, taking pause between propelling multiple events and cataloguing the life of a company, I stopped to muse and wonder, what would be on my list? And before I knew it, before I could actually think about it, I leaned into it, started scrawling across my notebooks, tears down my cheeks for my grandmother and for everyone who, inevitably, must die; and I thought, this is what I want. This is how I want to live.
- [Work life balance: do you fill up all of your tanks?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/07/work-life-tanks/) - What is work-life balance, anyways? Jenny Blake (author of Life After College) and Lindsey Pollak discuss work-life balance and ask whether or not you are happy in your job, and what that means. During the conversation, my favorite tidbit was the idea that your work may only fill up some of your tank and that it's okay if
- [Last Child in the Woods: Richard Louv on Nature Deficit Disorder](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/07/book-notes-last-child-in-the-woods/) - "Go and play outside." This statement, a way for parents to get their children out of the house, used to be a popular command. Some time in the last few decades, however, it became a relic of the past. In a world where we take escalators to the gym, play video games for leisure, and
- [My Garden—A Serious of Mistakes, Blunders, and Critters](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/07/dont-take-life-too-seriously/) - There’s a particular thrill of coming home, tossing off the work jacket, rolling up my pants, and heading out into a garden. Digging in dirt must be native to our humanity, somehow, because every gardener I know finds weeding, shoveling, planting, watching, and waiting undeniably stimulating. For some, the garden is an extensive oasis of
- [Why Is Failure Such A Bad Thing?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/06/thoughts-on-failure/) - A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about making college and career choices. It was a response to an email I received from a previous student resident of mine, asking my opinion about making college decisions, choosing a major, and building up a life plan. In my response, I talked about failure: "Failures are
- [If (And When) Negativity Thoughts And Fear Pop Up](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/05/thoughts-on-negativity-and-fear/) - Yesterday I felt my negative attitude -- towards my job, my career stumbles, and my unfinished projects -- slipping away. I had several days of negativity cloud me, follow me, and I couldn't shake it. I was scared, I was worried, I was afraid. I felt like nothing was going right. And today, I woke
- ['The Art of Choosing': Too much choice?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/05/book-notes-the-art-of-choosing/) - "We all have dreams, big and small, about how our lives will unfold," Psychologist Sheena Iyengar says, in describing her book The Art of Choosing. "What will I become, we each ask ourselves. What job will I have? What career will I choose?" she narrates in a recent Webinar discussing her popular book. In describing
- [If not you, then who?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/05/jump-start-your-next-project/) - Today was a typical day at the office. There is a challenging task ahead of me, a pile of work on the desk, an application to be put together and several meetings to attend. At home it's the same story: there are several backlogs of articles needing to be written, stuff to do to catch
- [2020 Annual Review](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2021/01/2020-annual-review/) - I'm going to give myself 40 minutes to write as quickly as possible without editing, because if I don't write something, I'm afraid I won't write anything for another year. How do you look back on a year like 2020 without the fear of cracking open a can of tears that will never end? I'm wrecked by the year, but somehow still standing. At the very same time, I found so much steadiness and peace, too. I made big decisions that truly changed my life—and maybe who I am. Here's the 2020 annual review.
- [Books I Read in 2017](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/02/2017-book-list/) - In 2017, one of my goals is to read more books by women and by people of color. As part of my year of devotion and paying more attention to where I spend my mental energy, I'm keeping track of all of the books I read. Here's an ongoing list of books I'm reading this year.
- [How to Get Out of Thanksgiving This Year](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/11/how-to-get-out-of-thanksgiving-this-year/) - The other day I hosted a Zoom Friends-Giving, and I’ll be honest: while I love seeing my friends, having to do yet another event on Zoom makes me unbearably sad. This winter and holiday season is filled with uncertainty, exhaustion, sickness, and frustration, and I’m scared that it’s going to get even harder. Yet everywhere I look, people are packing their bags, trying to figure out a way to make Thanksgiving work this year, and making excuses when we should be making really hard decisions. We need to cancel in-person Thanksgiving. Here's why (and how).
- [Join The Visibility + Storytelling Challenge](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/11/join-the-visibility-storytelling-creativity-challenge/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Blog Content” _builder_version=”4.7.0″ max_width=”700px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.7.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.sarahkpeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1-2.png” title_text=”1″ _builder_version=”4.7.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.0″ _module_preset=”default”]Join me for a seven-day Instagram Creativity Challenge: create seven posts in seven days (using the prompts below), and everyone who does will win prizes.[/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https://mailchi.mp/sarahkpeck/2020creativitychallenge” button_text=”SIGN UP FOR THE CHALLENGE”
- [Now: 2016](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/11/now-2016/) - A sketch of what 2016 looks like, right now.
- [Sort your stress into three piles](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/10/sort-your-stress-into-three-piles/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Blog Content” _builder_version=”4.3.2″ max_width=”700px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]What really causes me to freeze Sometimes I get really productive during stress. REALLY productive. It’s my coping mechanism and I run around like an energizer bunny, getting it all done. I think my inner
- [Taking Care Of Yourself](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/09/taking-care-of-yourself/) - In a tired year, how do you persevere? Here are a few ways to restore and recharge. For my empaths, highly sensitive friends, and people who are feeling the fatigue of this year, a reminder to take care to fill up your own bucket and create boundaries to protect you as a person.
- [Setting Boundaries & Saying No](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/09/setting-boundaries-saying-no/) - Saying no is powerful. My toddler wields the word on a daily basis, and in many ways, I’m in awe of his unabashed claim of the word. Yet saying no can be hard! How do you do it well? Here are my time-tested strategies.
- [August Sabbatical (Does 2020 Include A Sabbatical?)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/08/august-sabbatical-does-2020-include-a-sabbatical/) - Every summer, we take a break as a family and take a summer sabbatical. Typically, we take a few weeks off in August, sometimes up to a month. This year is a little different, of course, because 2020 has been a tidal wave of epic proportions. Still, despite everything going on, we’re going to hang onto the threads of the idea of a sabbatical and take a small step back. Sticking to a semblance of structure and routine can be stress-relieving, especially when things are chaotic.
- [Do This To Make Your Day Better](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/09/do-this-to-make-your-day-better/) - Today I want to share a tool that can help you set yourself up for a successful day. I learned about it from Hugh Jackman. Hugh is a well-known musical theater performer, artist, and singer (who holds the Guinness World Record for “longest career as a live-action Marvel superhero”). He talked about the practice he uses on a recent episode of The Tim Ferriss podcast. Here’s how it works.
- ["Mom, Go That Way!"](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/09/mom-go-that-way/) - When your four-year old helpfully gives you directions as you're driving home.
- [It's Okay To Skip The Marketing Pressure](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/09/its-okay-to-skip-the-marketing-pressure/) - Just a reminder: if you're feeling overwhelmed, mentally rough, or you're in a financially tough spot right now, skip the marketing pressure to buy things on deadlines. More good opportunities will come in good time. You do NOT have to buy anything right now that you don't need.
- [RBG](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/09/rgb/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.6.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.3″ _module_preset=”default” max_width=”700px”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.3″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.sarahkpeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Screen-Shot-2020-09-20-at-3.08.54-PM.png” title_text=”Screen Shot 2020-09-20 at 3.08.54 PM” _builder_version=”4.6.3″ _module_preset=”default” max_width=”100px”][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.3″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Abhaya Libre|900|||||||” header_text_color=”#00a79d” header_font_size=”200px” header_5_text_color=”#00a79d” header_2_line_height_tablet=”” header_2_line_height_phone=”1.2em” header_2_line_height_last_edited=”on|phone”]Ruth Bader Ginsburg, you were an extraordinary example of the kind of person I aspire to be. Your tireless fight for justice, equality, and rights for
- [What You Can Do](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/09/what-you-can-do/) - Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on Friday. A Supreme Court Justice, an advocate for women, for equality, for justice. The best kind. Here’s my two cents: Let the anger burn pure and clean. Let the tears flow out. Let it burn clean and hot in you, but do not let the anger take you down. Do not let the emotions bury you. Find a clarity and focus inside of this.
- [4 Key Phrases & Tools You Can Use To Influence Other People](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/10/4-key-phrases-tools-you-can-use-to-influence-other-people/) - Have you ever wanted to shake someone and change the way that they're thinking, working or operating? From every day team communications, to managing your relationships in your family, to navigating the increasingly intense political landscape out there, effectively communicating who you are and what you want can seem like a pipe dream. We all
- [Less Time Than We Think](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2019/05/we-have-less-time-to-spend-than-we-think/) - I want to write about something I’m noticing—and struggling with. I don’t have an answer for it. It is, perhaps, a set of observations.When I was younger: in my twenties, I didn’t realize how much of my free time I spent doing things—things that I now try to do all inside of my limited work hours. There are small projects I used to indulge in that occupied pockets of time I no longer have in the same way. Today I want to talk through how work (and projects) eat our time, and why we have less time than we think. And how to deal with it.
- [What will teach you more?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/07/what-will-teach-you-more/) - Instead of trying to make the best possible decision based on an estimated guess of an outcome, it's important to remember that we can’t control the outcomes. (If we could, then planning, marketing, and making would be far more boring and predictable.) Instead, I like to ask this question in order to make decisions in the face of uncertainty and unpredictability.
- [Humor, Comedy, and Laughter: How To Tell A Great Joke (And When It's Not Funny)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/01/humor-comedy-and-laughter-how-to-tell-a-great-joke-and-when-its-not-funny/) - I always cringe when someone tells a joke and it's a joke that's at someone else's expense. Making fun of people isn't great comedy. It's cruelty disguised as humor. "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt. But how do you know? What's the difference between edgy in your
- [Today, go to bed early.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/02/go-to-bed-sleep/) - Nearly everyone is short on sleep. Maybe the best way to be a little better, do a little better, think a little better is to go to bed and get some sleep.
- [Boldness is Genius. Do it. Decide.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/03/decide/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Blog Content” _builder_version=”4.3.2″ max_width=”700px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” collapsed=”off”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”90%”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.8″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”] “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless
- [How To Make Better Decisions: 4 Helpful Strategies When You're Stuck](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/07/how-to-make-better-decisions-4-helpful-strategies-when-youre-stuck/) - Decision paralysis is real. Sometimes when I have a huge decision looming ahead of me, it's hard to figure out what to do. Just the other day, I met with my operations planning team, and we reviewed the pile of work that I had on my plate ahead of me. My lead operations person looked at me and said "Sarah, you have to make some tough decisions here. You no longer have enough bandwidth to complete all of this." We had to get real about the time we had, and the projects we could do. The hardest part? Decision making. I've written before about why making decisions is so hard. Today I want to share four strategies you can lean on when you feel stuck and don't know your next move.
- [2,000 Books Is Not Enough](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/07/2000-books-is-not-enough/) - Since starting my social media break last week, I’ve noticed something interesting. I’m hungry for more books. Books feel like a breath of fresh air. Like a complete conversation in a world that’s forgotten what more than a sentence feels like. The comparison between a book and Twitter is divine, and real. I’m back on track to read 50 books this year, but I want to read more. Here's how I'll do it.
- [Take A Break: Social Media Sabbaticals + News Vacations](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/06/take-a-break-social-media-sabbaticals-news-vacations/) - I felt giddy. It turns out, being separated from your phone doesn't feel like problem, it feels like freedom. The tether in my pocket was gone, and I could be right here, with people, full attention and absorption. The music overwhelmed, surrounded me. The innovation sank into me. Each line was a delight, and because it was improv, it was here—and then it wasn't. My laughter felt larger, full-bodied, round. My face was open-mouthed with rapture and love and the full sensation of music, not just in my ears, but a part of me. To be honest, being away from my phone felt like being high.
- [I Feel Like An Awkward Teenager Again](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/06/i-feel-like-an-awkward-teenager-again/) - We’re 90 days into shelter-in-place and social distancing, and I’m beginning to feel the affects on my energy, mental stability, and emotional resilience. To be honest, I feel like a 14-year old teenager again. I notice that I feel way more uncomfortable, insecure, and worried about what other people think about me, at least more than I typically do. Remember age fourteen? Yeah, I never thought I’d be back there again, but my brain and my mood feel eerily like I did when I was a teenager. This is not easy.
- [One Hiring Mistake I See New Entrepreneurs Make All The Time](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/04/one-mistake-see-entrepreneurs-make-time/) - “I’ll start a podcast and interview people I know,” someone says. Twenty episodes in, and they realize that they’ve accidentally interviewed people that look identical—all one gender, all one race. Did they do it on purpose? Of course not. Most people don’t mean to. We don’t set out to say “Hey look, I think I’ll create the most biased podcast out there and only interview people that look like me.” But when we don’t pay attention, this happens over and over again. Here's why it happens, why it's important to notice it, and when to intervene to change it.
- [There's No Easy Way Or "Right Way" To Do This Work—There Is Only Doing The Work](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/06/theres-no-easy-way-or-right-way-to-do-this-work-there-is-only-doing-the-work/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Blog Content” _builder_version=”4.3.2″ max_width=”700px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” collapsed=”off”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”90%”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.7″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]01. “There is no blueprint for how to get it right.” — Tunde Oyeneyin There is so much work that needs to be done. Now, today, tomorrow, and every day for the rest
- [If A Kid Breaks Their Arm, What Do You Do?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/06/if-a-kid-breaks-their-arm-what-do-you-do/) - A quick primer on understanding key issues when talking about race, racism, and anti-racism in America and beyond.
- [Anti-Racism Resources: Books, Conversations and People Leading The Charge](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/05/anti-racism-resources-books-conversations-and-people-leading-the-charge/) - Whenever I read an article or see a headline that says, "The surprising racist history of..." I think, wait, this shouldn't be surprising because the United States and much of the colonial and Western worlds were built on the backbone of slavery, oppression, and racism. There is racism in everything. Including ourselves. This should not be a surprise. There is racism everywhere, in everything.
- [Four Conversations: Ruts, Decisions, Self-Discipline, and Love](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/05/four-conversations-ruts-decisions-self-discipline-and-love/) - If you're finding it hard to remember what day it is, what time it is, or how to even get started—you're not alone. Finding a new sense of normal is critical for me right now. Here are four short conversations to help you get out of that zoned-out, spaced-out, fatigued place of mental exhaustion.
- [Who Is Imagining The Future?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/05/who-is-imagining-the-future-four-things-sunday-may-17-2020/) - One of the questions we’re all asking about—begging for, really—is what the future might look like. Where are we going, and what does the next year look like? I find myself searching for writers who have thought about this—people who have imagined it, who are dreaming about it, or have studied it. It turns out, there are definitely a few people who have written things like this, from winding forays into five-year futures, to epidemiologists and pandemic researchers thinking through so many of the layered consequences of viral diseases. Here are the people talking about what the future looks like, and a few ways to begin thinking about what’s next.
- [Four Things: Best Podcasts For Right Now — Sunday, April 19th](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/04/four-things-best-podcasts-for-right-now-sunday-april-19th/) - This edition of the Four Things newsletter is devoted to podcasts—specifically, podcasts that are relevant right now and providing excellent storytelling and listening for what's going on, and how to deal.
- [Let's Talk 13: If More Discipline Isn't Working](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/05/lets-talk-13-if-more-discipline-isnt-working/) - Does self-discipline work? Sometimes yes, but lately for me, and especially during the pandemic, it's not cutting it. Hustle culture, burnout, and heaping more "discipline" on top of me like an overactive bootcamp coach isn't getting me to do any of the things I want to do. Here's what's working for me instead.
- [Let's Talk 12: Try It And See](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/05/lets-talk-12-try-it-and-see/) - If you're ever stuck or waffling in a decision, here's a phrase and a short-hand that I love that helps remind me to take action: "Try it and see." It's something I use when I don't know whether or not to do something. (It doesn't work in ALL instances, but it certainly helps when I'm stuck.)
- [Permission To Feel Your Feelings](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/04/permission-to-feel-your-feelings/) - This time we're living in right now is exhausting, and I'm baffled by all of the extra zeal towards getting more done, and being extra productive, and "making the most" of our quarantine time. I don't think this is the time to make the most of it. Sure, if you have the energy and the drive to make things, do it. If you're struggling and scrambling to put things together and pay bills and keep your jobs, I completely understand. But that's not what I'm hearing from people. People feel vulnerable, they're struggling to focus, they're zombied out on their phones, they're completely overwhelmed by childcare and jobs.
- [Four Things: Productivity Tech Tools To Help My Digital Life](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/05/four-things-productivity-tech-tools-to-help-my-digital-life/) - There are a few digital tools that help save my digital sanity on a regular basis. Sometimes little apps can be so powerful and so dang useful. These tools, in particular, are all about organization, productivity, and focus. Here are four of my favorites (plus a few bonus ones at the end)!
- [Four (Weird) Things To Buy In A Pandemic — Four Things, May 10, 2020](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/05/four-weird-things-to-buy-in-a-pandemic-four-things-may-10-2020/) - When things get uncertain, we crave stability and certainty—whether that's something we can do, something we can buy, or something we can depend on. Shopping is a way to pretend to have certainty. I'm really curious: What have you bought recently that's made your life at home a little easier?
- [Adjusting To New Normals — Four Things: April 26, 2020](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/04/adjusting-to-new-normals-four-things-april-26-2020/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Blog Content” _builder_version=”4.3.2″ max_width=”700px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” collapsed=”off”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”90%”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]Everything is different right now, and being home with children while attempting to work and write is bonkers. We’ll just start there. Within that, my husband and I are slowly beginning to develop
- [Let's Talk 11: Getting Out Of A Rut](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/04/lets-talk-11/) - How do you get out of a rut? When you're stuck at home, with children or without your brain (or BOTH), how do you get back into a groove and find your way? This episode is for anyone that feels anxious, stressed out, overwhelmed, or unable to complete a to-do list. I'm taking the view that it's time to learn and adapt to our situation, and figure out the best strategies for us as individuals and how we get through this.
- [Let's Talk 10: Saying Good Morning](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/04/lets-talk-10-saying-good-morning/) - Lately the strangest thing has been happening: I’m finding myself drawn towards social media, and wanting to connect more. So every morning, I’ve been sharing a small snippet of my morning routine on my Facebook page, and it’s turned into my virtual coffee shop. Listen in for how it all works, and why it’s helping me so much right now.
- [Don't Forget To Sleep (If You Can)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/03/dont-forget-to-sleep/) - These last few weeks have been long and tumultuous. As we move forward collectively we will go through some phases in our journey. In the beginning, there’s a dawning realization, awareness, and information gathering that happens. We begin resourcing and preparing and responding—however we each respond.
- [How Not To Lose Your Mind](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/03/how-not-to-lose-your-mind/) - The next few days and weeks are going to challenge us, a lot. Having everything suddenly shift and having our lives disrupted this much is a huge deal. Here are seven ways to stay sane.
- [Let's Talk 01: Hey Friends](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/03/01-hey-friends-lets-talk/) - I have a microphone, a computer, and an urge to talk to all of you. If you hear small children in the background, it's because... there are small children in the background. But first, let me introduce you to a new podcast that I'm working on.
- [Let's Talk 02: Quarantined in NYC](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/03/lets-talk-02-quarantined-in-nyc/) - As Seth Godin would say, "This might not work." I can make zero promises about whether this podcast will last, if it will work, and whether or not I'll wake my children up while trying to record. I'm currently making this from a corner of my apartment while in quarantine with two children and a husband in New York City. Here's a look at what life looks like right now.
- [Let's Talk 07: A Small Evening Ritual](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/03/lets-talk-07-a-small-evening-ritual/) - Whether it’s for you, your family, or your company, create small rituals that help you get through your new normal. Pick a few things to look forward to, even if they are small—just make sure they are within your control and not subject to wild external forces.
- [Let's Talk 06: Feelings](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/03/lets-talk-06-feelings/) - During times of stress, everyone responds differently. Some of us laugh, some of us go into denial, some of us get agitated, some of us panic, some of us get to work. If you’re feeling a bit all over the place, I want to talk about how stress affects each of us differently and why these reactions are coming up.
- [Let's Talk 04: Staying Sane In The Coming Weeks](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/03/lets-talk-04-staying-sane/) - The coming few weeks are going to be tough. Potentially tougher than what we can imagine. Here's a short list of things I journaled to myself — reminders for how to stay sane in the coming weeks and months.
- [Let's Talk 05: Catch Your Breath](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/03/lets-talk-05-catch-your-breath/) - Don’t forget to exhale through all of this. If you’re tired, scared, stressed, overworked, or feeling all the feelings, this episode is for every one of us. It’s a short method to help catch your breath, tap into your body, and exhale away some of the tension.
- [Let's Talk 03: Saturday, March 14th — Coronavirus Preparations](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/03/lets-talk-03-saturday-march-14th-coronavirus-preparations/) - On Wednesday this past week, my husband and I started feeling sick. The boys were both snotty, and we’d been watching the news—way too much, but you know. It’s hard to peel your eyes away. On Thursday we decided to keep everyone home, out of the abundance of caution. Here's everything we are doing to prepare for coronavirus.
- [You Don't Have To Be Okay](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/04/you-dont-have-to-be-okay/) - It’s okay not to have it figured out. It’s okay to not be productive. You’re allowed — I mean, even expected — to not be okay right now. It's okay to be feeling whatever it is that you are feeling—grief, confusion, rage, fog, happiness, joy. Your life is your own, and it's yours to feel.
- [Let's Talk 08: A Few More Tiny Habits](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/04/lets-talk-08-a-few-more-tiny-habits/) - Every morning lately, I’ve been posting a selfie to my Facebook page and my Instagram page. Right now it feels like going to the coffee shop—I get to pop in, say good morning to people all around the world, check-in with my neighbors and parents and friends, and then start the day. In any other moment of my life, I would not have said that going on social media first thing would help me be more productive, but right now is not a normal time.
- [Four Things: Sunday, April 12](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/04/four-things-sunday-april-12/) - On Sundays I'll share with you four things to enjoy—things of beauty, things of note, or things I've stumbled across that have given me delight. This is the Four Things Sunday newsletter.
- [Let's Talk 09: Perfume, Coffee, Candle, Lipstick](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/04/lets-talk-09-perfume-coffee-candle-lipstick/) - Making sense of days that make no sense requires new patterns, habits, and routines. For me, trying to muddle through the cacophony of work and children and non-stop days at home is very, very challenging to my brain. So, to help, I’ve been building small rituals into the day to start to cue myself that yes, work is happening now, and yes, it’s a new day. These are some of my favorites.
- [The Top 10 Books You Need To Read From 2019](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/03/the-top-10-books-you-need-to-read-from-2019/) - Last year I read 43 books, the majority of them by women. Overall, this year was a year filled with GOOD BOOKS. Here are my ten favorites from my reading stack of 2019, from parenting books to business books to memoirs.
- [My 2020 B-School Bonus—An All-Year Accountability Program & Monthly Mastermind So You Can Take Consistent Action On Your Dreams](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/02/my-2020-b-school-bonus-an-all-year-accountability-program-monthly-mastermind-so-you-can-take-consistent-action-on-your-dreams/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.0.6″ max_width=”800px” module_alignment=”center”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”100%” module_alignment=”center” collapsed=”off”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.sarahkpeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/notebook-empty-design-paper-419635.jpeg” url=”http://share.marieforleobschool.com/LpDfR” _builder_version=”4.3.2″][/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.3.2″ header_4_font=”Lato||||||||” header_5_font=”Lato|700||on|||||” header_5_font_size=”15px” header_5_line_height=”2em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” width=”80%” width_tablet=”” width_phone=”100%” width_last_edited=”on|phone” max_width=”700px” module_alignment=”center” custom_padding=”20px||20px||false|false”]The 2020 cycle of B-School, Marie Forleo’s bestselling online program to teach you the fundamentals of profit, marketing, and clarity in your
- [Today's the Last Day to Sign Up for B-School](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/02/last-day-b-school/) - Every year, B-School opens once for enrollment, and once it's closed—it's closed up. It won't be back until 2020. Today's the last day to sign up for B-School. Enrollment closes tonight at 4PM Pacific / 7PM Eastern.
- [Strategies for Selling and Marketing More Effectively](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2019/02/strategies-for-selling-and-marketing/) - What does having a successful online business look like to you? One of the hardest things to get right in business, in my opinion, is your marketing. It’s something that’s often left to the wayside, done as an afterthought, or purchased by brands and folks that think, “Okay, now we’ll just add some Marketing to
- [How To Know If B-School Is Right For You](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/02/how-to-know-if-b-school-is-right-for-you/) - I know it can feel like the whole internet is abuzz about B-School right now, and sometimes we do things that aren't actually a good fit for our needs right now. As always, I want to encourage you to make the best choice for you and what YOU need right now. Don't feel pressure to do B-School if it's not the right time or fit for you. It took me four years to sign up—only you can know when it's the right time. Here's what I'd think through if I were on the fence.
- [It's Never Going To Be The Right Time](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/02/its-never-going-to-be-the-right-time/) - So yesterday was a DAY. You might know these days. I hadn't showered in a couple of days, and, well, I'll just say that I definitely needed a shower. I'd woken up at 4:55am to finish editing a podcast that was overdue, and at 6:16am the boys woke up. I grabbed coffee, shuffled them to breakfast and toys, and then... A strange gurgling sound started emanating from the bathroom. Ew, um—what? Our bathtub started filling up like a spooky gross horror movie. Not with clean water, either. Dark, dank, muddy water. Well, this wouldn't bode well.
- [Toilet Email (And Why It Matters For Your Marketing)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/02/toilet-email-marketing/) - Why do people email when they are on the toilet, and does it matter for your marketing? It does, and here's why it's so important.
- [What Is B-School, Who Is Marie Forleo, And Is The Program Right For Me?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/02/what-is-b-school-who-is-marie-forleo-is-b-school-program-right-for-me/) - Marie Forleo's B-School program is back, and I'm thrilled to be offering a bonus again this year. But if you've never heard of B-School or you're just joining the party, then read this first. I'll give you a big overview of what B-School is, the core modules, the bonuses, who it's right for, and when you should take it.
- [The 5 Mistakes Even Smart Entrepreneurs Make](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/02/mistakes-smart-entrepreneurs-make/) - This week only (February 21 and 23, 2019), join a free class all about business, marketing, and being smarter as an entrepreneur. In the class, you'll learn how to 45X your marketing efforts using a tool everyone thought was “so over," the website links that stop buyers dead in their tracks, and why more traffic isn’t always what you need — and what you should do instead.
- [Why It Took Me So Long to Sign Up for B-School (Don't Make My Mistakes)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/02/why-sign-up-for-b-school-mistakes/) - It took me a really long time to sign up for B-School. At first, it made sense: I was super broke, had $100k in student loan debt, and I was trying to learn everything I could while doing it on the cheap. But after a while, I ended up making a bunch of mistakes that cost me a TON. Here are the mistakes I made, and why I would do it differently if I were to go back and do it again.
- [Want to Make Progress on Your Dreams This Year?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020/01/make-progress-dreams-this-year/) - I'm gathering a group of people together this year for ten months to help you make progress and stay accountable to your big dream or goal in 2020. If you need an accountability buddy and regular check-ins to keep you on track, check out this group.
- [The Resistance Is The Work You Need To Do](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2019/09/resistance-work/) - There's so much focus on flow and ease—finding the things that bring us joy, that give us delight and satisfaction. I'll admit, I love it when writing flows. When the ideas come, when I have so much I want to say and it comes pouring out of me. But there are also days when I
- [Summer Hiatus](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2019/08/summer-hiatus/) - Every summer, we take a break as a family—both from work and from business. I also do a social media sabbatical for at least two weeks (sometimes more) based on a series of experiments I conducted and wrote about for Harvard Business Review.
- [Best of books 2011: For every entrepreneur and intra-praneur](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/01/best-books-2011/) - "If you stop learning, you are obsolete." Entrepreneurs and intra-preneurs learn like crazy. (If you don't know what an intra-preneur is, check out this list of business terms). An intra-preneur is changing the game in his or her current company by breaking the rules, building new programs, and becoming indispensible within their company. An entrepreneur
- [Eat Salad for Breakfast](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/10/eat-salad-for-breakfast/) - Fresh Vegetables! A friend of mine recently told me she eats salad for breakfast. I was puzzled - eating cereal, oatmeal, or eggs for breakfast is pretty ingrained in my being. Then I thought it over and tried it. Turns out, I love this. Sometimes I get to the end of the day and I debate
- [Cultivate an attitude of gratitude](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/lessons-from-less-8-cultivate-an-attitude-of-gratitude/) - Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude. Okay, so I'm relatively new to the blogging world. Forgive me, but I didn't know who Leo Babauta was until about 4 months ago, and I didn't read blogs regularly. Previously, I was too focused on being a graduate student and trying not to be miserable while studying/doing/thinking about landscape architecture 100% of the time. In
- [Steph Nelson: Planning, Monterey Bay, and Work-Life-Location Balance](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/steph-nelson-work-life-location/) - Steph Nelson, a City + Regional Planning graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design, works with the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments in Monterey, CA. Located an hour and a half south of San Francisco, Steph talks about accepting a fabulous job in Transportation and Regional Planning while balancing work with her
- [Self Reliance and Other Essays: 30 day writing challenge](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/05/self-reliance-and-other-essays-30-day-writing-challenge/) - "To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance and Other Essays. Writing begins when it begins. You put your pen to your paper, you hem, you haw; you write. We delay,
- [32 things you don't know about me - or, Hello.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/07/32-things/) - Hello .... Hi. Oh Hey There. I was sitting down to a beer with a friend I met on twitter (yes, Mom, I met someone on TWITTER), and he interrupted me after a bit and said, “You know, you’re way cooler in person.” I’m not really sure what that meant, but upon some reflection: I think (before you
- [World Domination Summit: Day 2 and Beyond](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/07/wds2012-02/) - Sometimes I get caught up in the whirlwind of the weeks that it’s hard for me to find time to sit down and write my posts – it’s been about a week and a half since the epic second rendition of WDS concluded, and I went straight back to work, followed by a weekend spent
- [You Will Disappoint People](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/02/you-will-disappoint-people/) - In your life, you'll disappoint people. You may be wildly successful, outrageously funny, brilliant and do extraordinary things. You also will likely disappoint someone, at some time. And the more that you attempt to do, be, and discover, the higher probability that you will not please everyone. It's okay to disappoint a couple of people.
- [There's more to life than this: Chris Guillebeau's 'The Art of Non-Conformity'](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/10/theres-more-to-life-than-this-chris-guillebeaus-the-art-of-non-conformity/) - The Art of NonConformity: By Chris Guillebeau Just got my copy of The Art of NonConformity in the mail and I must confess, I spent an entire lunchbreak (and early afternoon) out in the park, skipping work, to read Chris Guillebeau's fantastic book and life manifesto. Absolutely, stunningly inspiring. Anything I write here is just
- [Enough with the Stuff! My First Foray into Minimalism](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/10/enough-stuff/) - Happy Halloween! And Happy Birthday (Photo by Bill Tatham) Sometimes I feel a bit like this pumpkin -- squeezed full of food, overburdened with stuff, maxed out with things to do. (Maybe I've had a bit too much Halloween candy, too!). It's been quite a busy fall - and this week is no exception. I'm
- [Towards legacies: what do you want your future to be?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/11/towards-legacies-what-do-you-want-your-future-to-be/) - This post was part of a blog series on Brazen Careerist being sponsored by Entrustet in 2010. They asked Brazen members to answer the following question: What do you want your legacy to be? Here’s my response… Image from AFM What is a legacy? Every day in college, I got in the pool. We swam laps
- [Neither here nor there: A note on process](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/neither-here-nor-there-a-note-on-process/) - This weekend I went running through Griffith Park in Los Angeles. It took a while to climb up to the base of the park, and then I wandered off the main road to a set of amazing trails that took me to the height of the hills overlooking the Los Angeles basin. Once at the
- [The onset of paralysis, burnout, some wisdom from dad + a digital hiatus](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/the-onset-of-paralysis-burnout-some-wisdom-from-dad-a-digital-hiatus/) - Let me start this way. I LOVE having things to do. I really do. I thrive on to-do lists, activities, and fun adventures. I usually hate being bored at work, and at home, I invite people over for dinner parties like it's my job. It's so much fun. That said, I'm experiencing something entirely new
- [#WDS Saturday Recap (Day 2)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/06/wds-saturday-recap-day-2/) - I'm a big fan of country music. I'm sitting in a coffee bar, thinking and dreaming about this past weekend, and reminiscing and relishing in the beauty of it all. "I don't have to be me until Monday" came on my headphones and I laughed, because at first glance, this is what the weekend was:
- [What an UH-OH looks like.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/10/uh-oh/) - I was planning on running a quick errand. In the elevator of the AirBNB apartment I was renting, I made a to-do list: Pack. Ship. Mail. Dinner. Write. Check travel itinerary. Get ready to head back to the States tomorrow, early. I grabbed my keys and my bag and scurried outside to make it to the
- [Find Your Creative Flow, A Chat With Barrett Brooks & Living For Monday, and My Favorite Fall Books](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/09/creative-flow-living-for-monday-and-books-for-fall/) - A big welcome to all the new faces and readers who have found me through the Thought Catalog essays, Scoutie Girl, and my recent interview with Barrett Brooks on the Living for Monday Show! It's been a busy week behind the scenes over here, and consequently there are a LOT of new faces to this website. Feel
- [Are You Minimalist Enough? An Experiment in Giving Up Clothes For a Year](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/11/minimalist-enough/) - As a person with an apartment that has hundreds of books, I sometimes feel like my efforts to de-clutter and reduce the number of things that surround me aren’t enough. In my efforts to reduce clutter and consider minimalist--or simplicity--as a strategy, I began to doubt my efforts in being minimalist. And the thought begins to creep in: I’m not minimalist enough. What follows is the result of a year-long experiment in giving up buying clothes.
- [2010 in review: travel](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/2010-in-review-travel/) - #Reverb10 offers a month of reflection and prompts for each day. I'm doing a handful of them on this blog, plus a few of my own for a 2010 in review series. December 22 is about Travel. How did you travel in 2010? How and/or where would you like to travel next year? Travel. What
- [Book Notes: Traffic](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/book-notes-traffic/) - Traffic is an age-old problem: ever since humans have figured out ways to move beyond the facility of our two feet, we have encountered problems of congestion, traffic, movement, and organization. Advances in technology and new forms of mobility (horses and carts and bicycles and autos and cars, to buses and trains and airplanes) all
- [More than Just Dreaming: Actually DO-ing. (And a short video: hello!)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/04/more-than-just-dreaming-actually-do-ing-and-a-short-video/) - Dreams are things that we either unabashedly work towards -- or we keep them close to our hearts, unwilling to chase them because they might not come true. God, I'm terrified of publishing this. I have a big confession to make. I love the show Survivor. I would go on the show in a heartbeat.
- [Yes, You Can. Swimming Across the San Francisco Bay.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/06/yes/) - San Francisco. Monday, June 20, 2011. Walking in San Francisco. Wow. When you come down off of a high like this, the world - the normal world, with people floating in and out and waking up, walking around - looks strange. Normal is strange. Regular looks weird. Nothing is how it should be, but I
- [Is The Hard Work Worth It?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/11/hard-work/) - There comes a few moments each year, when I stand in front of my desk and I watch pieces start to float together. Articles I've written six months earlier come to light online and in print; books I've designed years ago get transfered from manuscript to first draft to pushing iterations; invisible lines of website
- [Rain Puddles, Big Splashes, and the Land Beneath Your Feet.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/03/rain-landscape/) - Photograph of the rain reflections by Courtney Warren. Will it stop raining? It’s raining in San Francisco and I’m so happy that it finally is. The rain has been following me across the country a bit--Dallas, Austin, here in San Francisco again--and while it makes a few of the plane exchanges a bit difficult, I
- [30 Ways to Get Your First 1,000 Subscribers: Free List Building Guide](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/03/free-list-building-guide-first-1000-subscribers/) - 30 proven strategies to grow your list, build your email marketing prowess, and make your work seen, heard, and loved.
- [Help Me Bootstrap a New Podcast!](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/06/help-bootstrap-new-podcast/) - Transformation isn’t easy, in fact, it’s often painful, but it’s one of the most beautiful parts of being a human. Help us bootstrap the Startup Pregnant podcast to tell these stories!
- [Systems Need to Change: The Future of Work, College, Education — and the Future of YOU?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/03/systems-change/) - What is the future of work? How about the future of education? Across the news, education reform and the way we learn seem to be undergoing a slow overhaul--or it still desperately needs one. The future of work is constantly shifting as we untangle ourselves from the traces of our industrial past and figure out
- [Why I Write](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/09/why-i-write/) - Someone asked me recently why I write, and I thought to myself, it's because I must write. My brain knows that I have to do it. I can't possibly imagine myself not writing. The question was silly, so it seemed. But then I woke up in the middle of the night, thinking to myself: I write
- [Four Ways To Tap Into Your Own Creativity And Inspiration](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/11/sources-of-inspiration/) - Creativity, innovation, and brilliance: why do some people have it and other people don’t? Creativity and innovation are the source of new business ideas, excellence in entrepreneurship, and talented individual success stories. It would be nice to assume that creative people are “just talented,” and fall back on the assumption that “you either have it
- [Motivation: surprising truths about what motivates us](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/motivation-surprising-truths-about-what-motivates-us/) - What motivates us? Why do we do what we do? Do you do what you do for money, fame, notoriety, or general good will? (As a blogger and a landscape architect, I can tell you that neither of the things I do are for the big buckaroos. So why do I do what I do? And what
- [Saving for retirement is sexy.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/saving-for-retirement-is-sexy/) - Do you speak retirement? Most people don't. Personally, I like to sit around a campfire and talk about compound interest and exchange rates, but I sometimes get distracted by the chocolatey-smores and marshmallows - Oh wait. Perhaps that's just me? Retirement is something you probably don't want to think about or talk about. It's kind
- [Yes + No. More + Less. Thirty days of less. (and not surprisingly, thirty days of more)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/yes-no-more-less-thirty-days-of-less-and-not-surprisingly-thirty-days-of-more/) - Do you say yes to things that don't matter? Do you say no to things that do matter? Why? I've been playing around with the ideas of "yes" and "no" a lot lately. I've been saying yes a lot to things that don't help me make progress on my goals, and I've had a terrible
- [We All Need White Space](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/02/white-space/) - White space, in graphic design, is the space on the page that isn't. It's the space on the page that's blank, that echos the thoughts and points of the content by giving it space. White space is that delicious break, that rest, the recapitulation of ideas by doing nothing at all. White space gives the
- [What holds you back?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/03/what-holds-you-back/) - Question: What holds people back from accomplishing their dreams? From fulfilling their potential? A guest post of mine was featured on Ongoing Conversation recently. OngoingConvo, created and curated by David Damron, features a new question every week and 2-4 writers reacting to the question and generating discussion via the comments. To see the entire conversation, I
- [Generosity.  World Give Day: More About We, Less About I](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/05/2910/) - What do you give back to the world? Each day, each step, each moment on the planet is a gift. What do you give back? World Give Day is tomorrow, May 4. As part of the effort and outreach, Laura Kimball and Jolkona asked several bloggers to expand on the following statement: “Small scale donors are the
- [#WDS: Sunday Recap (Day 3)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/06/wds-sunday-recap-day-3/) - It's late Tuesday night, and I'm lying on the floor of my apartment, two new friends (from #WDS) crashing in my place - having just met them a few days ago. Yes, it's like that. We traveled to Portland and then, less than 48 hours later, I've opened my doors in San Francisco to some
- [Back to Then: What would you tell yourself (if you could)?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/07/18-years/) - Every so often, I like to go back and reflect on what's happened and what's changed. The best way to learn and grow is to know where you came from. Every virtual yardstick we have - the successes, goals, failures, challenges - helps us by teaching us how we did - if we're willing to
- [Eating Better: How I Try to Stay Healthy, No Matter How Busy](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/09/how-to-eat-better-how-i-stay-healthy-while-being-super-busy/) - I got an interesting email from a friend currently going through an arduous graduate program. Almost as an afterthought, he said, I have a question for you: How do you eat? How do you stay healthy, especially when you're only cooking for just yourself? How do you make time to eat well when you are
- [Why Integrity Matters So Much](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/02/integrity/) - I was asked to write about Integrity as part of Molly Mahar's “Blog Crawl” on self-love this February. Today’s post is part of Stratejoy’s The ABC’s of Self Love Blog Crawl + Treasure Hunt. Molly’s series is part of her bigger program called The Fierce Love Course. I had a chance to meet with Molly in
- [Book Giveaway: Too Many Books, and Too Many Projects! (Plus I Need Your Help)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/05/book-giveaway/) - Books are flying off the shelves and landing on my desk, and for the first time in a long time, I can't read or write fast enough. I also have WAY too many projects on my plate, and I can't do them all. So, I think I need your help. I have no idea where
- [The Conference that Doesn’t Feel Like a Conference: Touch Down in Nebraska For Big Omaha, 2012](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/05/big-omaha-2012/) - **A quick update for everyone who voted on the last post: First, an overwhelming thank you of gratitude, because I don’t know what I did to deserve all of you, but you’re absolutely the greatest. I put together a survey in the question about my future projects and more than a hundred of you responded to my
- [Life Doesn't Always Go According to Plan... Hospitals, Applications, Hackathons, and Other Adventures.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/06/unexpected/) - Image from Murray Mitchell. OVERWHELMED. That’s the word of the week. First: I am grateful. For you. ALL of you. You’re stunning. More updates on the Start Something Project project in just a bit. As you know, it—LIFE—sometimes doesn’t go exactly as planned. Scratch that – it never goes according to plan. Yet here was the plan
- [Reinvent Business Hackathon: Fast Company, Frog Design + 200 Hackers in San Francisco](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/06/reinvent-business-hackathon-fast-company-frog-design-200-hackers-in-san-francisco/) - “Reinvent Business” Hackathon - Winning Concepts from frog on Vimeo. After a whirlwind week, this past weekend I was part of the inaugural frog design, LRN and Fast Company‘s weekend summit “Reinvent Business Hackathon.” It was a 2-day intense creative event with 180 people from around the world to break into small teams to change business and re-humanize the structures
- [100 Gratitudes, One Hundred Dollars, and the $29,000 Birthday Swim](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/07/birthday-swim/) - We live in a world of abundance, and this is the year that I finally became worth nothing. Out of all the things that I worked through and built this year, the entire time I still had a bed to sleep in, a family close by, a job that I went to everyday and plenty of food to eat. A pool to swim in, places to run, a city to call home. When I returned from WDS this year, I was humbled, quiet, confused, and a bit sad: despite all of the engagement, inspiration, and learning, I still wonder: Am I doing things worthwhile? I’m not sure yet. Is there more to do? Absolutely. Have I reached all of my capabilities? I don’t think so. Can I do more? Yes. There’s so much more I want to do. Join me as I try to raise $29,000 for my 29th birthday -- and if I do it, I promise to be a little crazy. More crazy, I mean.
- [Let's Make It Rain. And You're Invited.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/09/rain/) - How far would you go for clean water? (All images in this post from Charity:Water's 2010 Haiti trip.) Updates to the Birthday Swim Campaign! I've got some pretty good news. So exciting, I can barely stand it. Six weeks ago we set out to raise $29,000 for my 29th birthday Charity: Water birthday fundraiser. Did I
- [Do it.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/09/do-it/) - If I've seemed a bit quiet in these parts lately, it's because I've been doing a lot of writing in other parts of the interwebs, and I'd love to share them with you. Check out a few of these features: Homework, for Julien's website In Over Your Head: On Breathing. "My relationship with breathing has always
- [Feasts, Powder Kegs, New York, Filming, Indianapolis + Lots of Link Love!](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/10/feast-nyc-powder/) - Rooftop Yoga On The Standard, NYC. What another whirlwind of weeks! I touched down in San Francisco a couple days ago, just in time to see that the entire city had turned orange (Halloween and the Giants in the playoffs will turn this city somewhat crazy), and as soon as the wheels landed, it seems
- [Indianapolis: PowderKeg 2012](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/10/indianapolis-powderkeg-2012/) - I spent the last weekend in Indianapolis, Indiana, as part of the inaugural 2012 Powder Keg Conference put on by The Verge celebrating StartUps, Developers, and Innovation in the central hub of Indiana. While I'd been to Indiana before, I'd never made it to Indianapolis, and it was beautiful to see another Midwestern city in
- [Reading List 2012: On Family, Parenting, Leaping, Daring, and the Future](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/11/reading-weekend-edition/) - As you know, I love reading. I love everything about books, learning, curling up with coffee and a new book, discovering ideas and curating conversations. Here's a list of what I've been learning from this past week--as well as the books I've recently read or am nearly done with from the last month or two.
- [Building a Space and a Voice on the Internet: Is It Time For You to Join In?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/05/building-a-space-and-a-voice-on-the-internet-is-it-time-for-you-to-join-in/) - Where are you telling your stories? This past Monday we kicked off the first Writer’s Workshop with a group of 22 participants from more than a dozen states and countries around the world. I’m so impressed and inspired by the talent and hard work coming from the group already—and we’re just in week one! Writing
- [July excitement, New York, the School of Visual Arts, and WDS!](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/06/july-excitement-new-york-school-of-visual-arts-and-wds/) - What a busy month! I'm so excited about, well, everything it seems lately. This past June I traveled to New York for two weeks with the School of Visual Arts in their Design Writing Intensive program as a two week break from my full-time job in Communications to get better at writing and storytelling; the
- [Getting Things Done: How I Take Notes, My Nerdy Highlighter System](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/09/organization-highlighter-system/) - Lots of folks have emailed me to ask me how I get everything done and what systems I have in place to keep myself motivated, on track, and organized. I love watching how other people work and learning what they do to stay organized--so I thought I'd share a behind-the-scenes peek into some of my systems.
- [Ready for Change? Here Are Beautiful Ways to Start the New Year](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/01/beautiful-change/) - I have a confession to make. I signed up for three courses this January, and I've got so many notebooks and pens and pencils out that I'm doing geeky little dances around my apartment, although my apartment keeps getting messier and messier. Magazines, scissors, glue, crafts? Check. Class on financial awareness and making money as a
- [An Invitation Into the Darkness: Notes On Finding Your Own Inner Guru](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/12/an-invitation-into-the-darkness/) - The darkness of winter: time to turn inwards. The northern hemisphere is swaddled in darkness, as it is each winter. Today is the longest night of the year; the shortest day. The sun will rise late and quickly dash off, leaving us behind to contemplate the cold, wind, and dreariness of night. Despite the prominence
- [Do something useful](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/08/do-something-useful/) - In Time's 10 questions interview with Elon Musk (co-founder of electric car maker Tesla), Musk talks about his experience building the Tesla electric car company, his belief that most people can become entrepreneurs, and his strategies for successful start-up companies. In a word, Musk says that companies will be successful when they are doing something
- [A facebook addict’s confession](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/09/a-facebook-addicts-confession/) - I have a confession to make: I think I'm addicted to Facebook. And the internet. And I have no idea what to do about it.
- [The freshman heartbeat (and hello, Fall!)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/09/the-freshman-heartbeat-and-hello-fall/) - On the open road (Photo by Sarah Peck) Something about the rustle of the wind changes when the summertime ends. The heat is still there, but the undertones of the wind are brisk, cool, and cleaner somehow. I feel like the sky is a bit brighter, even as the end of the day shifts towards
- [Social media for business: presentation](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/11/social-media-for-business-presentation/) - I'm working on a bit of research for my current company on social media as a business tool. Clearly, social media tools have been widely adopted by many businesses - but for some reason, within the design world, especially in architecture and landscape architecture, social media strategies have not been as readily adopted. Here's a
- [W. O. R. K. (It's not a dirty word!): Ten good things about work](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/11/10-good-things-about-work/) - Well, it's back to the grind - and unfortunately, I won't be able to post as often as I'd like over the next few weeks as I wrap up some exciting research and writing projects elsewhere (more on that to come, soon!). Here's a post I wrote about the grind of work from late last
- [Listen to yourself, above all else.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/lessons-from-less-1-listen-to-yourself-above-all-else/) - You must listen to yourself, above all else. Listen to the words in your heart. Your true self is screaming to get out. Your essential self, as described so eloquently by Martha Beck, will stamp it's feet and come out in ways that aren't apparent to you yet. If you don't listen to it now,
- [It starts with Yes.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/it-starts-with-yes/) - It starts with Yes. When was the last time you said Yes to something you really wanted? I'm guessing the last time you thought of something fun, fantastic --or even somewhat unreasonable -- you quickly swatted the thought down and countered with a NO-based thought. I can't do that ... I don't have time. I
- [It Starts With Small](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/small/) - It starts with small. Sometimes the smallest, most insignificant changes are really the most important. Not all good things start with a bang. This reduction of things in my life - saying yes and saying no - is a bit of a bang. Although I'm trying to keep it reigned in, a bit. Small changes,
- [2010 in review: photo](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/2010-in-review-photo/) - #Reverb10 offers a month of reflection and prompts for each day. I'm slowly catching up, and enjoying the prompts, however delayed. December 25 is a photo: This was in Philadelphia, at Penn's Landing by the Delaware River, with two of my closest friends, Matt and Alexandra. Photograph by Matt Sklar. *** *** *** Philadelphia.
- [2010 in review: ordinary joy](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/2010-in-review-ordinary-joy/) - #Reverb10 offers a month of reflection and prompts for each day. I’m slowly catching up, and enjoying the prompts, however delayed. December 27 is ordinary joy. *** *** *** Yesterday I ran to the bus stop, almost missing the bus, to jump on the 38L and transverse San Francisco, east to west. My apartment is
- [2010 in review: achieve](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/2010-in-review-achieve/) - #Reverb10 offers a month of reflection and prompts for each day. December 28 is achieve: Tara Sophia, the author, prompts us to look beyond the goals and the lists that we create - and instead, imagine the feeling that each of these achievements creates. When we reach a certain goal, we have attained more than
- [Difficulty reveals who you really are.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/lessons-from-less-7-difficulty-reveals-who-you-really-are/) - Difficulty reveals who you really are. When it's hard, you learn who you really are. Difficulty reveals character. Difficulty shows you what you are passionate about - and lights a fire under your skin to go after what you really want. We learn from the tough times, from the trenches, from the down-trodden, life-is-the-pits moments.
- [Finish Something](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/lessons-from-less-11-finish-something/) - Finish something. We spend so much energy starting, thinking, dreaming and creating. You've gone through and un-finished projects that don't matter. You've cleared your closets and space of things, slowly, and you've made a little more time for yourself by deliberately doing less. Today, finish something. Don't try to finish everything. Finish one thing. Just
- [Leap Boldly. [Post-It]](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/06/leap-boldly-post-it/) - Inspired by #Trust30's Post-It prompt by Jenny Blake, I've put together a series of a dozen (or so) challenges and questions that I ask myself and post up in my office and my home workspace. This was inspired by Jonathan Fields and the still-buzzing #WDS crew. What are your questions? What are your challenges?
- [Who You Really Are [Post-It]](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/06/who-you-really-are-post-it/) - This one was inspired by Tyler of Advanced Riskology. Who are you? Who are you when no one is watching? Inspired by #Trust30's Post-It prompt by Jenny Blake, I've put together a series of a dozen or so challenges and questions that I ask myself and post up in my office and my home workspace. To see the
- [It's All About Attitude [Post-It]](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/07/attitude/) - Inspired by #Trust30's Post-It prompt by Jenny Blake, I've put together a series of a dozen or so challenges and questions that I ask myself and post up in my office and my home workspace. To see the rest in the series, check out the Post-It category.
- [So What [Post-It]](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/07/so-what-post-it/) - Inspired by #Trust30's Post-It prompt by Jenny Blake, I've put together a series of a dozen or so challenges and questions that I ask myself and post up in my office and my home workspace. To see the rest in the series, check out the Post-It category.
- [The Art of Saying No. [Post-It]](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/07/the-art-of-saying-no-post-it/) - Inspired by #Trust30's Post-It prompt by Jenny Blake, I've put together a series of a dozen or so challenges and questions that I ask myself and post up in my office and my home workspace. To see the rest in the series, check out the Post-It category.
- [What's In Your Way? [Post-It]](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/07/whats-in-your-way-post-it/) - Inspired by #Trust30's Post-It prompt by Jenny Blake, I've put together a series of a dozen or so challenges and questions that I ask myself and post up in my office and my home workspace. To see the rest in the series, check out the Post-It category.
- [Business Is Not A Dirty Word: And 15 Other Important Definitions](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/08/business-definitions/) - The words "business," "sales," and "marketing" sometimes get a bad reputation. All of a sudden it seems off-putting if you look for sales or you talk about strategy. Sometimes I just say the word "strategy" and people's eyes glaze over - like it's boring. The common response goes something like this: Blogging should be about your
- [What's the Urgency? [Post-It]](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/08/whats-the-urgency-post-it/) - What's the urgency in what you are doing? Who's putting pressure on you to get everything done right now? What can wait? Too often, we chase dreams and deadlines and ideas in a rush-rush-rush world, bombarded by things with seeming urgency. Some things can wait. In fact, most things can wait - something I'm learning
- [A Rant on Ridiculous Words and Phrases](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/02/rant-words/) - Perhaps it was my foray into Twitter and Google+ this past year, but I've found myself simultaneously overjoyed by the opportunities and connections, and also, now, a bit weary of repetition. Some of the same themes, ideas, and mantras crept up time and again, each time undermining their efficacy and usefulness. In particular, given the
- [April Miscellaneous: Updates, Link Love and Thoughts on Burning the Midnight Oil](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/04/april-miscellaneous/) - Updates: I'm bursting at the seems with about a hundred posts I want to write, and they are all currently buried in my notebooks, brain, and on half-finished word documents on my laptop. I just took a peek at the unpublished drafts in my queue (110) and the number of essays I've hit "publish" on (173)
- [The Job Problem: Stop Worrying and Start Doing (You Only Need to do 2 Things)!](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/05/job-problem/) - Quick update: Thanks to everyone who voted in the last survey! The results are in, and it looks like the books I'll be reviewing are Chris Guillebeau's $100 StartUp and Jonah Lehrer's Imagine; I'm also primed to focus on my next new project--the Do Something book (part of the Start Something Project, coming soon). If you're
- [Chasing Freedom: Independence, Adventure, and The Year-Long Secret Race to #WDS](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/07/chasing-freedom-wds/) - INDEPENDENCE. WHAT IS IT? A year ago, I went to one of my first conferences I’ve ever attended—aptly titled, "The World Domination Summit." (Try telling your parents and your colleagues about this one. Bemused looks and strange faces ensued.) I went anyways. As a slightly more introverted than extroverted person who struggles a bit with social
- [Prizes, prizes, and more prizes! Donate to the water adventure and WIN BIG. Oh, and help the world.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/08/prizes/) - Magic doesn’t happen without a whole lotta hustle. With the start of a dream, you put your thoughts to the world, you whisper a promise, you believe that something is possible—and then you get out there and you chase it. On July 12, I opened my big mouth and made a promise. We made a
- [Gratitude, Holiday Cheer + Post-Thanksgiving Epic Giveaways.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/11/gratitude-giveaway-2012/) - Congratulations to Melissa for winning a copy of Shane Mac's book, "Stop With The BS" and to Claire and Anne for winning spots to Molly Mahar’s Holiday Council (which starts Monday, November 26th-- join me there! I'll be on the interviews and on as many calls as possible). I've been hearing wonderful reviews of the book and so
- [What Do You Do When The Thing You Want Doesn't Exist?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/11/what-do-you-do-when-the-thing-you-want-doesnt-exist/) - I saw this go by a few days ago and I had to share it: credit and thanks to Michael Ellsberg for posting it originally. A few updates to the December Giveaway post: all of the slots for Saturday are filled up (they filled up within a couple of hours!) but there are a couple
- [2012: Year In Review](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/01/2012-year-end-review/) - Pelican on the San Francisco Bay, November 2012 (see below for the photo-behind-the-photo). This is my typical annual review, a process by which I review this blog, my life (although not all of it is shared here), the lessons I've learned, and some of the growth that's occurred through projects and processes I have (or
- [John Stilgoe on the Magic Outdoors: Get Outside!](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/01/outside-magic/) - Why is walking and wandering through the physical world so important? While the architecture of the digital world is equally fascinating--we're all increasingly inhabiting spaces that don't have correlating spatial and locational constraints, and the architectural design of online communities, internet spaces, and experiences is an art in an of itself,--there is a beauty and
- [William James on Consciousness and Movement](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/02/william-james-consciousness-and-movement/) - William James, from the University of Amsterdam In the 1961 text titled Psychology: The Briefer Course, William James, (an eminent theorist and one of the founders of modern psychology), writes a series of essays on habits, consciousness, the self, attention, association, memory, sense of time, and several more topics. The book, a compilation of James'
- [Combating Loneliness + A Brand New Talk at ALIVE in Berlin](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/04/alive-in-berlin/) - How do you deal with loneliness? The problem with my first job wasn’t the job itself—it was how few people I knew at the company. In most structures throughout my life—family, school, college, sports—we bonded as teammates and community members because of shared goals, ideas, and dreams. Yet at work, I barely had friends. Perhaps
- [Screw the fairytales](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/08/screw-the-fairytales/) - In my twenties, I was on track to fulfill all the obligations of being a woman in this society: engaged to be married, great job, graduate degree education, wanted to have kids. Society was happy for me, and that ring on my finger was the icing on the cake. The problem? I didn't like the job, and I was wildly uncertain about the prospect of getting married, even though I'd said yes to the proposal. Then, over the span of a year, I lost my rib (it was taken out of my body through emergency surgery), I lost my fiancé, and I found myself in completely new territory. What happens after the fairy-tale ending? In most books, my engagement would have been the happily-ever-after. Here, I had a new lease on life, and finally, slowly, started listening to myself and what I wanted, instead.
- [Ask Me Anything (Yes, Anything)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2019/07/ask-me-anything/) - Want my brain on your project or business? Here's how to access it on my monthly, private, patreon-only podcast.
- [The 25/5 Rule For Finding Focus](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2019/07/warren-buffett-25-5-rule-deciding-finding-focus/) - Paralysis. Indecision. Procrastination. I'm not alone. The 25/5 strategy helps every single time, and it's so important I'm writing about it.
- [Slow Down, Don't Stop, Keep Going](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2019/07/slow-down-dont-stop-keep-going/) - Don't quit, not yet. This is my current mantra—to myself. I thought you might want to hear it as well. I feel behind on nearly everything these days. My life blurred out of focus with the arrival of our second son, and only in May or June of this year, once he hit eight months
- [Round 3: a world domination summit, an army-family-team, love, and other lessons.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/07/round-3-a-world-domination-summit-an-army-family-team-love-and-other-lessons/) - An Army of Remarkable Souls... Every year, the army grows a little bigger. This year, Chris invited 3,000 of his closest friends to join in the growing march to take over the world. With a blog that reaches millions, two best-selling books and a conference that sells out in minutes, I wonder how soon this
- [Jumping is Terrifying: Behind the Scenes of Making the Leap](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/08/jumping-is-terrifying-or-behind-the-scenes-of-the-last-few-months-life-mind-work-change-here-now-hello-breathe/) - I wake up in a panic, nerves sending a fear signal up and down my trembling arms. Adrenaline pours into my veins, shooting up my skin like a shock to my system. My brain races, full of questions and doubts and fears. I can't sleep again, even though it's dark. The light from the streetlamp
- [How Do You Find Your Right People? Hint: It's All About Energy](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/09/right-people-energy/) - Ever been at a party and felt like you were completely exhausted? That you couldn’t stand to keep your eyes open for another minute, even though it was supposed to be an amazing party? Likewise, have you ever stayed up almost all night, focused and driven, surrounded by brilliant people and creative ideas? Energy comes in limited quantities. Who you surround yourself with--and what type of energy they feed you--is crucial to doing your best work.
- [What would you bring with you into the woods? Reflection questions on your own fire, the art of creation, the necessity of destruction, and your intrinsic value.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/10/creation-destruction-woods/) - Central Park by Vivienne Gucwa on NY Through The Lens. Reflection, rejuvenation, and three questions. This weekend, I left the city to join one hundred other entrepreneurs, creatives, and innovators to shake off some digital dust and retreat in the Poconos Mountains of Eastern Pennsylvania. In addition to the typical packing instructions -- sleeping bag,
- [Step Out Of Your Comfort Zone: Why We Should Strive to Die Empty by Todd Henry](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/10/step-out-of-your-comfort-zone/) - The cold water shocked my arms and sent a panic message from my limbs to my brain--and my heart. I was set to make a big swim--a 1.5 mile arc from San Francisco's Alcatraz Island to Ghirardelli Square, the famed Alcatraz swim. The thing is, I said I would do it naked as part of
- [Bali, bliss, and a big old birthday: taking a life, work, and digital retreat.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/10/bali-bliss-birthday/) - "Do great work, and love--that is the meaning of life." Bali, bliss, and a big old birthday. It all started with a single post in February, 2010. I had just gotten an extra job as a writer paying $10 per post, and I snapped it up. It was my side project. My writing was terrible.
- [Are you making these email mistakes? Here's how to fix them.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/11/email-mistakes-youre-probably-making-and-four-ways-to-fix-them/) - A few weeks ago I met up with a good friend of mine over wine and dinner and we got to talking about email--the number one form of communication we all use, and the fact that so many of us could do it a lot better. If you use email or any other digital medium,
- [The Celebration Jar: An Alternative to Meaningless Gift-Giving](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/12/celebration-jar-holiday-gift-guide/) - I splurged and went shopping recently. Like, real shopping--whatever "real" means. (Isn't the act of spending a day inside of a privately-owned mall slightly strange?) I did things I hadn’t done in years. Wandered through big-box stores, large crowds, jingly Santa Clauses, screaming children, and wafting Cinnabon flavorings fuming into the crowded halls to make
- [Do You Have A Life Philosophy?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/11/a-life-philosophy/) - Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! May your hearts, minds, families and homes be filled with gratitude and blessings. As part of this season's focus on gratitude and thanks, I'm doing a huge number of THANKSGIVING GIVEAWAYS! I'm giving away lots of good things throughout the entire month of November (and now I'm up until Christmas--I have more
- [Making Money as a Creative Entrepreneur: How I Make Money, Where I Spend My Time, and What I've Learned From Launching My Own Ventures](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/01/money/) - When I was four weeks old, my mother and father took our then-family-of-four from Germany to Idaho Falls, little baby and tiny toddler in tow. We were standing around in the living room, as my mother recalls (to be be fair, I can't recall and I certainly wasn’t standing—more likely drooling), talking about the insane
- [The Write Life's bundle: massive sale for writers!](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/03/write-life-bundle/) - Writing is powerful stuff. I teach several writing courses as a tool to gain insight into your inner wisdom, access your inner soul, and pen your own stories. If you've been itching to write, yesterday I shared several of my favorite resources in the March edition of my behind-the-scenes newsletter. Today, I'm excited to share a
- [Want to Stand Out?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/04/standout/) - In a recent conversation with Daniel Epstein (founder of the Unreasonable Institute and more recently Unreasonable Media), we started talking about what people do to stand out. And we agreed–it’s not that complicated: Ask for what you want. Follow up on that ask. And then follow through. In the following example, all of my numbers are made up. But let’s play with a
- [How to Practice Saying No](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/05/no/) - I walked into the restaurant and something didn't feel right. The prices were too high, the waiter a little stuffy and dismissive, the air a little cold. I can't tell you exactly what it was, but I do know that my body was decidedly uncomfortable. While none of the particulars was enough to make a fuss—should
- [An Epic Resource, Event, and Spiritual Program Guide program guide. [July 2014]](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/07/resource-guide/) - Many of us want similar things in life. Freedom. Love. Money. Safety. Security. Happiness. Depending on where you are in Maslow's theoretical hierarchy of needs, your next immediate problem might either be finding a meal to satiate your hunger—or it might be reaching out to new meetup groups to make more friends. It might be heading out on
- [Learn Yoga In 5 Minutes A Day](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/09/want-to-learn-yoga-in-5-minutes-a-day/) - I was sitting at dinner with my friends Amber and Farhad recently, and the conversation turned to yoga, drawing, and art. I mentioned an idea I had, to make small "yoga grams" on my Instagram with a posture or two that people could learn and try in just a few minutes a day. If you know
- [Have You Changed Your Narrative Lately?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/10/have-you-changed-your-narrative-lately/) - As I wander through cities, one of the things I look for is evidence of fresh construction. Cities are living, breathing, pulsating organisms, and a great indicator of change is the number of cranes you can see dotting the skyline. In San Francisco, new construction emerges when the lack of residential units becomes absurd; in
- [A 30-day Writing Challenge, A Brand New Class, and a Book Giveaway.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/01/a-30-day-writing-challenge-a-brand-new-class-and-a-book-giveaway/) - Want to be a better writer? What does it take to become a better writer? I've been thinking a lot about resolutions and goals lately, and every time I talk to someone, I hear the same dream: I want to write more. So these past few weeks, I've been making a few new things to
- [Writers Resources for 2015: Make a Living as a Writer With These Sweet Courses](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/03/writers-resources-for-2015-make-a-living-as-a-writer-with-these-sweet-courses/) - Want to make a living as a writer? Maybe you’re simply looking to improve your craft. Maybe you want to self-publish a book, or you want to learn more about publishing. Perhaps you've got a side-hustle, and you want to turn it into a full-time business. Maybe you're working on a book proposal but you're
- [An Inside Look at the Mastermind: Free Info Session Thursday, February 23](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/02/free-mastermind-mentoring-info-session/) - Curious about the program and want to know more about what's in a Mastermind? Join me this Thursday, February 23rd at 1:00PM Eastern for a Free Info Session and an inside look at what the program includes, how it works, and what to expect.
- [Inside My Business Philosophies: What's Worth Your Time, Attention, and Money?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/02/whats-worth-time-attention-money/) - I’m not in the business of selling quick fixes. In fact, a lot of the work I do is slow and boring. I can whip up content marketing like the best of them, but I’m most interested in what behavior change approaches actually work, and what really helps us in our business and personal lives.
- [Book Notes: How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/05/book-notes-parenting-talk-little-kids/) - This book is a great management book in disguise as a parenting book: how to talk to little kids is a great advice tool for how to talk to anyone.
- [Start Sooner: How One Conference Kickstarted My Blog, My Business, and My Freedom](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/05/start-sooner-one-conference-kickstarted-blog-business-freedom/) - More than any course, metric, skill, or tactic, the people you surround yourself will make the biggest difference in your life and career. Conferences can be transformative experiences. When you bring people together in one place, for one weekend, to celebrate, to learn, and to connect, you leave changed.
- [A Look Inside My Writing Habits](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/07/look-inside-writing-habits/) - Are you optimizing your writing habits? We have a limited amount of attention, bandwidth, and energy. There are only so many “hacks” we can take before it’s going to become ever more important to cull the flow of information and set up systems that let us optimize for our strengths and internal design. My writing and
- [My Fall Mastermind is Open for Applications](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/08/fall-mastermind-open-applications/) - My Mastermind & Mentoring program will return this Fall. You must apply by August 18th to be considered for the early decision deadline. The latest possible day to apply is September 5th if you'd like to be in the Fall cohort. The program is a little more than 3 months long and requires a dedication to expanding yourself, your business, and your mind.
- [In Search of Mental Focus and Clarity](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/09/mental-focus-clarity/) - Those of you that have followed my posts recently know I'm experimenting with my relationships to social media, email, and the internet. I love tech AND I also want to stay smart about my habits, impulsivity, and addictions. Because make no mistake: tech is an addiction, for sure. How do we achieve mental focus in the increasing onslaught of information? Get this: the average person checks email 74 times per day and spends 28% of their time on email. If we're not questioning this, we should be concerned.
- [Why I Tracked Every Book I Read in 2017](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/01/book-list-2017-why-i-tracked-every-book-i-read/) - This year, I decided to track all of the books I read to see what was making it's way into my mind. As part of my year of devotion and paying more attention to where I spend my mental energy, I kept a running list of all of the books I read. I also tracked the
- [10 reasons you don't want to miss this class. (It's the LAST DAY to sign up).](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/01/10-reasons/) - Heads up: today is the LAST DAY to register for the Writing Workshop. It is also the LAST DAY to save $200 by registering for both the Writing Workshop AND the Content Strategy course. Join us now. Still need a reason? Here are a few: 10 reasons to sign up for the Winter Writer's Workshop: 1: You're
- [Are you living? Because sometimes, I can forget.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/06/are-you-living-because-sometimes-i-can-forget/) - "It's not that we're afraid of death—we’re only afraid of death because we want to make sure we've lived enough." —Chris Guillebeau, @AliveinBerlin Remains of the Berlin Wall (left), and Templehofer Feld, an abandoned airport (photographs by Alex). Three and a half years ago, I booked a plane ticket to Portland, Oregon. I went by myself—all alone,
- [Stop With The Bull Shit: Calling BS On "Corporate," Life, Relationships, Careers — Shane Mac](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/11/stop-with-the-bs-shane-mac/) - I met Shane Mac two years ago via Twitter, when serendipitously we both remarked on the strange olfactory sensations of shopping malls (we commented wryly about the stench pouring from Abercrombie and Fitch stores)--and followed it up with a beer (maybe several beers, in fact) in San Francisco. He was one of my first twitter-to-real-life friends, and
- [Unnecessary Kindness](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/01/unnecessary-kindness/) - "Kindness is the act of caring for the people around you; of knowing how to make both our lives, and the lives of others, more meaningful." Non-obligation thank you notes. Words of encouragement. Big, fat, friendly hugs. Admiring someone's hard work and dedication. Making yourself available to others. Turning the timer off. Telling your boss
- [Thank You](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/01/thankyou/) - I want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you for listening, For inspiring me, for delighting me, For telling me your stories. Thank you for caring, For being, for questioning, for pushing Me, for pushing YOU, For all of the beautiful work you do, Even when it's messy, and you wonder, curious, Sad, lonely,
- [Why I Started A Podcast](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/10/why-i-started-a-podcast/) - Almost two years ago, the idea for Startup Pregnant came to me. But when the idea first arrived, it was to be a book of my own experience. A story of what it was like to work in the tech startup scene in Manhattan while navigating my pregnancy. Over time, however, the idea morphed from a book (still in progress) to grow in shape and size. I started interviewing women and hearing incredible stories. And I knew these interviews need to be conversations that people could listen to. So I ended up starting a podcast. Here's the backstory, and a sneak peek into where we're headed.
- [How, What, Why](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2019/03/how-what-why/) - Are you rushing, slipping, catching your breath, urgent, last-minute, adrenaline fueled? Or are you patient, calm, planning ahead, ready, exhaling, easy? The difference between the two matters.
- [Mess-in-Progress](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2019/03/mess-in-progress/) - Friends, I'm in the process of updating my website, and it's been a long time coming. This is not a sexy project. When people talk about being an entrepreneur, most of the time they talk about the new, shiny objects. The latest launches. The biggest revenues. The six-figure months. Not the boring, painstaking projects that require consistency, repetition, dedication. Or the cumbersome legacy projects like, "What do I do with all of these blog posts now?" and "What happens when I stop teaching courses, do I clean up my digital entrails that are all over the web?"
- [Away for a while](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/09/away-for-a-while/) - We're preparing to add a second kiddo to our household! This coming Fall will be filled with a lot of newborn madness, alongside the extra bonus of having a very active toddler lighting up our lives. I've written on this blog for nearly eight years, but it's time for me to take a break. I'll be on hiatus from blogging regularly here for the next six months, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to stop blogging here entirely. If you're on my email list, you'll still get my subscriber-only monthly newsletter. If you want to read more about what I'm planning for the year ahead and how I made this decision, here's a blog post all about it. It's time to edit life, as always, and harness my energy towards my next projects.
- [July Book List](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/08/july-book-list/) - July was a busy reading month. I was focused on recording and prepping interviews for my upcoming maternity leave, and with all the extra interviews scheduled, I had quite a list of books I needed to read to prepare! Here's the complete list of books I read over the last month: one of them, Overwhelmed, is one of the best books I've read so far all year.
- [Six questions for better conversations](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/08/ask-better-questions/) - The default American question "What do you do?" doesn't suffice. Here are six of my favorite questions to ask people instead, and why they work. Asking people better questions is a great way into a more interesting conversation.
- [How you move through the day](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/08/how-you-do-it-is-just-as-important/) - There are many ways to go about a day. It's not always as important what gets done as it is *how* I am showing up, and *who I'm being* in the process of all the doing and non-doing that I'm engaged in. In my mastermind circles, we call this "ways of being." We work through three major phases and processes in our work together, which I describe in this post.
- [Join me! Live podcast show in New York City — Thursday, August 9th](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/07/join-me-live-podcast-show-in-new-york-city-thursday-august-9th/) - Friends! I'm joining the host, best-selling author, and founder of Unmistakeable Media for an intimate evening podcast recording of the Unmistakeable Creative Show. We'll be taping live in New York City on Thursday, August 9th, after work. Join us. Tickets are sold in advance and are first-come, first-served, with an intimate venue and a limited audience size. Yes, I'll be staying up late and waddling my big pregnant belly to a stage downtown to talk about startups, parenting, philosophy, and systems. Srini Rao is the bestselling author of Unmistakable: Why Only Is Better Than Best, and will be leading the discussion.
- [How to Do A Quarterly Review](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/06/how-to-do-a-quarterly-review/) - One of my favorite practices as a business owner is to do a quarterly review and reflection. Each quarter I set OKR's, or measurable goals, and reflect on the progress made in the last quarter. A quarter is a perfect amount of time to set a goal and make progress on it, and it's a great interval to catch yourself if you're not making any forward progress, either. For the last several years of my life, quarters have been the backbone of part of my planning process. Here's what OKRs are, how they work, and my system for quarterly review.
- [How My Kid Teaches Me About Leadership](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/05/how-my-kid-teaches-me-about-leadership/) - The learning curve of building a new human from scratch and re-wiring yourself as a parent and a functioning adult comes with plenty of challenges. Yet it also feels strangely familiar: like the long days of marathon training, or like the late nights studying to get your MBA on the side of your full-time gig. Here's how parenting rewires us as leaders.
- [The Word You Keep Using](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/05/the-word-you-keep-using/) - Our subconscious has a way of winding itself into our writing, if we're paying attention. This practice always startles me, by reminding me of something that was sideways and not quite at the surface.
- [Three Things To Grow Rich In (That Aren't Money)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/04/three-things-to-grow-rich-in-that-arent-money/) - Wealth can be created across more areas than just financially. Sure, monetary wealth can be a beautiful thing, and I've got aims to grow wealthy in money. But there's three areas that are more important to me for wealth than just money.
- [If Facebook Went Away](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/04/if-facebook-went-away/) - If Facebook went away, what would change for you? How would you spend your mornings? Your workday? And what would you miss? And conversely, what would change for the better? It might be the biggest social network we’ve ever seen, but it’s also constantly changing, and it’s undergoing more investigation for its role in changing how our brains and communities work. Here's what I'd miss, what would change, and why I still use it (for now).
- [Why You Shouldn't Give Up After One Launch](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/04/why-you-shouldnt-give-up-after-one-launch/) - Launches aren’t easy. Sometimes when you launch, it’s the first time people are paying attention to you. They’re watching and learning and listening and waiting. Putting into the calendar for next time to join when you do it again. Listening, reading, learning. Finding out about you for the first time. Deciding and debating, hesitating. One data point—your first launch—is not enough data to make a decision. It's only the start of an exploration. Your next steps? Here's what I recommend.
- [The 20-Hour Work Week](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/03/20-hour-work-week/) - Around December last year, I realized that I wanted to plan ahead for the year differently. I was tired of pushing for "more," and feeling like I was spinning my wheels trying to do a hundred things at once. Instead, over a series of notebook pages, I started to sketch out where my time was going, and what I was truly working on. The results shocked me — and they made me rethink how I set up my business in 2018. Listen as I break down the process I used while live on The Kate & Mike Show!
- [Letting Things Break](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/03/letting-things-break/) - In the process of pursuing new ways of working, it means you're going to build new habits. Building new habits isn't always a piece of cake: sometimes it's rusty, weird, and feels uncomfortable. If you want things to stay the same, then keep doing exactly what you're doing. If you want to get new results, you have to try new things. Right now, there's one area of my life where I'm deliberately letting things break, and it's not pretty. It's uncomfortable. And I'm probably going to disappoint people. Read what it is and why I'm okay experimenting with it.
- [Working Parents: Transforming What Work Looks Like](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/03/working-parents-transforming-work-looks-like/) - One of my favorite things to study and observe is how work is changing. Two decades ago, we didn't have any of the social networks we have today. Three decades ago, email and the internet weren't regular tools. So much about work is changing: what it looks like, what our expectations of it are, what our requirements are, how we engage with each other, where we work from. Some of the progress is great, while other areas still leave a lot left to be improved. For Forbes' last week, I got to write about eight entrepreneurial parents that are changing the way work looks, whether it's through their company, or by how they're showing up in the work world. I'm consistently inspired by entrepreneurs, and by parents. Here's the article if you'd like to read about these outstanding entrepreneurs, and if you're interested in parenting and leadership, you can also follow my column.
- [Never Choose Seven](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/03/never-choose-seven/) - A simple trick that helped me make better decisions. Truly—this mindset shift has stuck with me every since I learned about it many weeks ago.
- [Teleportation](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/02/teleportation/) - I find there's a secret magic in the written word. Here's why it's so powerful. Also — I interviewed Danielle LaPorte on the podcast, if you're curious to listen in.
- [Leveling Up](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/02/leveling-up/) - Imagine your email inbox was filled only with messages from the highest players in your field. Oprah, Tim, Seth, Shondra. What would you do differently? Imagine your product becomes a hit sensation, and you have hundreds (or thousands) of new customers joining you every day. Are you ready? What would you do differently? Imagine the
- [Am I The Kind Of Person Who...?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/01/am-i-the-kind-of-person-who/) - Today I want to talk about habit shifts, and how to once again get back into a habit you want to cultivate when you veer off course. I've written about it before. The reason I keep writing about it is because habit shifts, like taking care of a physical home, take ongoing care and maintenance. Building habits is like taking care of a home, but it's your person-as-home, your mental space, your human space. And I, like everyone else, need to clean my house on a fairly regular basis. And the habit of re-starting can be challenging. So I asked a good friend and coach for help. Her answer—and the question she shared with me—worked. It worked really well.
- [How to Finish A Book](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/01/how-to-finish-a-book/) - One thing that's come up after publishing my 2017 reading list is how surprised I am (and others are!) that I was able to read 53 books in a year. True story: in 2016, I probably read 10 books, and finished ... well, let's say I read a lot of half books. It's easy to get distracted by another book. Shiny object syndrome is real, and I found that I had started to skim everything. My obsessive reading of internet articles had made me a bad reader. This was a wake-up call. If I couldn't finish a book, was I really learning? Here are the habits I changed last year to increase my reading. And also, my rules for how to decide when NOT to read a book.
- [My 2017 Annual Report](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018/01/2017-annual-review/) - Every year I do an annual review, and the process teaches me so much. It's invaluable. Central to my work in studying who we are and why we do what we do is a steady aim of building life-worthy habits. I’m fascinated by my daily, monthly, and yearly habits, and how to continually improve my own performance. I've decided to go ahead and (gulp) share it, in entirety. I'm a bit nervous to do so, because when I started writing it, it was just for me. The insights are personal and raw, and it recaps a year that professionally, felt often like a struggle and a challenge. No triumph, no magic wand. There were solid successes: The mastermind program I built went well, and sustained my end of my agreements with my partner. The podcast was a surprise, and a delight. But writing? That was really hard this year. It felt like a failure.
- [Silence, Stillness, and Returning From Retreat](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/12/silence-stillness-returning-retreat/) - Last week I left to go to a four-day silent retreat up in the snowy rural woods of central Massachusetts. The retreat was long days of sitting and walking meditations, mindful eating, noble silence, and being in stillness. We were instructed not to journal or read, and we relinquished our cell phones and devices upon
- [The Writer's Workshop Live & Small-Group Writing Circle](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/08/writers-workshop-live-writing-group/) - This Fall, for the first time in three years, I'm teaching a live (via the Internet) gathering of The Writer's Workshop. We'll come together for eight weeks to practice writing, form writing groups, and gather for live calls in order to get better at storytelling, narrative, and persuasion. Sign up early, space is limited.
- [Keeping Secrets With Yourself](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/11/keeping-secrets-with-yourself/) - For the last several months—actually, the past year—I’ve been running experiments on myself and my process. One month I gave up social media. The next month I played with internet blockers. For three months I’ve been doing mornings pages, with few exceptions. But the thing I keep struggling to figure out is how to get more writing done. More writing in. The business trap is real. I’m not sure what else to call it, other than the pull of the machine: emails to answer, blog posts to write. It’s easy to get sucked into the frenzy of doing things for doing’s sake, and the tangible output of writing a draft, or even just plucking away at the next stage of researching, always seems to be time whittled away. This week, however, I stumbled on something that turned my mind upside down.
- [What Can You Do in 9 Minutes?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/11/can-9-minutes/) - My practice of showing up for the stitches and patches of time that make up a lot of my day, and how I use them as areas for micro practice.
- [10 Brilliant Women Entrepreneurs on Parenting, Perspective, and Life](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/11/10-brilliant-women-entrepreneurs-parenting-perspective-life/) - One of the quiet (and not-so-quiet) ways that women entrepreneurs are changing the future is by building companies in a manner that reflects the future they want to live in. As part of the Startup Pregnant project, we’re interviewing 100 women entrepreneurial parents to understand how they’re pioneering not just new companies, but new families, and new modes of doing business. Here are ten of the brilliant insights (of hundreds!) we’ve gained from these first ten episodes.
- [Start Here: A New Map to Guide You Through My Website](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/10/start-new-map-guide-website/) - One puzzle of being a regular blogger is considering what the collection of essays adds up to over time. I've written before about why I write, my writing habits and how important it is to me to show up to the process. Recently I made a new map to exploring all of these essays and I'm excited to show it to you.
- [Here, I Made This For You](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/09/here-i-made-this-for-you/) - I made something that I've been working on for quite a while: the Startup Pregnant Podcast is a radio show that dives into the lives and stories of women starting businesses and starting families. We interview lots of parents from all stripes, and business owners of all types. Take a look. It's now available in iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play. Would love to know what you think of the first few episodes.
- [Our Dying Attention is a Big Problem](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/09/attention/) - Over the bulk of the last year, I've been focused on adding meditation, quality, and depth to my life in a meaningful way. That includes: rethinking my relationship to reading, and reading entire books, slowly. With notes. Deepening my ability to focus and pay attention. Putting parental controls on my technology to block social media. Today, I share a round-up of essays that have helped me. Here are 17 essays on attention, anxiety, being over-busy, and why our lack of recharge time is more problematic than we think.
- [How to Give Great Advice (and Why Most Advice Doesn't Work)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/09/give-great-advice/) - It's fun to brainstorm, to be clever, to solve things. But sometimes other people don't need us to solve their problem, offer advice, or jump in with the perfect story. Sometimes they just need us to listen. Listening isn't being quiet: it's an active process. And it takes work to listen well. Here are a few strategies for being better at giving advice (without giving advice).
- [8 Great Reads to Play Bigger, Grow Professionally, and Level Up Your Leadership Skills](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/10/8-great-reads-play-bigger-grow-professionally-level-leadership-skills/) - When you're stuck in a four-year rut at work, or in your startup, or on a project—how do you get out of it? How do you step back, see the big picture, and find a way to level up? Whether it's chasing the next promotion, doubling down on your current project, or finding a way to get better at the work you're currently doing, here are the best books I've read on playing bigger, taking the leap, and doubling down on your professional wisdom.
- [How Do You Decide What Book to Read Next?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/10/many-books-little-time/) - If I could read every (good) book ever made, I would. But, time has a way of limiting us, and I want quality over quantity. Recently I stumbled on a great way of choosing which book to read next. Here's how it works.
- [7 Moving Memoirs on Life, Death, Sex, Poverty and Parenting](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/10/7-moving-memoirs-life-death-sex-poverty-parenting/) - Here are seven memoirs that have stuck with me long after I've put them down. From parenting to social pressure, to the deep history of a country, to reckoning with death, dying, and growing up poor: this collection of books takes you inside the experiences of different human lives.
- [I Quit Social Media For 30 Days and Here's What I Learned](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/08/quit-social-media-30-days/) - Last month, I quit social media for 30 days. I deleted Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter from my phone and computer and signed out for the month. Here’s what happened and what I learned. Would love to know what you've tried and what's worked for you.
- [The Hidden Power of Interviews (and How to Get Better at Them)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/10/interviews/) - I used to hate interviews. I stammered, I inserted words such as “like” and “um” a whole bunch, and my voice pitched up at the end of nearly every sentence. I sounded exactly like what I was—a young 20-something female with insecurity about my ideas. Then I started listening to the interviews and analyzing them.
- [Why Are Stories so Important?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/05/why-are-stories-so-important/) - The world is overcrowded with information. We’re wired to tell stories because it’s how we make sense of the world around us. Stories let us distill large, complex ideas and important messages into sticky, memorable pieces that we can carry forward with us in our minds. In the absence of a person or a phenomenon,
- [November Writing Theme: Connection](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/11/november-writing-theme-connection/) - Each month I share a monthly writing prompt for you to reflect on, write about, and discuss. I’ll be writing a lot on this theme, and I invite you to join me in writing by linking your blog in the comments below or following the hashtag #mowriting on Twitter or Instagram. Connection: What is it?
- [Losing Everything, Losing Nothing: It's All There](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/03/losing-everything-losing-nothing/) - A few months ago I was typing notes furiously into the tiny screen of my phone, my go-to source for dumping ideas when a pen and paper isn't handy. I pushed "new note" as the ideas flooded out of my mind that morning; suddenly, as the program opened up a new screen, it stalled, paused for
- [Mediocrity is Deadening. Be Different, Be Daring, Be Unusual.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/01/mediocrity-is-deadening-be-different-be-daring-be-unusual/) - When the world asks you for typical, do one better. When you're surrounded by people who do only as much as they have to, you'll feel pulled to do the same. Mediocrity is a pull towards the middle. Averages pull brightness down. Standards might bring the lowest up to passing, but they'll also be a strong
- [Are You Chasing Productivity At The Expense of Your Soul?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/are-you-chasing-productivity-at-the-expense-of-your-soul/) - I’m struggling with two competing challenges: being present and mindful, while also chasing the ego-driven aims of “success” and “productivity.” Is there a middle ground? I reached out to my dear friend Mathias Jakobsen, author and creator of Think Clearly, to dissect this competing pull between these two desires. This is the conversation. Two Competing
- [The Necessity of Darkness](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/the-necessity-of-darkness/) - I popped out of bed this morning and thought to myself, boy, it’s really dark outside. Usually I pull the curtains back and there’s at least a tiny bit of light. I’m an early riser, and naturally wake up around 6AM, give or take when I get to sleep. This morning at 5:56AM, it was
- [How We See Ourselves: On Identity, Labels, and Privilege](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/man-in-the-mirror/) - Do you know the story about when a man is asked to look in a mirror? He's asked what he sees. He says "myself" (usually he says his name, "I see John," etc). A woman looks in the mirror and says, "I see a woman." A black woman says, "I see a black woman." How we
- [Beating Procrastination: 14 Days In, Missed My First Deadline](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/beating-procrastination-14-days-in-missed-my-first-deadline/) - I missed my deadline this morning — I usually like to have something scheduled to publish for 6 AM each day. What I've been doing is writing during the day and scheduling the post for the following day so I don't stress on any single day. But, like promised, I missed a day. Caught a cold on
- [Should You Worry Now Or Later?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/worry/) - There are so many unknowns coming ahead on the horizon: Will we have a baby that sleeps or a baby that cries non stop? Will I love being a mom or will it be an immense challenge? Will I bond with my kid right away or will it take time? Will breastfeeding be hard or
- [12 Unusual Things to Clean, Organize, and Sort — To Let Go of The Past & Prepare For the New](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/12-unusual-things-to-clean-organize-and-sort-to-let-go-of-the-past-prepare-for-the-new/) - A few months ago, I started cleaning out unusual things. One bright Saturday morning, I woke to spent the day obsessively cleaning. Not frantically, and not hyperactively. But I did move steadily from one thing to the next, surprising myself with how much I could clean and how much these small, little things were calling
- [Get Better at Scheduling Your Time, Get Better at Email (New Classes)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/11/get-better-at-scheduling-your-time-get-better-at-email-new-classes/) - Do you ever get overwhelmed by scheduling your day, week, or month? Does email bog you down or frustrate you? I'm teaching two new virtual seminars this November all about rethinking the way you schedule your week (November 9th) and becoming a jedi master with your email inbox (November 17th). The seminars are 1-hour long, live, and will
- [The Introvert's Guide to Networking at a Conference](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/01/the-introverts-guide-to-networking-at-a-conference/) - My friend was recently excited about a conference but terrified of going and getting overwhelmed. He texted me: “Help! do you have any good networking advice for introverts at conferences?" Conferences are a great way to meet people, and it’s one of the best ways I’ve used to reach out to new people, connect with
- [Want to be a better storyteller? Two new online workshops, April 24th and 29th.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/04/storytelling-classes-1/) - Humans are born storytellers. The way we tell and share our stories about who we are, what we do, and what we want affects who sees us, hears about us, and whether or not the right people connect with us. If you want to learn how to describe yourself or your business (or both), join
- [The Writer's Workshop is now open for our summer session! Join us for the next class—and kickstart your writing into high gear.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/05/the-writers-workshop-is-now-open-for-our-summer-session-join-us-for-the-next-class-and-kickstart-your-writing-into-high-gear/) - It's baaaaack! The Writer's Workshop will open up again this summer for a brand-new six-week session beginning June 30th. The Writer's Workshop is a live course focused on improving your storytelling, writing, and narrative abilities through eight masterful lectures and exercises — together with a community of co-writers to share the journey. We interview experts across the industry in
- [Are You In Love With the Product or the Process?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/06/product-or-process/) - “My job is to do, not to judge." — Dani Shapiro Sometimes, as writers or as makers, we become obsessed with the outcome. The work itself as object, as product — not as process. We judge, criticize, and refuse to do the work when we see the outcome as one great failure. Push publish anyways, I
- [6 Ways to Improve Your Teaching, Public Speaking, and Presentations](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/10/5-ways-to-improve-your-teaching-public-speaking-and-presentations/) - Speaking and writing are such gifts: they let you put together ideas, deep ideas, rich ideas, and share them with an audience. In a world of quick conversation and superficial conversation, books and well-thought out presentations can still carry the weight of an idea across rooms and minds. It takes a lot of work to put together a great talk or a complete book (sometimes years or decades of research) — and
- ["Stay Tuned"](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/10/stay-tuned/) - There are lots of marketing phrases and cultural habits that we have from the 20th century that no longer make sense in the 21st century. But, because of the ever-turning force of habit, we keep them around. One of my least favorite sign-offs and marketing phrases is “Stay tuned.” "Stay tuned" used to be a way
- [The Most Important Thing That You're Not Doing](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/05/what-youre-not-doing/) - I was chatting via email with a family friend of mine who reads my writing from time to time. I lamented the non-publication of this book I'm "trying" to work on. At the end of her reply, she wrote: "Don't bother writing me back; just get to writing on your book!" Her words hit me like
- [Finish or Punt](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/05/finish-or-punt/) - Ever have too many projects and don't know what to do? Friday was a bit of a panic. I've got 8 projects overwhelming me right now. I honestly thought I'd drop all 8 balls and let them come smashing to the floor in a bit of Awesome Failure Glory. Panicked. You know, the "I'm going to be
- [Do Less Work By Asking For What You Want](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/08/do-less-work-by-asking-for-what-you-want/) - Ever need help with something and don't know how to ask? Or worse, you think you have to do every step of it yourself? The other day I was chatting with a good friend of mine. A freelance graphic designer with a decent set of clients, he found himself too busy and overworked--and he began
- [The Secret Beauty in Complaining](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/12/complaining/) - My head buzzes when I am around people who start to complain too much. It's like an electric current goes through my head, starts building, and then my frazzled mind-space begins to implode under all of the pressure. I like solving problems, and can be known to interrupt or interject with "Yeah, sure, okay, but — how
- [Creative Flow: 17 Writer’s Tricks to Get Unstuck](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/11/finding-your-creative-flow-17-writers-tricks-to-get-un-stuck-and-start-creating/) - I wrung my hands, trying to figure out what to write next. It was a typical afternoon at the computer: Somehow I had amassed more browser tabs than laundry quarters, each of which was threatening to pull me into an endless loop of reading more things on the internet — all conspiring to collect as
- [One Big Thing You Can Do to Improve Your Business + Life](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/01/improve/) - "Writing doesn’t just communicate ideas; it generates them. If you’re bad at writing and don’t like to do it, you’ll miss out on most of the ideas writing would have generated." -Paul Graham Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired magazine, wrote that "the new economy is about communication, deep and wide... Communication is the foundation of society, of
- [Your Life is a Set of Made-Up Habits](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/01/life-habits/) - Your life is a set of made-up habits. You learned how to behave by doing something, and then repeating it hundreds, if not hundreds of thousands of times until it became normal for you. When talking to one of my yoga instructors the other day, he said: "Want to change your personality? Just do something
- [Does Money Make You Crazy? The Money Toolbox [Review]](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/04/does-money-make-you-crazy-the-money-toolbox-leave-debt-behind-build-your-savings-and-grow-your-wealth/) - Want money? Money advice often boils down to some basic tenets: spend less than you make, or conversely, make more than you spend. Increase your earnings, then maximize your returns. Sounds simple—in theory. But the difficulty lies in the application. How do you actually do it so that it changes? What do you do when
- [Make Time and Space for What Matters](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/what-matters/) - Make time and space for the things that are the most important to you. If you don't know what those are, make time and space for the finding out what things are most important to you. Making time and space for what matters means you need to know what matters to you. So: what matters
- [Why Do Cars Have Brakes?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/03/brake/) - "The more sure we are, the more likely we are to suffer an illusion." - Jerry Weinberg Why do automobiles have brakes? To stop, right? To stop. That's one answer. Is there another answer? I heard this on the radio recently, and I jotted it down in my mental notebook. Cars have brakes so they
- [You Gotta Slow Down to Speed Up](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/04/slow-speed/) - But with all this speed, we start wobbling. Making mistakes. Not seeing where we're actually going. And too often, I see entrepreneurs and business owners prioritize speed over depth. Is it better to go fast, or to go far? Speed and consistency are two separate things, and one more often than not is indicative of
- [What You Don't See](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/04/what-you-dont-see/) - What you see is not all there is It's late on a Saturday night, and I feel a slight pull to go out, to put down my notebooks, to wander outside and do the "going out" thing I sometimes like to do. I feel the tug, the urge to walk down to the local bars,
- [The Never-Ending Curiosity of a 5-Year Old: Why, How? What? and Why?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/06/why/) - Why? Why-why-why-why-why? My brain is like a 5-year old, and up until recently, it was like an over-caffeinated 5-year old without a chance to get outside and run around on the playground. I find myself fixated on the WHY question, as well as the WHAT and the HOW, and I can’t help but wonder, about,
- [“Desiderata,” by Max Ehrmann (1927)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/07/desiderata/) - Wandering through the Presidio National Park in San Francisco, and overlooking the San Francisco National Cemetery. Each and every human, past, present and future: You are all loved. Desiderata (Latin: "desired things"), is a 1927 poem by American writer Max Ehrmann (1872–1945). It's one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Sometimes
- [A Few of the Things I'm So Grateful For](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/11/trunk/) - What’s in the trunk? My dad just moved to Colorado and I’m here for the week, visiting for the first time. The cold, snowy mountains outside of Denver are filled with deer, elk, and other creatures that wander up to the backyard and say hello. (There's also a new dog in the family that's
- [Project Hangovers and Self Criticism](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/02/project-hangovers/) - I have a confession. Sometimes–more nearly like every time–after finishing a project, I hate it. My writing class? Sucks, obviously. Last week's essay? Good God, that could have been better. All those open and empty drafts waiting to be finished? Seriously, could have worked harder to get those done. And on and on... My brain
- [A Little Note on Letting Go](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/02/cleanse/) - Clear your plate. Let go of things that don't serve you. That don't inspire you. Give up things that aren't working. Release. Let out a deep sigh. Pause. Inhale. Exhale. Take a shower. Dunk in a waterfall. Wash it clean, letting water drip down around you, pour over your head. Feel the world rinse you off, like a
- [What to Do About Negative Feedback](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/07/negative-feedback/) - Are you hungry enough? So I'm at home on a Saturday night, and I'm watching America's Next Top Model, one of my guilty pleasures and trashy TV shows that I sometimes tune into (it's that, Project Runway, and Suits that make me curl up with a bowl of popcorn after a long day). While you can hold
- [Why is Moving So Hard? The Struggle to Lighten Up, Give Up, Let Go](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/07/lighten-up/) - “Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” — William Morris. Everything changes. I just emptied an apartment full of furniture, things, stories, and stuff. I carried couches, desks, and pieces of furniture up and down (and up and down) many flights of stairs across hilly
- [When the Blues Hit, What Do You Do?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/12/when-the-blues-hit-what-do-you-do-notes-on-darkness-sadness-and-melancholy/) - What do you do when you get sad? Sometimes dwelling in darkness can be a helpful, healthy adventure. Other times, too much time in the dark can prompt stagnation and wallowing. How do you know how far to go? When is it too much? When is darkness healthy and when is digging into rumination too
- [Go Your Own Way](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/03/go-your-own-way/) - "Squeezing your business (or career, or relationship, or lifestyle) into someone else's plan hurts, and it denies your own self-leadership." — Tara Gentile, Quiet Power Strategy There are a lot of plans and products out there that sell you a process or a formula. It seems so sexy, doesn't it? A prescription-ready answer for building
- [What's Your Story?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/04/whats-your-story/) - You. On the cover of a magazine. Big, bold, splashy words. You're wearing something sharp. Five years down the road from now, you're doing an exclusive interview, and someone is telling your story to a captive audience. Just a few questions for you, in this daydream: First, what magazine would it be? Second, what would
- [How Much Should You Share with the Internet, Anyways?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/06/how-much-should-you-share-with-the-internet-anyways/) - This is the third in a series of posts about building your voice on the internet and making work that sees the light of day for people who have been wanting to blog, create, make, or write. I host a quarterly writing workshop for people interested in learning more about storytelling and writing. The class will
- [From Love or Hurt?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/04/from-love-or-hurt/) - An overwhelming number of human reactions come from a place of love or pain. When someone offers you criticism, look at what they say (no need to internalize it immediately; instead observe it and ask yourself if the critic-giver is an important person or voice in your life, and how valuable it is); then: ask
- [Stop Gmail Overwhelm With These Two Scripts](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/11/stop-gmail-overwhelm-with-these-two-scripts/) - How to find and send emails (without going into your email inbox): “I’m having trouble keeping up with my inbox,” a friend wrote on Facebook, asking for email tricks and tools people loved. I use a ton of email productivity measures, and I always forget that we all have vastly different habits and routines. Here are a few
- [Rock Their Socks Off: How to Create An Online Profile](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/06/rock-their-socks-off-how-to-create-an-online-profile/) - Who are you? How do you describe yourself to other people? Business cards are great - for when you meet in person. (I love the ones I have!) But you can't send them out via email or snail mail. And email signatures are becoming so inflated, it's downright annoying. (You know what I'm talking about. The
- [Write Every Day For A Month: A 30-Day Challenge](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/writing-every-day-a-30-day-project/) - What does it look like to write every day for 30 days? I’ve seen many of my friends do it from time to time, and I’ve always wondered what writing every day would do for me. Corbett Barr (of Fizzle) shared what he learned from writing every day for 30 days: it became easier to
- [Have A Point of View](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/have-a-point-of-view/) - In our fear of being wrong, or looking stupid, or losing out on opportunities — we waffle. We waver. We fail to make decisions. We try to make decisions that leave all the options open. We'll try it all, rather than pick a single dish. We'll date as many people as possible, rather than cultivate deeper relationships.
- [February Monthly Writing Theme: Perspective](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/02/january-monthly-writing-theme-perspective/) - Each month I share a monthly writing prompt for you to reflect on, write about, and discuss. I’ll be writing a lot on this theme, and I invite you to join me in writing by linking your blog in the comments below or following the hashtag #mowriting on Twitter or Instagram. Perspective: What is it? How
- [Want More Connection?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/02/look-and-connect/) - I have a friend who seems to run into people he knows everywhere he goes. He seems like the most connected person I know. I laughed and asked him how he does it. Here's what he shared with me.
- [My Monthly Review Practice](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/11/bigger/) - It’s the end of the month (Happy Halloween!) and I’m sitting down to do my monthly review--which happens as close to the 30th as I can get each month, give or take a couple of days depending on my schedule and deadlines. I find that I like to check-in on the 30th to see how things
- [We Did it! We Raised $33,298!](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/09/we-did-it/) - Raising $29,000 for charity: water and swimming from Alcatraz wearing nothing but my birthday suit!
- [You Don't Get it Back: Thoughts From a Swimming Alumni](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/03/swimming-alumni/) - It's been a long few weeks--I'm traveling back and forth for lectures, office visits and events and find myself staring out the plane window more often than not. This morning, on the plane ride across the country from San Francisco to Philadelphia, I remembered that this weekend is also a big weekend in college swimming.
- [Alone in the Water: Swimming Bridge to Bridge](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/10/alone-in-the-water-bridge-to-bridge/) - May Twenty One. Two thousand eleven. Saturday. It's eight in the evening. I’m tired, but I can’t sleep. My eyes stay open even underneath the closed lids, and I think fleetingly about tomorrow. I’m tucked into my warm bed, lying flat against the bed covers, staring up at the ceiling. Words and ideas dance across
- [Why You Have to Ask](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/07/if-you-dont-ask/) - What happens when you don’t ask? Well, one thing’s for certain: You won’t find out. So, ask. Say what you want. Often you can't get what you want until you put yourself out there.
- [Case Study: Making Restaurant Decisions Easier](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/03/designing-for-user/) - I was sitting at a restaurant not too long ago, reading through another incredibly long list of options, both overwhelmed and exasperated by the choices in front of me. I just want something good to eat! I thought. I don't want to read everything and choose. My analytically-focused brain, however, often prompts me to read every single option before making
- [Easy?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/12/easy/) - When did someone sit down and promise you that it was supposed to be easy? Or better yet, fair? It’s not guaranteed to be easy or fair, and the people who get what they want go after it--in spite of and because of--each and every advantage or disadvantage they are thrown.
- [How to Write More Handwritten Notes](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/10/handwritten-notes/) - I love checking the mailbox. I've had pen pals since I was seven years old — and it's one of the ways Alex and I first met. Yet in today's busy-busy world, how do you make time to sit down, get out the pen, and write a note? Here are a few tricks you might love: 1.
- [The "Working Vacation" or How I Briefly Escape From Insanity](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/03/working-vacation/) - I'm on a slow retreat, one in which I escape--although not completely--from the working world. I'm taking a long weekend in Catalina, off the coast of southern California, to spend time with my family, catch up on writing, and slow down on the work-crazy that sometimes takes hold. (Okay, fine, it takes hold all the
- [How to Create an Online Home You Love: a one-night live event in NYC with Holstee](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/09/how-to-create-an-online-home-you-love-a-one-night-live-event-in-nyc-with-holstee-my-hubby-me/) - How's your internet home treating you? Are you loving it, hating it, indifferent towards it, or ... not making it? If you've ever wanted to start a blog, write an e-book, or create your own online home powerhouse to showcase your creative ideas, then it's time to make it happen. I'm thrilled to announce a
- [A Little Bit Is A Lot](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/03/a-little-is-a-lot/) - Feels like I just touched down in San Francisco and turned around and took off again! After getting back in town after last week's working vacation, I’m off again to Dallas and then Austin, Texas for work, conferences and a weekend in Austin. I'm looking forward to seeing a lot of new and familiar faces
- [How To Make a Difference](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/05/how-to-make-a-difference/) - No one cares about your ideas. They care about what you do with those ideas. Figure out how things work. Figure out why things are the way they are. Learn like crazy, and never stop. Learn how and where you can make changes. If the structure isn't working, ask yourself why: Is it the people? The assumptions?
- [The Power of Breath: Why Breathing Happens Before All Else](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/10/the-power-of-breath-why-breathing-happens-before-anything-else/) - It’s not always easy to breathe. Breathing—the intake of oxygen and the exhalation of carbon dioxide—is life’s essential force. It’s the first step our physical bodies take towards making all other actions possible, including thinking. In swimming, the rhythm of breathing is essential: you only have a few opportunities to catch a breath; it’s about
- [The Man at the Grocery Store](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/10/the-man-at-the-grocery-store/) - The man in the grocery store is in love with me. I can tell by the way that his eyes watch me, and the way he smiles at me from behind the counter. I pull my basket up around the edge of the aisle, glancing briefly at the pop tart magazines. Mmm… chocolate. I grab
- [Little Online Moments](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/little-online-moments/) - It was her first post on Medium. She wrote about her beautiful son. And the hardest thing that she had been through — heart-wrenching. I read the first essay from her husband, bookmarked it, held her and her family in my hearts. I’ve never met her, but I cried for her family nonetheless. A year
- [Send a Friend a Love Letter](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/11/send-a-friend-a-love-letter/) - I have the bad habit of hiding and holing myself away for a while. It's when I'm deep in writing, processing, or thinking. I get a bit estranged from the connectivity of it all. When I emerge, I begin to remember things that I used to do, that I've forgotten. A quick sniff of my
- [What Is Grace and Why Does It Hurt so Much?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/08/what-is-grace-and-why-does-it-hurt-so-much-what-i-learned-about-emotional-resilience-through-a-10-day-detox-retreat-in-ubud-bali/) - “The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it.” — Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul On the black sands of the Java Sea. The waves crashed over my limbs as sobs heaved in and out of my chest. I
- [A Serving of Gratitude Saves the Day](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/11/gratitude-saves-the-day/) - Did you see the headline of the New York Times? It turns out that a serving of gratitude does wonders for you psychologically: "Cultivating an “attitude of gratitude” has been linked to better health, sounder sleep, less anxiety and depression, higher long-term satisfaction with life and kinder behavior toward others, including romantic partners. A new study shows that feeling
- [50 Things That Make Me Happy](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/50-things-that-make-me-happy/) - In the free series of writing prompts I put together, one of the prompts is to make a list of 50 things that make you happy. I love lists (they're one of the things that makes me happy!), and I love using lists as a way to kick-start my writing. It's not writing, it's making a
- [Slowing Down to Connect Across the World: Two Sisters](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/12/slowing-down-to-connect-across-the-world-two-sisters-reconnecting-guest-reflections-by-easkey-and-beckey-finn-britton/) - You immediately inspired me to have a ‘slow morning’ – get my body moving with some gentle, nourishing stretches and movements (from Dad’s routine!), make French press coffee and sit on the deck in the morning sun thinking nothing at all. Spying some wild blueberries on a nearby bush and foraging for my breakfast…
- [Commitment](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/05/commitment/) - Goethe, on The Power of Commitment: "Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative ( and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All
- [Ten Things for Right Now](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/04/ten-things-for-right-now/) - Ten vows for - the new year - right now. I write a letter to myself every year (in addition to journaling and obsessive list-making and many other things involving pens, paper and imagination). One of the most important things on my list is not just what I want to achieve, but also my best guess
- [How Do You Feel Before, During, and After?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/11/how-do-you-feel-before-during-and-after/) - Today I want to share with you about a way to connect inwardly, with yourself. But first, a quick story. I work with coaches. A lot of coaches. I've worked with college coaches, swim coaches, book coaches, life coaches... you name it, I like doing it. One of my most recent coaches has worked with me on
- [How to Know When You're Communicating Well](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/11/how-to-know-when-youre-communicating-well/) - Communication is one of the most challenging aspects of leadership. Often I see young leaders and CEOs (myself included) getting frustrated because they said or emailed something once, and it's not sticking. Communication is often about repeating yourself. You need to explain yourself, explain it again, return to the idea at the end of the
- [What Questions Are You Asking? (Three Questions For Reconnection)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/11/what-questions-are-you-asking-three-questions-for-reconnection/) - We are the questions we ask. We are the way we inquire, curiously, about the world we work in. As I was going through what was (for me), a difficult pregnancy, I looked to my partner and asked, time and time again: "How do I make it through this?" It's hard to believe now, but
- [What's On Your Mind?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/01/onyourmind/) - "We're not here, for that long, anyway. But to spend almost half our time lost in thought, and for the most part unhappy at that--well that's pretty tragic, isn't it?" -- Andy Puddicombe How does your mind work? What brought you here? What patterns occupy your thoughts and recur, repeatedly? Andy Puddicombe talks about the
- [Just One](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/01/just-one/) - What would just one of something look like? Not a diversity of items, but a simplicity of things. A specificity, a selection, and a deliberate choice between several? Not three workout programs, but just one workout program. Not seven yoga mats or towels, but just one. Not eight new dresses or blouses, but just one. Your
- ["Good, Fine, Busy"](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/01/good-fine-busy/) - When someone asks you how you are, do you answer in one of the following three ways? I’m good! I’m fine. Ohhh, Busy. Imagine eliminating those three words. What would you say instead? How would you respond? Inspired in part by a sign on my wall, and a 2003 post by Penelope Trunk called “Stop
- [Start Where You Are](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/06/start-where-you-are/) - Where are you? Just a few weeks ago: I’m sitting on the floor of an empty studio, barefoot, with not a piece of furniture in it. Boxes line the hallways and two giant moving trucks are parked out in the street. Every so often our dogs bark, whining about being pent up in the back.
- [Morning and Evening Meditations and Reflections: Two Book](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/07/morning-and-evening-meditations-and-reflections-two-books-i-love/) - What are you filling your mind with? What are you musing upon, reflecting on, what things are you considering today? Sometimes when I get wrapped up in the throes of launching a new project, or just simply taking on too many projects, I don't quite find I have enough time to sit leisurely and read
- [Making Change Align With the Seasons](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/09/time-to-change-fall-reflections/) - When is the best time to make change? The shifting seasons are a perfect time to reflect on your year, create new intentions, and let go of past problems. It's time to start clean, and embrace the next phase of growth.
- ["You can have everything you want." — "You will never be enough."](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/09/everything-scarcity-enough/) - Are we being taught to want everything and never be happy with anything that we get? Why these two cultural mindsets don't serve us--and how pervasive they are in our everyday lives.
- [A Little Rest Can Add a Lot of Happy](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/12/a-little-rest-can-add-a-lot-of-happy/) - Are you tired? There's something I've been reminded of lately— Happiness doesn't come from doing nothing; too much of nothing often feels more depressing. But in the midst of the busy, happiness can come from a little bit of rest. A change to your schedule. A two-hour reprieve with a babysitter. A Friday night in.
- [The Power of Silence: In Conversation, In Contemplation, In Being](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/the-power-of-silence-in-conversation-in-contemplation-in-being/) - I sometimes think that when I get sick, it's because I've forgotten to listen. I've forgotten to listen internally, to my body. I've let it get too noisy and not gotten still enough to hear what's going on. After a cold sets in, I realize that the chatter in my brain has gotten to excessively
- [Four Mantras All Writers Know And Love](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/02/four-writing-mantras/) - I'm on a writing retreat with my younger sister and family this weekend, and we're editing, writing, and working on several projects (from crochet to design to catching up on other unfinished ideas). We were sitting by the ocean, bantering about writing and editing. She shared four "writing mantras," from one of her favorite teachers,
- [Hustle Is A Dial, Not A Way of Being](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/02/hustle/) - There are appropriate times to hustle in your business. Sometimes you’re hustling for a year or two on the side, creating your escape route and freedom business to jump ship from your corporate job. Sometimes you stay up late and hustle the night before a course launches, or when you're putting the final tweaks on
- [When You Fall Down, Break Your Routine, or Stop: Notes on Re-Starting](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/08/when-you-fall-down-break-your-routine-or-stop-writing-notes-on-re-starting/) - The rhythm breaks. The routine falters. You write, so diligently, and then a week slips by. Getting back into the structure of things — writing — is even more challenging when traveling, moving, changing. I can make a million excuses; writing and making time for writing is and always seems so hard. It's easier when I'm
- [Ship. Iterate. Improve. Repeat.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/09/ship-iterate-improve-repeat/) - How do you make something great? Start small. Build something that you can do today, this week. Ship a little piece of it. Stop holding on to it. Maybe keep the idea big, but just start with something so small you can't not do it. Make the smallest version possible. Give it away. Share it. Sell
- [Have You Ever Lost Your Temper?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/11/temper/) - This is an excerpt of an essay from my twelve-essay short series on Grace and Gratitude. Each day, I send a story with a nugget, an idea, and a practice — everything from losing your temper, to finding small happiness, to practicing meditation. The program is here; or just enjoy the essay below as a
- [The Upside of Being Busy](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/12/the-upside-of-being-busy/) - Being busy – being full, having a lot to do, filling your calendar to the brim — can be overwhelming, tiring, exhausting. Sometimes we're busy for busy's sake. And answering "busy" to how have you been is, well, annoying. But sometimes there's an upside to being busy. When you've got a handful of projects to
- [How Do You Stay Healthy In A World Pressing Us To Be Hyper-Connected?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/02/sometimes-i-scream-at-trains-underground/) - There are secret spaces inside of any city. In Brooklyn, the underground subway is noisy, chaotic, and dirty. I wear gloves to avoid germs, and I try not to touch anything if I can try. Loud advertisements are ripped and edited almost immediately after they are posted; teenagers often color in the eyeballs with red
- [Is Making A Blog Really Worthwhile?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/02/is-making-a-blog-really-worthwhile/) - It’s hard to understand why so many people are spending so much time investing in making “free content” when there are so many other things to do in building a business. Have you ever made a product and wondered why it didn’t go anywhere, or feel like you’re spinning your wheels at your company throwing
- [The Creative Self: Why The Habit of Making is Essential](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/10/the-creative-self-why-the-habit-of-making-is-essential/) - We don't know if what we make will be any good. Whether or not it's good is not the reason we begin. We begin because we must. We practice because creativity is a practice. Showing up for yourself is a skill you must practice again and again and again, more than anything else you'll ever
- [Missing A Day](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/missing-a-day/) - I woke up with a start at 11:30pm on Saturday night. I didn't post anything today! I had forgotten to post: so many things swept up to take hold of the day. New York got a blizzard with 22 inches of snow. Alex and I hiked through it to take a 16-hour weekend class on birthing,
- [Focus On What You Can Do](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/08/do-what-you-can-do/) - Being a new mom is suddenly, urgently grounding. It's hard to leave the house because, well, there's a baby right there. He needs me. Unless I get a babysitter, daycare, or my husband is home, I'm here, and it's me and the baby. This makes so many things infinitely harder. Leaving the house? That's pretty
- [October Monthly Writing Group: Routine](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/10/october-monthly-writing-group-routine/) - Last week I posed a question in a few writing groups I’m in: would a monthly writing theme be helpful to you as a writer? Do you want to write about a topic, a subject, or an idea together? The answer was a resounding yes. A monthly framework to write: join me for a new theme,
- [The Importance of Having A Routine](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/10/routine/) - Every night, after a day’s worth of pumping milk for my baby, my husband takes the pump from my hands and washes it out in the sink with the special brush. He shakes it dry, clean, ready for the next day. He says it’s one of the ways he can help with this job that
- [Don't Use The Full Hour](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/10/dont-use-the-full-hour/) - Most of our default settings look to the top of the clock to start anything. Meetings go for an hour. We block off time for our commitments in hour-long chunks. Even exercise gets its own hour, even if we actually only do 10 minutes of it. If you think of time in hour-long chunks, you
- [Change It Up](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/10/change-it-up/) - If you're not getting the results you want, try something new. If the way you're currently working isn't getting the results you want, you either need to stay the course a little bit longer (see: The Dip, or "Follow One Course Until Successful"), or you need to try a new way of working. If the
- [Eliminate the Thinking](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/10/eliminate-the-thinking/) - One of my goals is to find a way to minimize the amount of thinking I have to do about any particular subject. My brain is really addicted to thinking. It's one of its favorite things to do. But there's a certain amount of useless thinking that happens about things that don't need as much
- [8 Essays on Routine, Pattern, and Habit Change](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/11/8-essays-on-routine-pattern-and-habit-change-the-october-monthly-round-up/) - October was focused on the idea of Routine: what is it, how does it show up (or not show up) in your life, and when is it useful? From re-thinking what you spend your time thinking about, to parsing out time differently, to changing up your behaviors in an experimental fashion, it was a good month
- [January Writing Theme: Discernment](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/01/december-writing-theme-discernment/) - Each month I share a monthly writing prompt for you to reflect on, write about, and discuss. I’ll be writing a lot on this theme, and I invite you to join me in writing by linking your blog in the comments below or following the hashtag #mowriting on Twitter or Instagram. Discernment: What is it?
- [How to publish to both Medium and Wordpress at the same time.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/03/medium-cross-posting-test-wordpress/) - This was meant to be a private test of the Medium-to-Wordpress Plugin. But I blasted everyone with this blog post, instead. I've since updated it to explain what to do (and what not to do). Enjoy learning about how to do it!
- [The 20 Mile March](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/07/20-mile-march/) - What does it take to be great? In the book Good to Great, Jim Collins and his team of researchers study how some companies rise to greatness and uncover a key strategy: the 20 Mile March. They asked the question, "Why do some companies thrive in uncertainty, even chaos, and others do not?" They analyzed companies that
- [Social Media Summer Sabbatical](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/07/social-media-sabbatical/) - I'm taking a short break from social media this summer (from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram). I'm on pause through the month of July and already enjoying it immensely. My plan is to take a social media sabbatical for a month. Why I decided to do it: I've collected a bad habit of reading and scrolling—the
- [NAME IT: The Handy Cheat-Sheet For How to Deal with Feelings.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/12/feeling/) - Feelings, emotions, troubles and woes: no one is immune, despite the shiny glory of the internet and our addictions to various social-media outlets. I have a handy trick that I've used with a lot of success over the past couple of years each time I get overwhelmed, scared, afraid, worried, or wondering what to do a
- [Keep Writing.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/01/just-keep-writing/) - I've had a few people ask me about writing habits, what compels me to write, and how to keep the habit. A couple of thoughts: Don't worry about what it looks like, or how much of it you're doing. Don't worry about who's reading it, or what they're saying, or whether or not anyone's reading
- [Are You Over Thinking?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/03/are-you-over-thinking/) - Sometimes the answer is just doing it. Not thinking about doing it. Not writing about doing it. Not talking about doing it. And not waiting on it, or giving it more time. Anticipation can be deadly.
- [Are You A Watcher Or A Judger?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/04/observation-versus-judgment/) - A few weeks ago, I was teaching some of Spring's early-season open water courses down at Aquatic Park near Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco. A group of new swimmers stood, shivering, outside of the water while the coaches and I explained the process of getting acclimated to cold water temperatures and critical things to know
- [Bravery](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/04/bravery/) - Bravery. Bravery is showing up. Bravery is saying what you believe in. Out loud. To the people who need to hear it. Even if that person is you. It's having honest communication with your self, your teams, your communities. Bravery is saying no when you know you need to. It's saying no to the wrong things so
- [Are You Too In Love With A Dream to Make It Real?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/05/dreams-to-reality/) - Where does your mind go when you daydream? That big dream, that thing in your mind--the really big one. Yes, that one. What's your big, scary, hairy, crazy, totally unrealistic dream? The one you wish for fervently and find yourself thinking about on and off while wandering? Have you thought about making it real? Making it
- [Words to Fill Your Mind: The Power of a Mantra](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/03/mantra-power/) - The words that fill our minds... We all have words that we cycle on repeat in our minds—from worries about being late to songs we sing or words we repeat. Don't be late, don't be late, don't be late, we repeat to ourselves as we rush from subway to office to meeting to appointment. Gotta finish, gotta finish, gotta
- [Have You Ever Saved Someone's Life?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/07/have-you-ever-saved-someones-life/) - In high school I worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor. I had a few close encounters — just a few feet from me, below my line of sight, a 6-year old began to drown in four feet of water. Her toes barely skimmed the floor of the pool, and her arms fluttered up and
- [No Excuses: How to Stop Bullshitting Yourself and up your Mental Game](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/05/stop-excuses-stop-bullshitting-yourself/) - I broke my foot two weeks before the national meet and didn’t know whether or not I’d be able to swim. My coach taught me wisdom that killed any excuses.
- [The Masks We Wear to Hide Who We Are](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/11/the-masks-we-wear-to-hide-who-we-are/) - We all wear masks from time to time: in our words, our habits, and our practices. We have an arsenal of crutches and shortcuts that slowly but surely hide who we are. They are things that prop us up and help us hide. We hide from our feelings and our desires. We hide from who
- [Your Job is to Create](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/12/create/) - Your job is to create something in this world. With your human hands, your brain, your vision, your dreams, your desires. Make something. Make something with your mind, with your hands, with your heart. Put ingredients together and craft a batch of bread. Fold paper origami cranes. Make ideas come to life through words and
- [Why Writing is an Act of Bravery: A Letter to Writers](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/02/darkness-and-light-why-writing-is-an-act-of-bravery/) - “Only when we’re brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our life.” — Brene Brown Writing is an act of bravery. Each year, when I teach our writing workshops, I get to work with a small group of twenty-some writers, thinkers, and creatives. Inevitably, the process gets difficult in weeks
- [Finding the Little Bliss(es): This Is It](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/03/finding-the-little-blisses-this-is-it/) - Where is happiness? Where do you find it? The $7 coffee pot we bought the day we moved in together–because we knew that functioning properly as a team might require adequate dosages of caffeine in our morning routines. Stretching my toes against the curb while waiting for the light to change. High-fiving the blinking walk
- [Creating Your Own Weekly Review](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/04/potential/) - Living up to your potential sounds pretty fancy. It's something we all want, right? Live up to your potential. Maximize your potential. Be all that you can be. But how, exactly, do you do it? How does an intangible life objective become manifest into your daily routine? For Robert Cooper, author of The Other 90%: How
- [Making Space: Holding the Container Open, Empty, and Ready](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/09/making-space-holding-the-container-open-empty-and-ready/) - Cleaning out sometimes feels a bit like a death. Whenever I pack up bags to give away, it feels as though I'm going through old remnants of my past self, closets of things that represent who I used to be, and parting ways. Lately I've been cleaning out everything: getting rid of extra toiletries, clothes,
- [The Power of Saying Things Out Loud](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/04/the-power-of-saying-things-out-loud/) - The power of saying what you want out loud continues to astound me. It was January 1, this year. I was setting goals. I outlined what I wanted to do this quarter — take singing lessons, finish the first draft of my book, a few more things. Being in New York has been challenging at
- [The Profound Habit of Following Your Own Advice](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/05/saying-vs-doing/) - Wisdom is nothing more profound than an ability to follow your own advice. — Sam Harris. I struggle with writing essays that sound too much like advice, because I know inevitably as soon as I tell you the ten tricks for getting into bed early, I’ll suffer bouts of insomnia, wake up at odd hours,
- [Take Up Space](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/09/take-up-space/) - Take up space. Take up space with your body. With your gestures, with your height, with your size. If you're petite, take up space. If you're tall, take up space. Fill the room with the weight of your body, and then expand again with the weight of your soul. Take up space with your voice.
- [An Answer For Everything](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/01/an-answer-for-everything/) - There's an answer for everything. Every choice, every decision, every reason for being. When you feel the impulse to dance, or wiggle, or scream, or wring your hands in frustration. When you think you don't want to go to a meeting, when you hate getting on the subway, when you want to quit working with
- [How Will You Measure Your Life? The Art of Managing Yourself](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/04/the-art-of-managing-yourself-and-life/) - This morning I was fortunate enough to wake up at 5:06am, an hour before my baby wakes up, and I had a rare hour to myself to read, write, and meditate. I picked up an HBR series called “On Managing Yourself” and meandered through Clayton Christensen’s essay, “How Will You Measure Your Life?” These are some of
- [Why I'm Not Writing As Frequently](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/07/why-im-not-writing-as-frequently/) - I'm not writing as much as I'd like. Part of it is intentional – I joined a startup a few months ago, and I made a commitment to myself that I'd focus on my new job and keep my energy streamlined, so I wouldn't get burned out. I did that. But then, things got a little
- [Let's Start With Shitty First Drafts](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/06/lets-start-with-shitty-first-drafts/) - What do you do to stay creative? I've been looking for something new to do this summer, a way to have fun learning again, and I think I found it. At least for right now. I’ve been in New York for almost two years now — surprises me how fast time passes. Yet I still
- [Let's Go For A Walk and Talk: Experiments in a Creative Series](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/01/lets-go-for-a-walk-and-talk-experiments-in-a-creative-series/) - "Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking ... is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of
- [Words for Walking: What Kind Are You?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/02/words-for-walking/) - What's one thing that almost every one of us have in common? The ability to walk, wander, and be bipedal; we are a species that has, historically, spent most of our time on our feet. In my Walk + Talk adventures in San Francisco this past year, I've been reading literature on the importance of
- [Little Quips on This Not-So-Little Pregnancy](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/little-quips-on-this-not-so-little-pregnancy/) - This is post #5 in my month-long writing challenge. Join me here. I find pregnancy to be quite weird. My body has taken over. It’s running a long-embedded script I didn’t know I had inside of me. I've taken to writing short bits on twitter under the hashtag #pregrealities. Something about Twitter makes me feel like
- [He Chose You](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/he-chose-you/) - Some mornings I wake up around 4 or 5, either because I have to pee, or because the baby is kicking me. I have been having a hard time falling back asleep after I wake up, so I started going to morning yoga early in the day. Figured I might as well calm my mind and
- [How I Make My Morning Routine Work For Me](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/05/how-i-make-my-morning-routine-work-for-me/) - I struggle to do a morning routine. In my head, my morning routine is perfect: twenty minutes of yoga, twenty minutes of writing, twenty minutes of meditation before I start the day. There's a steaming cup of tea, a sunny window, a book if I'm feeling leisurely. This is all in my dream. In my
- [Swimming Taught Me This: Early Morning Reflections](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/02/swimming-taught-me-this/) - I've taken a four-month break from swimming; launching a project, traveling, and other interests have put my swimming adventures on the back burner recently. For several reasons: A) I'm not super-human, and therefore, B) I can't do everything at once. Yet I'm getting the itch, again, and feeling the need to be swimming. The glorious (albeit strange)
- [Loving Yourself](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/loving-yourself/) - A friend of mine is having a bit of a rough time right now and I sent her a note to check in. How's it going, how are you feeling? One of the ways we exist for each other is to confirm and mirror experience. When we notice a friend or a colleague struggling, we can
- [Less is more, imperfect is perfect, and done is done: 17 tips, tricks & habits I use for writing, creation + business-building (or any creative pursuit).](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/05/less-more-done/) - What's better than perfect? Done is better than perfect. Part of the beauty of writing, asking, and making projects is actually doing them. The best way out of something is often through it. Getting it done is where the art is. Seth Godin says “ship.” I say “do.” It means the same thing. Make it
- [Everyone starts somewhere.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/06/everyone-starts-somewhere/) - Even the master yogi took a first class. To become anything, you have to begin. Start somewhere, take a tiny step. Something is better than nothing. Everyone starts somewhere.
- [Winter workshop: cultivating gratitude, opening to grace. Begins December 1. Join us.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/11/winter-workshop-gratitude-grace/) - Crack. That moment, when your heart swells in open with thanks. When a stranger sends you a smile and a whisper. The unexpected brush of a hand against yours. The warmth of the subway air after a walk through frozen city streets. A free coffee from the barista. When a taxi driver waves you forward and
- [Packing light: how we traveled for 3 weeks across Europe (and got on stage!) with only small backpacks.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/08/packing-light-how-we-traveled-for-3-weeks-across-europe-and-got-on-stage-with-only-small-backpacks/) - If there's one thing I can't stand, it's carrying an over-packed wheely suitcase through crowded subways and city streets up four flights of stairs after a long day of traveling. Between being cramped in an overnight flight across the Atlantic, negotiating the limited quarters of overhead bin space, and standing sleepy-eyed at the baggage claim carousel, I'm shaking
- [Why quitting is perfectly okay.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/11/quitting/) - It’s always the same story for me: I start a project, a class, an idea, or a story. I eagerly rush in, align my pencils, lay out my notebooks, and make delirious plans in my calendar. That first day, ideas and dreams pour out of me. Then four days pass. I waver, tired. My calendar
- [Reading: Creativity, Talent + Marissa Mayer. Also: Urban Revival and Adults Making New Friends](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/07/reading-2012-07/) - What I'm reading: Creativity, Start-ups, Marissa Mayer and how adults make friends later in life (do they?)
- [The best of the blog: behind the scenes on organization, archives, and new reading collections for your weekend.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/11/organization-archives-best/) - What does 250 blog posts look like? A look back at the archives and the best bits from three years of blogging.
- [Start Writing: A New Free Mini-Course](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/start-writing-a-new-free-mini-course/) - This month, in the spirit of writing and getting our butts back into our chairs and writing more, I made a free mini writing course for anyone to join.I've made a number of free mini-courses before, and I always love making them. In order to participate, sign up here and take the challenge to write
- [3 Writing Tools To Draft, Edit, and Publish Your Work](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/writing-tools-to-draft-publish-and-edit-work/) - It Doesn't Matter How You Do It I should title this post "how to write every day" or "what tools I use to write every day" because the questions I get over and over again from so many different people are variations of the same questions: "How do you start a daily writing habit?" And:
- [How to Give (and Get) Great Feedback On Your Writing](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/how-to-give-and-get-great-feedback-on-your-writing/) - A lot of people have asked me about how to get feedback on their essays. How do they publish it? Who should they ask? And why do they cringe and worry so much about whether or not people will be kind and say good things (or terrible things) about their essays? Part of the fear
- [Ten Ways to Use Storytelling to Improve Your Ability to Connect and Communicate](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/02/ten-ways-to-use-storytelling-to-improve-your-ability-to-connect-and-communicate/) - Humans are born storytellers. The way we tell and share our stories about who we are, what we do, and what we want. This, in turn, affects who sees us, hears about us, and whether or not the right people connect with us. When you want to learn how to describe yourself or your business,
- [I Can't Sit Still, But When I Write,—](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/i-cant-sit-still-but-when-i-write/) - I can't sit still, but when I write, When I write, I lose track of time, and space. The numbers on the clock rotate and I fall out of the month, outside of the place, out the person. Sometimes I lose an entire day, lost in ten thousand words of a story, one word at a
- [How to Link Your Wordpress Website To Also Publish on Medium](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/03/link-wordpress-publish-medium-integration/) - You can publish once through Wordpress and automatically create a post in Medium. Genius. Earlier I blasted everyone on my RSS feed with a crazy post of a lot of type headers. The email, "Medium cross-posting test from WordPress!" was meant to be a test post of publishing to both platforms. It worked... way too well.
- [Today! Get The Writer's Workshop as Part of The Writer's Bundle for $99](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/04/writers-workshop-writers-bundle-2017/) - If you're a writer, or your goals include getting paid to write, publishing a book, or developing your blogging, listen up. This week I'm part of a BIG thing you'll want to know about and it's called The Writer's Bundle. Every year, The Write Life puts together an amazing package of resources for writers. This
- [The One-Page "Career Cheat Sheet" — Free Download](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/11/the-one-page-career-cheat-sheet/) - Do you like your job? Do you like what you do? I've spent time with a wide range of folks - people in start-ups, people in recently established businesses, people in small companies, and people in large companies. This question comes up a lot, yet you can't seem to figure out whether or not to
- [The 9-to-5 Doesn't Always Make Sense. How I Work: Discipline. Differences. Structures. Boundaries. Freedom.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/01/how-i-work/) - Sometimes my Grandpa says I work too hard. I try to tell him that my work is not the same as work used to be. I work late. I work early. I take breaks in the middle of the day. He points to the clock. It’s 6’o’clock, he says, wobbling over his cane and tapping
- [Summer Reading List](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/07/summer-reading-list/) - There's not much I like more than curling up with a good book and being swept away into a story or deep into a new set of ideas. This year, I'm tracking everything I read on my reading list, and making sure that half the list is made up of books by women. Now, midway
- [Suffering from Burnout? How to Know When to Rest or Push](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/07/rest-push-burnout/) - Does your life plan account for enough rest? How do you know when you should push, and when you're in burnout and deeply in need of a break? Here's how to determine the difference.
- [The Marketing Seminar](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/07/the-marketing-seminar/) - I don't often stop to exclaim loudly how much I like something – but I need to stop and share how much I love a course that I'm currently taking. I'm in the middle of taking a 100-day marketing seminar taught by Seth Godin, one of the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame inductees and one
- [One-way ticket to Tucson ...](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/07/one-way-ticket-to-tucson/) - I just booked one ticket (of two, I'll be back soon - just not sure when) to Tucson. I'm headed out of town for a bit to be with my Grandparents. While I talk a lot about things past (that I've already dealt with), I struggle to talk about current events - things happening right
- [Want to Take My Writer's Workshop For Free? I'm Looking For an Amazing Proofreader](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2017/03/looking-proofreader-reviewer-take-writers-workshop/) - This Spring, I'm working my way through the Writer's Workshop and giving the course a facelift. I can't believe it's already been four years since we launched the first round of the course. (In fact, some nostalgic trivia: I still know the names and faces of each of the people in the course and love
- [Upcoming 2017 Monthly Writing Themes](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/12/upcoming-2017-monthly-writing-themes/) - December is a time for rest and renewal. I'll be taking the holiday time to write nearly exclusively on my book and focus on the Mastermind group I've been working with since September. Here are the monthly writing themes for the upcoming new year, if you're curious: January 2017: Discernment February 2017: Perspective March 2017:
- [Sweet Discomfort](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/11/sweet-discomfort/) - The edge of comfort begins to feel mighty uncomfortable. An extended stretch in yoga class, a twist that goes a bit further than you're used to, a run that tacks on an extra mile that your body hasn't done before. When you stretch into your areas of growth, you reach a place of discomfort. My
- [Default to Finish](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/10/default-to-finish/) - Pssst! Quick note: I'll be teaching a live-stream class on November 9th all about how to plan your week and set up your schedule. Go register in advance for the seminar here. Do you finish what you start? Let's be honest: we're pretty terrible, as humans, at estimating time. How long something will take, how much work
- [The Pang (The Edge of Knowing)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/09/the-pang-the-edge-of-knowing/) - I’ve moved a number of times in my life. Every time I go through the same dance: sorting, sifting, culling, deciding what to toss and what to keep. Schlepping many mountains of stuff across airplanes makes you intentional about what you keep, and what you don’t. Is this worth the weight of lugging it through
- [Learn to Draw, Learn to Code: A Few New Courses + Live Workshops](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/07/learn-to-draw-learn-to-code-a-few-new-courses-live-workshops/) - There are a few wonderful opportunities coming up if you're interested in learning visual thinking, drawing, or programming. Think Clearly: Bootcamp July 30th in London; plus more dates/cities. Learn how to represent yourself on paper, articulate your ideas in visual sketches, and master a pen and paper. Taught by my friend and co-mentor Mathias Jakobsen
- [A Few Glimpses of Life With A Newborn](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/07/a-few-glimpses-of-life-with-a-newborn/) - Some thoughts on life with a newborn: He has an uncanny knack for knowing just when I’m about to even think about doing something (showering, writing, eating with two hands, heck, even just going to the bathroom) — and deciding that NOW he is hungry, NOW he needs attention, NOW he must be bounced for
- [Summertime Fiction Reading Recommendations](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/06/summertime-fiction-reading-recommendations/) - In my last post on great book reads, I asked you all for your fiction recommendations and I got a ton of great ideas I thought I'd compile and share here. As it gets hot outside (at least for those of us in the Western Hemisphere), and especially for those of us (ahem, me), who are nursing and bringing
- [Spring 2016 Reading List: Fiction, Feminism, and Rethinking Business](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/05/spring-2016-reading-list-fiction-feminism-and-rethinking-business/) - This Spring Reading List is brought to you by: excellent fiction, the powers of feminism, rethinking business priorities (can we say sleep, anyone?), and a biting look at what happens when a 50-something Newsweek editor takes on a new job at a 20-something startup. ** Some favorites in narrative and fiction** The Girl on the Train —
- [Going to the Coffee Shop](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/02/going-to-the-coffee-shop/) - In the morning, I love going to the coffee shop. Call it a force of habit, a craving, an addiction — it’s hard for me not to start my day without popping into our corner store. Recently, however, I’ve been limiting my caffeine intake (due to pregnancy and headaches) and I was stuck: do I
- [When A Client Says No — Should You Do An Exit Interview?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/when-a-client-says-no-should-you-do-an-exit-interview/) - A friend of mine is a successful independent business owner with high-end corporate clients. After a few deals didn't close — and she didn't feel badly about the deals not going through — she wondered: Should I follow up and ask them for feedback about why they went with another service? Small business reality: you're always
- [Should You Call A Pregnant Woman Fat?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/should-you-call-a-pregnant-woman-fat/) - I snorted when a book I was reading admonished against telling a pregnant woman she was “fat.” Yes, of course. That's probably a bad call. Instead, however, it recommended that rather than the word "fat," you kindly refer to the additional weight gain as “Maternal Storage Tissue.” Because yes, that’s what every woman wants to hear.
- [Life is Change](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/life-is-change/) - One detail of pregnancy that's eye-opening is how fast everything changes. Week over week, there are new developments, changes, symptoms, changes, and side-effects. A few weeks ago, the little guy could hear us for the first time. There were kicks. There still are kicks (and punches!). His neuro-motor functioning is changing. He's growing so fast inside
- [Record It While It's Happening: Rachel Cusk on Emotions, Mamahood, and Becoming a Parent](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/record-it-while-its-happening-rachel-cusk-on-emotions-mamahood-and-becoming-a-parent/) - Even though dragging myself out of bed and dealing with morning sickness does not make it fun to keep up with my writing habit, I also know that these feelings are fleeting. They won't last forever, and I want to capture them while they're here, so I can remember what it's like. I have no idea
- [I Don't Want To Be Good At This](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/i-dont-want-to-be-good-at-this/) - Sometimes we get really good at things in life that we have no interest in being good at. Today began as some of the less fun pregnancy days have begun — I woke up at 3am, my stomach hurting, my mouth dry, thirsty, but scared to drink water — afraid that if I drank water, I'd
- [The Best Pregnancy Things (Clothes, Tools, Tips) I've Found So Far](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/the-best-pregnancy-things-clothes-tools-tips-ive-found-so-far/) - I knew I had to dig in and actually buy some maternity pants when I could no longer hike my yoga pants up any higher. With my old pants, I either gave myself significant camel toe (not attractive), or I ended up with a thick elastic imprint around my waist (not comfortable), or both. More
- [What Your Job Is Not](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/03/what-your-job-is-not/) - What is your job? Or, more importantly, what is your job not? One evening, late on a Friday night, I asked myself what I was accomplishing, and what I was achieving. Who am I working for? What's the bigger picture? How am I making this happen? Sometimes, to figure out what to do, you have
- [The Only Constant is Change](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/10/better/) - "You don’t get better by staying the same." You get better by doing something different. By trying new things. By pushing out of your comfort zone. You don’t become the best by doing what everyone else is doing. You do it better. You think of completely new things and you try them anyways. You keep
- [Do Something](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/12/do-something/) - I'm sitting on an airplane, staring out the window, reflecting on the year past and how quickly it seems to have gone by, and thinking about all the adventures I've been on. December is a time of pause: we can stop and look back, and, if we really do our diligence, analyze how we can
- [2011 review: 28 in fifty-two notes: a year's worth of writing, lessons, and people](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/10/28-in-52-notes/) - Another year, another day, another second. Each moment we get a little older, and hopefully a little bit wiser. Yesterday I turned 28, and I can hardly believe it. I'm nearly done with my twenties: somehow it feels like I should be getting on with my life, setting an example, and doing stuff worth doing.
- [The Stories of Humanity and the Power of Connection: #WDS 2012 Recap (Day 1)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/07/wds2012-1/) - What does it mean to be human? Humanity is what you say to someone when you think no one’s watching. It's what you do when you're all by yourself. Humanity is what you feel when you watch another person suffering, and decide to either do nothing, or do something. Humanity is the ability to reach out and hug someone. Humanity is being grateful for your family, your friends, and your ability to do something in this world. Humanity is the ability to trust, the ability to connect, the ability to touch. To be human means we can move, create, love, share, and laugh. Humanity—the essential element or essence of being human is more than what you do. It’s who you are, and who you are able to be together. It is the ability for one thousand people to sing--as a group--the entirety of "Don't Stop Believing," and fill a theater with our voices.
- [Craft beautiful things. Make art. Move every day. Stop driving. Practice gratitude and joy. 13 things to carry with me from 2013.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/12/13-things/) - It's here. The world spun around the sun again, and we're buried in the darkness of winter. Sun rises late, lazy, making my head ache in the morning while rising. We look back. We reflect on the year past, we look at the year ahead, we wonder how so much changed and yet all stayed
- [2011 review: Costa Rica, Reflections, and Entrepreneurs](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/12/costa-rica/) - I’d like to interrupt the middle of winter for a short escape to the pure life: la pura vida, costa rica. This past week I spent living in Costa Rica with a group of six women for an entrepreneur’s retreat. For many people, particularly small-business owners or entrepreneurs, working from home or abroad is a
- [2010 defining moment: running.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/2010-in-review-defining-moment-running/) - I run. This year, I ran a lot. Ran for sheer joy, out of exhaustion, to escape my work life, to find new places, to learn, and to start or end my day. I ran to explore, to test my capabilities, to challenge my mind, and most often, just to be. To simply be. The
- [Reinvention Isn't Easy, But It Is Necessary: 22 Thoughts from Julien Smith](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/11/reminders/) - It’s November, the season of gratitude--one of my favorite seasons. In the spirit of gratefulness, thanks, and learning, I'll be giving away prizes with almost every single post all throughout November. Some of the things I have to give away include a copy of Chris Brogan and Julien Smith’s new book, “The Impact Equation,” copies
- [Who We Are: A Profile of Readership of This Blog. (And Four Book Winners!)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/10/who-we-are/) - You and me, we're the magic of the internet. Last week I sent out a survey to readers to get a better sense of this community that we're growing here. We had nearly 200 responses to the survey, and the results are in -- Here's what we look like: GENDER: Readers are about two thirds
- [Desire, Feelings, and Inner Softness: Why Is It So Hard To Feel Good? The Desire Map, by Danielle LaPorte](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/12/desire/) - 1. A confession. The first time I picked up my copy of Danielle LaPorte’s Desire Map I could hardly finish it. I watched as social posts flickered in my online vision, people talking about its brilliance and I wondered why I couldn’t handle it. Personally, I wanted to throw it against the wall. It took
- [Starting A New Life](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2016/01/starting-a-new-life/) - It's been hard to get a new post up every week, for two big reasons: first, working at a startup is a big mountain of a challenge, and second — more excitedly! — I'm now just about five months pregnant, so all my free time (and body energy) is devoted to building a new person from scratch.
- [Learning How to Meditate](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/09/learning-how-to-meditate/) - I finally achieved the badge for meditating three days in a row on the app I’m using to meditate. To be clear, I didn’t know that this even existed. It took me 8 months to figure THAT out — or, depending on how you count, it took me 31 years to figure out how to sit still.
- [15 Quotes on Meditation and Mindfulness From Jon Kabat-Zinn](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/08/15-quotes-on-meditation-and-mindfulness-from-jon-kabat-zinn/) - I have a small (but growing) stack of wisdom books on my desk that speak to the human experience. One of them is Jon Kabat-Zinn's book "Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life." I've highlighted and re-highlighted both my digital and print copies. It's simple, yet profound. You are here "When it
- [What Are The Best Books On Life And Meaning You Should Have A Copy Of?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/08/what-are-the-best-books-on-life-and-meaning-you-should-have-a-copy-of/) - On my desk, there are a few stacks of books that surpass the kindle test. While I am a huge believer in the beauty of physical books, I also put an equal amount on my tablet. But beyond the bookshelves and the kindle — among the thousands of books my husband and I read — there are a few
- [What To Do When You See Someone Being Harassed](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/08/what-to-do-when-you-see-someone-being-harassed/) - It was early evening, just after the sun set, around 7 PM on Fall night in Brooklyn. My husband and I were walking through the crowds outside of Atlantic Terminal. I saw a young woman, walking alone, get approached by a man with a clipboard. “Heyyy!” he said, “Do you know about …” The sound drifted off,
- [Why Are We So Afraid of Having These Conversations?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/08/why-are-we-so-afraid-of-having-these-conversations/) - A man jumped out from behind a subway pole at me while I was absorbed in my cell phone late this evening. I jumped, startled. He started to ask me about whether or not an F train was coming, and then, mid-sentence, said: "Wait, why did you jump? Why are you scared?" "Are you scared
- [Give Yourself A Chance To Get Good](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/08/give-yourself-a-chance-to-get-good/) - It can take a really long time to get good at something--and that's perfectly okay. Perhaps it's a good time to dedicate yourself to the art of learning, and not give up so soon.
- [Is It Too Late?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/08/it-is-never-too-late/) - "For what it’s worth, it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope
- [Staying Motivated](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/09/staying-motivated/) - How do you stay motivated? Motivation - the energy and power behind any project, task, or achievement - helps us stick to our goals, make progress during the hard times, and keep us moving forward. But motivation can be fleeting. When I find myself in bursts of activity (usually at the peak of my motivation
- [2010: one word](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/2010-in-review-one-word/) - 2010. This was … this was. This was, i say again to myself. This was a strange year. *** *** *** There is one thing, one big thing this year, and I am still at a loss for words. A loss for words. Not for lack of speaking, or explaining, or talking or walking or wondering
- [Habit change, solitude, and stillness](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2015/01/habit-change-solitude-and-stillness/) - January certainly went by in a hurry. I have quite a few things for you, and I'm just now sitting down to send you these notes. If you're interviewing at a new company, here are 12 questions to ask during your interview. How do you find stillness and solitude in a hyper-connected world? (Podcast) Want to make habit
- [When you’re tired, worn out, beleaguered, scared, underfed, miserable, alone: a reminder. #dosomething](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/05/do-something-poem/) - I don't care who you pretend you are. I don’t care so much who you pretend you are when you’re well fed, well dressed, well slept, put together, prepared, And so called ready… When the polish is fresh and the face newly painted, airbrushed layers covering freckles, pock-marked skin with storied layers hidden; the script locked
- [The problem with thinking too big... ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/03/big/) - "Dream big. Reach for the stars. The only limit is in your mind." How often do you hear these words? We're filled with the power of positive mantras in motivational texts, books, and seminars. The problem with expansive thinking, however, is that too big can be just as much of a problem. The problem of thinking
- [How do you talk about who you are?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/03/talking/) - Cue the scene. I'm standing in a big house party, feeling eerily like I'm in an episode of Animal House, red solo cups in hand, loud music, glittery females and dapper gentlemen draped over surfaces. My toes point inwards and my hips clench together a bit. My insides are crawling. Apparently my inner Extrovert refused to come
- [Are you letting the numbers deflate you?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/02/numbers/) - The thing about numbers is, we give them far too much power to make us feel bad. "Only" have 100 people reading your blog? That's like speaking to a jam-packed coffee shop or on stage at a live speaking event. Alexandra Franzen reframes the expectations we have around blogging (and online writing) and I think
- [When your ego starts yelling at you… remember this: ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2014/02/when-your-ego-starts-yelling-at-you-remember-this/) - Ever have those voices in your head, while you're working or trying something new? That ego. The voice that tells you, whispers softly, cruelly inside of your mind: "You aren't good enough. This wasn't very good. Why did you bother? You're not in shape enough. You should go to yoga class, but it's not going
- [Happy Holidays 2012!](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/12/happy-holidays-2012/) - Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and all the love and joy I can send your way over the holidays. Thanks for being here, for building such an amazing community, and for teaching me so many things over the past year. I've learned so much from each of you who write in, comment, and tell me stories
- [2013: Lessons to Take With Me](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/01/2013-lessons-to-take-with-me/) - Part two of my annual round-up. For part one, check out my annual review for 2012. The last year, or two, weren't easy--and full of lots of mistakes--but incredible and far better than the first half of my twenties. I've mused lately, in my 29th year, what this decade will add up to. What have I
- [Happy New Year & The Best of 2011](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/01/happy-new-year-the-best-of-2011/) - What a year. First, a huge thank you for everything and everyone wonderful from December: it was the surprise ending to an already-unforgettable year. I was blown away by the shout-out on Pro Blogger and the response to the recent Do Something: Slide Share presentation. (which reached 80,000 views!) WOW. I'm completely blown away! Based on the reviews and reactions, I
- [What have you done to take care of you?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/12/self-care/) - The line between happy and crazy is very thin. The distance between joy and depression is fragile. A short story. "What are you doing tonight?" He asked. "I think I'm going to write, do some yoga, drink some lemon tea, and try to head to bed early--I'm a bit tired." It had been a long day. Or
- [The Bali journey: in photographs.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/11/bali-photographs/) - I'm a little bit at a loss for words. I'm back from Bali, landing back in the USA after a flight pulled me 13 hours backwards in time, depositing me into the winter hemisphere. While I was gone, our city decorated the streets of Brooklyn with holiday lights, and folks have pulled out their hats
- [Invisible systems.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/04/invisible-systems/) - I'm staring at the giant salad box in front of me on the airplane, munching down on another pile of cheese and ham, trying to figure out if I'm even hungry. There's still piles of salad left, and I'm cramped in between the person next to me and the window, navigating my book and my
- [When I hold on too tight...](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/10/when-i-hold-on-too-tight/) - I've noticed that when I hold on to things, it doesn't mean that they get better. When I held on--and I held on so tight! --the writing didn't get better, the launch of my newsletter didn't get any better; it got longer. It almost disappeared into the abyss of doubts and worries, of perfections and neuroses; it
- [Who are you? (+ survey + free book giveaway!)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/10/who-are-you/) - The community is growing here! The community here is growing quite a bit, and it's exciting to meet many of the new faces becoming part of this tribe of readers. Long-time readers that have been here since the onset might see more and more faces pepper the comments; in addition, I get to work with
- [You are / whatever you say / you are. ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/10/what-you-say/) - How long does it take to discover who you really are? And are you waiting for permission to tell your story, or do you have the guts to shift your narrative alongside your shifting dreams? Why it takes so long for us to admit who we really are.
- [Losing my rib, rehabilitating my body, and doing my first triathlon.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/08/the-life-goals-checklist-and-a-personal-story-to-boot/) - This is the story of meeting an accomplishment. Achievement is one stepping stone in building career and self-confidence. Many people reiterate the importance of a "life goals" checklist - a list of things that you hope to do, by a certain time or year, in your lifetime. This summer I accomplished a huge life goal
- [Now Open: The Fall Writer's Workshop, Sept 16th--Oct 11th.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/09/fall-writers-workshop/) - Want to improve your writing? Want to join a community of talented creatives interested in improving your storytelling and writing skills? Maybe you're itching to hone your chops and get back into a learning setting again this Fall. For all the aspiring creatives and writers out there: join me as we gather together this Fall
- [Work in progress](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/02/work-in-progress/) - We are all a work in progress. Not every day is perfect, blissful, extraordinary, or filled only with the "happy" emotion. Everyone I know has down times, unhappy days, troughs of long, hard work, and problems they have or currently are working through. It's okay not to be okay. Give yourself permission to be right where
- [Start Writing | 2013 Writer's Workshops (A three-week digital course for writers)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/04/start-writing-spring-2013-writers-workshop-a-three-week-digital-course-for-writers/) - Imagine: a three-week course for writers to practice your craft, learn about writing tips and tactics, get direct feedback on your writing and meet other people in a small-group format. A way to enter the digital world. A place to get better at writing--and learn from others in direct conversation. An opportunity to learn about
- [Spring 2013 Writer's Workshop | FAQ ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/04/spring-2013-writers-workshop-faq/) - There has been such an incredible response to the writing course! Here are some of the main questions so far and feel free to reach out on twitter if you have any other questions. If you're thinking of joining the course, registration ends this week. I love the idea of a Writing Course! But who
- [Eliminate distractions.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/02/eliminate-distractions/) - The spaces where we do our work are important. What spaces are conducive to good work? Do you work from home, in an office, in an open studio, in a coffee shop? Where do you get your work done? Look around the space you're in, right now. What does it help you do? What behaviors
- [Work on One Thing At a Time.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/02/one-thing/) - I'll admit, I fail at this a lot. But each time I come back to this lesson, I'm reminded how powerful it is. Don't do ten things at once. Work on one thing at a time. Or two. But never more than two. In a well-known graph about productivity and multi-tasking (from a 1990's Harvard
- [Finish early.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/05/finish-early/) - Don't stay late. Go home early. Do less. Seriously, take most of the things off of your to do list. Here are some words to live by, when hiring and managing people: "I'm more impressed by the person who can get it done in 6 hours - and go home and rest - than the person who
- [Smile.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/02/smile/) - Smile. There is nothing more beautiful than a smile. The expression you wear on your face is priceless. There aren't too many things more powerful and contagious than your demeanor. I'm reading essays by Dale Carnegie this week, and his insights and ideas about the power of a smile are spot on: "Your smile is
- [Everything Changes.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/02/everything-changes/) - You are not a fixed entity. You are not exactly as you are. Things change. The greatest gift we all have is the ability to learn, to develop, and to grow. If you are not learning - you are obsolete. Seth Godin's book, Linchpin, speaks to this effect: become indispensible. Be more than ordinary -
- [What’s First?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/02/first/) - What will you do first? First things First, my dad always says. What is the first thing you did today? Check email? Work on the most important thing, or the least important thing? When you get to the end of the day, what do you regret not doing? Less means maybe only doing 1 thing
- [It Starts With Now](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/it-starts-with-now/) - The most paralyzing word in our language is "Later." Later. Later means "not now." Unfortunately, later means, possibly never at all. Start small. But more importantly, start now. Even if it's the smallest, tiniest effort - you've started. *** *** *** When I started doing "lessons from less," I didn't start with a big idea
- [Radio Interview: Musings on Design, Environment, Behavior and Sustainability](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2013/01/radio-interview/) - How do you build a sustainable life, what does psychology have to do with cities, and how do you wield the power of learning how to say both yes and no strategically? Did you design your own job? How do you balance a full-time job with all the side projects you want to do? What happens
- [THE START SOMETHING PROJECT: It's Time to Take Yourself—And Your Dreams—Seriously.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/06/start-something-project/) - It’s like I just woke up. And I realized: this is it. We only have one world. We only have one life. This IS your chance. This IS your life. What you are doing right now, today. Tomorrow. The day after that. What are you doing? That’s you. That’s what you’re doing. Do you like it? Are you ready
- [You Have Permission.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/06/permission/) - I'm planning my week, my day, and a couple of thoughts run through my head: I’ll try this. I’ll do this. Ooh, wouldn't this be exciting! I can't wait! And then the other thoughts, the safety traps, the counter mechanisms, the judgments, the space between what I want to do and what I’ve done so far.
- [Come Streak With Me: A Challenge](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/05/streak/) - Want to do something? The best time to start is right now. Break through the invisible rules in your head. Do it anyways. Join me in the "Streaker" challenge.
- [How Can I Be Better?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/05/how-can-i-be-better/) - How can I be better? Nearly every day, this is a question I struggle with. Today is impermanent, imperfect, temporary. We can always be better. What will you focus on? How can you get better? I write every week, almost every day, in an effort to become a better and better writer. Jack London, in his
- [The Start Something Project (How I Want to Help You Kick Start Your Next Project, Dream, or Experiment). ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/05/start-something-idea/) - What holds you back from taking action? I hear this all the time: I want to meet new people. I want to enjoy my job more. I want to start a blog. I want to be a better writer. I want to start a business. I want to come up with a vision plan for
- [The Importance of Story](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/04/the-importance-of-story/) - There are thousands of bad presentations. What makes a good presentation? Nancy Duarte looks at the importance of stories and narratives in our collective history, and how the use of storytelling can captivate audiences. In it's most simple structure, a story contains a likable hero, who encounters a roadblock, and overcomes the adversity to achieve a
- [Icons in History: San Francisco's Golden Gate](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/04/iconic-golden-gate/) - Editor's Note: This weekend, the main entry drive to the Golden Gate Bridge closes down for three days, and traffic in my home city is expected to be horrendous. As is the case with many things we encounter on a regular basis, I realized how much I take this bridge for granted – both in
- [When The Going Gets Tough...](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/02/when-the-going-gets-tough/) - Hiking through urban Taipei, Taiwan as part of a landscape project. You're probably heard the phrase before: When the going gets tough ... the tough get going. Sometimes, when the going gets tough, I want to head home, curl up in my favorite blankets, turn the lights down low and eat cookies and watch TV.
- [Homemade Lemonade](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/02/homemade-lemonade/) - ... When life gives you lemons ... At home, we have a lemon, lime, and an orange tree in our backyard, pressed up against the fence. During the big storms, my mom ties the trunk of the tree to the fence to prevent the weight of the fruit from falling the tree. The lemon tree
- [Are You Learning? ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/02/are-you-learning-post-it/) - I put together a series of a dozen or so challenges and questions that I ask myself and post up in my office and my home workspace. To see the rest in the series, check out the Post-It category.
- [Everybody Has Something](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/12/everybody-has-something/) - I've lived long enough--and talked to enough people--to know that everyone has something. Behind the exterior, behind the face, behind the brilliance or seeming-perfection, there are stories. People have lived through loss, hardship, trauma, and fear; they have scars that are visible and invisible; and despite all evidence to the contrary, most--if not all--people are dealing
- [Let's Stop "Working Harder." Priorities, Decisions, Strategy.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/10/working-harder/) - It's not about working harder. Or longer. Or more. It's not about competing to get less sleep. (This is stupid.) It's not (always) about staying up later to beat the competition. (I prefer to beat them and go to sleep early, isn't that an even better win?) It's not about finding ways to grind yourself to
- [Look, The Trees. ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/10/look-the-trees/) - "For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver." -- Martin Luther Sometimes while running, a single tree will stop and leave me breathless, unable to move. A tree. I love them so much, these windy, twisty
- [You Are Loved.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/10/you-are-loved/) - In the wake of the horrible bullying and the national headlines--from Matthew Shephard 14 years ago, to the Boy Scouts' recent denial of an Eagle Scout Honors to a brilliant young man because of his sexual orientation, to the sickening videos by Amanda Todd, the young victim of internet bullying who took her life this week--my
- [Prioritize action over fear. ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/10/action-v-fear/) - In the doing of things, mistakes will be made. But you are doing the things, and that is good. In the face of fear, you can wait or do nothing. You can also choose to act despite the fear. (And not doing something is actually doing something). Choose wisely.
- [Show up. ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/09/show-up/) - Show up. Every day, or as often as needs to be done. Figure out the schedule. Perhaps it's once a week. It's not about extremes. It's not about doing a magnanimous or extraordinary thing on one singular day, or in one moment. It's the accumulation of micro-actions. It's about consistency. It's about showing up, even
- [The Proust Questionnaire](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/08/the-proust-questionnaire/) - On wandering and lost conversations. Do you have a minute to wander? How about an hour to stop, pause, reflect, and think? Take notebook, some scratch paper, a word-document (if you're brave, and can trust yourself not to wander over to the vast glorious internet pages in the middle of a thought stream, then do
- ["To those I love." ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/08/to-those-i-love/) - This post is in memory of my lovely, beautiful grandmother whose memorial party I had the joy of attending this past weekend. I am blessed to be surrounded by curious, fascinating, lovely family who chatter, chirp, and move like I do. We gathered to celebrate of the life of an amazing woman--my mother's mother--who brought
- ["What I Do"](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/08/what-i-do/) - Option 1: Landscape Architect, Explorer What do I do? I never know how to answer this question. Do I start with swimming? Architecture? Writing? All of the people and things and quirks I love about San Francisco? My incessant love of traveling? I'm never sure how to answer or what people are really asking. I
- [100 Gratitudes](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/07/100-gratitudes/) - "Dwell on that which makes you happy, and you'll be happier. You are what you think." What are you grateful for? Here's a list of one hundred things that I'm grateful for today; there are thousands of things. Hugs Unexpected generosity Cities and the intricacies of urban fabric and invisible systems. My hands Thank you
- [World Domination in Tweets ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/07/world-domination-in-tweets/) - World domination, in 140 characters or less. A twitter-capture of the thought streams of the participants at WDS 2012.
- [The expectation: achievement dance](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/01/the-expectation-achievement-dance/) - "Achievement is rarely is in line with expectation; and if it is, dream bigger." Each time you cross the threshold and reach a goal; a goal set forth determinedly by your younger self, you may encounter both a sense of satisfaction and a sense of gnawing expectation for more, for greater. As your abilities expand
- [Turn upside down, look again: a philosophy of handstands.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2012/01/my-philosophy-on-handstands/) - How many times do you flip upside down and look at the world from a different perspective? Literally - how often do you turn upside down? Short of taking a thrill ride at an adventure-park, or bending over to pick up the trash, most people rarely turn upside down on a regular basis. The closest
- [2011 in photos](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/2011-in-photos/) - text blah blah [portfolio_slideshow]
- [$10 for a Financial Wizard – Buy this book. (And Other Money Lessons From Ramit Sethi)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/03/ramit-sethi/) - I get a lot of questions for people about money, finance, spending, saving, etc. I occasionally write posts on ways to save money, what it means to save for retirement, financing a car (for which I went through my own blunders) and setting up emergency savings plans. I write these from experience - and I
- [Why You're Not Getting There. (Clue: It's You, Not Them)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/06/arbitrary-barriers/) - Arbitrary Barriers. Do you know what these are? Arbitrary barriers are traps we set up - for ourselves, by ourselves - that preclude us from doing great work. The dialogue is pretty simple. It's usually an "if-then" statement, a wish to be fulfilled that can only happen after you do something else. This is what
- [A swift kick in the ass. (I'm here to tell you to work harder.)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/04/kick-in-the-ass/) - Yup, that's right. You heard me. It's time to work harder. Not just harder, better. We live in a world where people try to make us feel good about ourselves and our goals. We talk about our accomplishments and offer consolations to people who don't make it to glory ("oh, it's okay, at least you
- [Choosing and switching a college major](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/04/ask-sarah-choosing-or-switching-a-college-major/) - Hi Sarah, I'm a junior in college, and that essentially means that I'm supposed to have my life figured out, but I feel like that's not true at all! I am still undeclared in my major, although I've been focusing on economics and international studies during my first two years. I've been looking for jobs
- [20 lessons from starting a project, part two: launch week.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/09/launch-part-2/) - I’m breathing again, having just launched our website project this past week. Everything was set to go live early in the week – launch campaign emails, final website tweaks, coordination with the team, announcements to be sent, facebook posts, advance tweets. I woke up on Wednesday morning grinning from ear to ear – the first
- [The lessons you need most, learning the hard way, and big dreams: part 1](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/09/the-lessons-you-need-most-learning-the-hard-way-and-big-dreams-part-1/) - I'll be honest, My face hurts. It might be from the lack of sleep, or the fact that my face is currently crushed against a table in a coffeeshop, where I've inadvertendly placed my head down for a quick snooze, and now I'm covered in drool and blinking rapidly trying to regain a sense of
- [It starts with Gentle.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/lessons-from-less-5-it-starts-with-gentle-be-kind/) - Be kind to yourself. You are doing OK. There may be a hundred things running around in that brain of yours, but slow down long enough to take a break. My dove chocolate today said it nicely: It's okay not to do everything. Breathe. You won't do everything. You won't finish everything, your life will
- [Comparisons are ruthless.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/lessons-from-less-6-comparisons-are-ruthless/) - Yoga class. A practice in relaxing, in breathing, in being in the present. And yet, I find I'm doing it again - yes, I'm guilty! Do you ever compare yourself to the person next to you? It seems there will always be a better yogi. The teacher gently reminds the class that we're all perfectly
- [Un-finish 10 things](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/less-10/) - Don't finish everything. There are things that aren't worth doing. Delete them. That half-finished magazine? Recycle it. The book you're not that into? Don't read the rest of it. The clothes you keep meaning to fix? Don't fix them - give them away, donate, or get rid of them. Today, unfinish, throw away, or clean
- [It will never be as you expected.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/lessons-from-less-9-it-will-never-be-as-you-expected/) - My parents used to (nicely) remind me that life doesn't always go according to plan. Be plan-ful, they said, but also be mindful. Be willing to compromise, be open to change, and let yourself be spontaneous from time to time. I had lists and goals and ideas and was certain of the way the world
- [Cleaning is Cathartic.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/lessons-from-less-12-cleaning-is-cathartic/) - Throw stuff away. Give stuff away. Un-finish things. The process of reduction is fascinating. In food science, reduction is about simmering basic ingredients together and slowly eliminating water - until you're left with a rich, thick, wonderful sauce full of the taste and flavor. In life, reduction is about making the most out of what
- [Open Moments and Forgetting About Time](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/lessons-from-less-14-open-moments-and-forgetting-about-time/) - The more I have to do, the more stuff I have, the more I feel anxious about time. I check the clock, the analog clock I keep to plan things, I mark up my calendars, and I rush-rush-RUSH to get things done. Letting go means things go slower, differently. Doing Less means being okay with
- [Today or tomorrow?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/12/today-or-tomorrow/) - The future isn't written yet.
- [What if...](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/11/what-if/) - What if ... Everyone is watching? ... No one is watching? ... You do it anyways? ... You don’t get enough sleep? What if ... The worst happens? ... The best happens? What if ... ...You’re wasting your opportunity? ...You can’t put it off until tomorrow, because you don’t get another tomorrow? What if ... ...
- [Does the end matter?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/0000/00/does-the-end-matter/) - I'm scribbling notes in a lecture, listening to a senior executive talk about his career, and this sentiment captured me. It's not about where you end up. Does it even matter? Focus instead on the strategies, on the process, on the doing. The end is just another moment along the way.
- [The beauty of adversity.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/10/the-beauty-of-adversity/) - Despite knowing that adversity makes us better; that challenge polishes our edges; that experience broadens our knowledge, we still have a fear of the unknown, of the hard, of the difficult. Instead of fearing uncertainty, embrace it. When faced with adversity, encourage it. Test your mettle. Discover who you are. You might be surprised.
- [Something worth talking about](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/10/something-worth-talking-about/) - “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” - Helen Keller There aren't very many people in this world who do things worth talking about. Watching the telly on a Sunday night? Not so interesting. Gossiping, checking email, doing the same old thing? Not big news. Media coverage trends towards the negative, the unexpected, the
- [Learn by doing](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/10/learn-by-doing/) - You can't figure everything by thinking, supposing or guessing. Sometimes you have to take action. Sometimes you just have to do it - and figure it out along the way.
- [What would you do if you knew you could not fail? ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/09/what-would-you-do-if-you-knew-you-could-not-fail/)
- [What do you want?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/10/what-do-you-want/) - This is one of my favorite questions. I ask it all the time. Ask it before you write an email, before you go to lunch, before you start your day. Ask it of yourself, ask it of your friends, ask it at meetings. What do you want? You may want a new computer, a pay
- [The big design problem? Designing your life.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/10/the-big-design-problem-designing-your-life/) - I'm deep in the throes of reading two books by one of my favorite authors. Before I tell you who it is, I want to include an excerpt from one of the books: "I'm a welter of insecurities. I'm insecure about not understanding what the next person does, about not being as smart os the
- [What's worse?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/10/whats-worse/) - Disappointing others? Or disappointing yourself?
- [Humility and confidence: do you have both?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/07/humility-and-confidence-do-you-have-both/) - "Confidence without humility is Arrogance. Humility without confidence is self-deprecation." This sketch came out of an unplanned, brilliant conversation with a good friend of mine, Jeff Riddle of The GiveGive. After several iterations through my notebooks (and lots of cross-outs, and a few laughs over coffee), Jeff pointed out that it's not an either-or, but
- [Feedback is O.K.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/09/feedback-is-o-k/) - One of the most important things we get from this world is feedback. Information about how we're doing. What people like, and don't like. How to make things better. As a kid, falling on the ground, scratching your knee - that's feedback. "Ouch! The world hurts!" you think. Or, "Hmmmm ... concrete is hard. Skin
- [You get back what you give.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/08/you-get-back-what-you-give/) - In this world, you get back what you give. A few nights ago, a grumpy man at the donut shop (don't ask me why I was at the donut shop again - long week, I say) - scowled as he walked in. Gimme three donuts! He barked at the lady behind the counter. She frowned,
- [What do you put between you and your work?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/08/what-do-you-put-between-you-and-your-work/) - What do you put between you and your work? This was my day today: What's really most important? I'm no saint. Sometimes I feel like I get to the end of a day, and I've only made it halfway through the stuff I didn't even intend to do. How do you clear your head and
- [Gumption.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/07/gumption/) - Definition: Shrewd or spirited initiative and resourcefulness. The most 'successful' and talented people around me are not born talented. They aren't born with a success gene that other people don't have. They take initiative. They try things. They iterate. They fail beautifully. They have GUMPTION. Gumption to try things when other people won't. Courage to stand
- [Simple wisdom: The five things you need to do to be a good entrepreneur](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/03/simple-wisdom-the-five-things-you-need-to-do-to-be-a-good-entrepreneur/) - I recently got some really simple (but great!) advice on how to be an entrepreneur. There are only 5 things you need to do every day to make sure you’ll make it. Sleep Eat well Exercise Be social Get the work done. It turns out it's really hard to get #5 without the first 4.
- [A (San Francisco) Bay Swim](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/10/a-san-francisco-bay-swim/) - The other week, while walking the hills of Sausalito with my Aunt and Uncle, I asked my Uncle what he would say to his twenty-five year-old self if he could go back and give himself any piece of advice. Without skipping a beat, he said: Do it while you can. Don't wait for the fun
- [#WDS: Portland, Oregon. How to meet amazing people, do awesome work, and get everything you want. (Day 1)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/06/wds-1/) - When you tell people you're going to a World Domination Summit, you get some pretty strange looks. I told my day job that I was going to a writing/blogging conference (although I guess the cat's out of the bag now). I left Friday morning, early, to head to a 2-day conference in Portland with 500
- [#WDS: Photos of Portland](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/06/wds-photos-of-portland/) - An urban nerd meanders Portland, camera in hand: LOVE. The city is beautiful, stunning, green, progressive, relaxed, beautiful: HEAVEN. Then come 500 amazing souls to congregate in the best conference in the world, aptly titled the World Domination Summit: A MIND AFFAIR. #loveatfirstsight. DONE. I hope you enjoy some of these photos.
- [There's Someone I Want You To Meet. (LAC Book Review and a Free Book Giveaway!)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/03/theres-someone-i-want-you-to-meet-lac-book-review-and-a-free-book-giveaway/) - I want to set up a match. You know, a little blind date. The one where your friends find someone for you that they KNOW is perfect for you. Yes, you. I want you to meet Jenny. ABOUT YOU. YOU: are insanely talented, fresh out of college or somewhere a few years into a job
- [City Wanderings (and a 10-day hiatus!)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/04/city-wanderings-and-a-10-day-hiatus/) - I see London, I see France ... What a whirlwind year already (And it's only April!). I'm smack in the middle of deadlines, in over my head in responsibilities, and I want nothing more than to sit and write more of the pieces I'm working on -- both for this blog and elsewhere. Sounds like
- [Want the Process, not the Product](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/04/want-the-process-not-the-product/) - The most important type of change in your life is incremental change. Sometimes life requires big leaps. Other times, it requires lots of small steps. Wake up in a flurry, have a dream, want something. Expend all your energy that day, that week, in starting your new goal. (Say your goal is running, so you run
- [Put it out there. ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/05/put-it-out-there/) - At some point, you need to let go. Stop holding on to the project. Take your hands off the working table and put the tools down. Put it out in the world. What's worse than a "good" project is a project that never sees daylight. Most projects can be iterated. Most projects can get better
- [What The Middle Looks Like (and Happy Saint Patty's!)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/03/what-the-middle-looks-like/) - I've been running pretty thin lately - it's an exciting Spring, with several new projects under foot. I'm really excited to finally take some time to share some great news with you. At the same time, it's been a challenge to make it all happen - and I'm at work, late nights galore, trying to
- [If you don't commit, it won't happen.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/03/if-you-dont-commit-it-wont-happen/) - Commitment is key. Commitment is everything. Commitment means "I say yes," and "I'll do this," and, more importantly, it says "I know what I want." When you commit to something, you say yes. You make priorities. And by making priorities, you also say no. You say no to things that don't help you reach your
- [One Year From Today.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/03/one-year-from-today/) - March 10, 2010. One year from today. Not a year from now, in the future. A year before today. March 10th - last year. What were you doing? More importantly, what were you planning on doing? Take stock in your actions. Have you made changes? Have you made progress? Are you on your way towards your
- [Savor things + go slowly](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/03/savor-things-go-slowly/) - I am the worst offender of this. I'm so rushed doing one thing, thinking about the next thing, that I forget what it's like to just BE in the moment. I have scheduled time to tightly and packed my life so fully, that sometimes I try to swim faster just to get out of the
- [Anyway.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/02/anyway/) - People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and sincere, people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere
- [A Short Note on Determination and Persistence.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/02/a-short-note-on-determination-persistence/) - Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ~ Calvin Coolidge (1872 – 1933)
- [13 Outstanding Business Ideas from REWORK: Cut the Crap, Do What Needs to be Done, and Get Real (Book Notes)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/02/rework/) - If Seth Godin tells you to read something, you better freaking read it. I’m on a plane back from LA, enjoying the peace and quiet of a non-wireless flight with no distractions. I’m re-reading the book REWORK, on my to-read list for 2011, and highlighting the best parts. I’m trying desperately to ignore the sumptuous
- [Dear Car, It’s Complicated. Love, Me. (I Think I Have an Emotional Attachment)](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/dear-car-its-complicated-love-me-i-think-i-have-an-emotional-attachment/) -  Dear Car, I guess it's time we said good bye. This is harder than I thought it would be. I kind of like you. Scuff Scuff. I kick my feet in the dirt. I mean, we were pretty good friends, right? You've been with me for 20,000 miles - I don't even want to
- [30 days Car-FREE: An Experiment](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/30-days-car-free-an-experiment/) - Can I go 30 days without a car? As part of "Lessons from Less," and in a follow-up to my question about whether or not I should keep my car, I set out at the end of December to go for 30 days without my car to see if I can wrangle up the nerve
- [The Pitfalls and Costs of Car Ownership (And I Need Your Advice!) Should I Sell My Car?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2011/01/costs-of-car/) - Car-free or car-stuck? I have an important question that I'd love people to weigh in on: Should I sell my car? Logically, the question seems to have a very simple answer: yes. I keep writing lists and outlining the reasons why I should sell my car (and why I shouldn’t) and the balance seems to
- [The Journey.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/12/the-journey/) - Merry Christmas, everyone. And Happy Holidays! Words of wisdom from a friend. LOVE THIS.
- [Book Notes (Double Feature!): The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath, by Robert Samuelson](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/10/book-notes-double-feature-the-great-inflation-and-its-aftermath-by-robert-samuelson/) - What the heck is inflation? And why is it important? Does it matter for my daily life - getting a job, finding good schools, or figuring out what roads to fix? In the second part of this two-part review, I look at two books that detail the historical development of money and federal policy and
- [Book Notes (Double Feature!): The Ascent of Money, by Niall Ferguson](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/10/book-notes-double-feature-the-ascent-of-money-by-niall-ferguson/) - Two recent books take a look at the historical development of money and federal policy in the United States. "The Ascent of Money" (by Niall Ferguson) traces the history of currency as it relates to the history of civilization, while "The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath" (by Robert Samuelson) looks at federal policies in relation
- [If, by Rudyard Kipling](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/10/if-by-rudyard-kipling/) - "If," by Rudyard Kipling, is a poem that speaks to keeping your head during the difficult times, in staying true to your work efforts when sh*t hits the fan, and about maintaining integrity even when the world starts getting dicey. It's about persevering through the tough times. For some reason, it really hit home this month.
- [Oh, October](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/09/oh-october/) - Well folks, tomorrow's the first day of October. I AM SO EXCITED! What's not to love about Fall? From back-to-school shopping specials and pumpkin spice lattes; tail-gaiting at football games (or watching baseball, hockey and soccer); to apple-picking and pumpkin carving; recipes for delicious warm soups, pumpkin pies and breads; mulling spices and ciders; and
- [On remembering.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/09/on-remembering/) - Flags at USS Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor (Photo by Sarah) Humans are wonderful at remembering, and also wonderful at forgetting. We are blessed with very interesting minds that allow us to revisit past events, but not so much memory that we get overwhelmed with thoughts, feelings, and a running play-by-play of the past. How we
- [Lessons from … food poisoning?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/09/lessons-from-food-poisoning/) - If posts have been a little bit scarce lately, it's because I came down with a terrible bout of food poisoning (well, actually DYSENTERY, which is worse than food poisoning, and definitely much more disgusting). I've since been recovering (and catching up) on what now seem like very very long to-do lists and tasks. If
- [The happiness project](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/08/the-happiness-project/) - Sometimes the blues hit. For me, when the blues hit, they hit hard. I find myself dragging, having a hard time at work, unable to get as much writing done, slower to respond to my friends ... They are the days of curling up on couches, hiding underneath blankets, tapping my fingers on counter-tops, playing
- [Johanna Lelke: on Chiropractic Medicine, starting your own practice, and perseverance](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/06/professional-focus-chiropractic-medicine/) - This interview delves into the world of Chiropractic Medicine with Johanna Lelke, DC, of Innersport Chiropractic in Berkeley, CA. Johanna earned her Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. While contemplating an advanced medical degree, she learned about chiropractic medicine and “took the plunge” in starting and creating her own practice
- [The Last Lecture: Golden Gems from Randy Pausch](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/05/book-notes-the-last-lecture/) - If you found out you only had 6 more months to live, what would you want your legacy to be? What would you tell your friends, your family, and your loved ones? We all wonder what our memories will be, and what thoughts, values, and ideas we will leave behind should we suddenly be faced
- [Carlos Almendárez: Project Director, Bay Area Community Resources](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/05/career-focus-project-director-bay-area-community-resources/) - Carlos Almendárez, a 2003 graduate of UC Berkeley, is the Project Director for Bay Area Community Resources (BACR). He oversees 12 after-school programs for San Francisco Unified School District. His passion for sports, education, community involvement, and work-life balance led him to a job that he loves – working with students, people, and sports. In
- [Blink Tag, Inc: On starting your own web / technology company](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/05/career-focus-web-development-and-technology-consulting/) - This interview, with Brendan Nee and Jed Horne of Blink Tag Inc, focuses on web development, technology consulting, and starting your own company right out of school. Blink Tag is a startup company that specializes in web development, transportation and city planning websites, graphic design, and web consulting. Brendan and Jed did their graduate programs
- [(Don’t) work until you drop](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/04/dont-work-until-you-drop/) - A colleague of mine just sent me a quick email. She said, "I skipped lunch and now it's 2pm and I'm just going to keep on crunching until 7 to just get this thing done and get home." I asked her what she was planning on doing once she arrived home. She replied - "Nothing
- [Budget sense: how much money does food cost me?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/04/budget-sense-how-much-money-does-food-cost-me/) - So you've graduated from college and you're (hopefully) not living at your parents house anymore. You have a job, and even though it's not THE job that you eventually want, you're on track to start making your way up the ladder and working towards the career you want to have. Your days have changed a
- [Knowing when to take a break: how to recover from a hard day at work](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/04/knowing-when-to-take-a-break-how-to-recover-from-a-hard-day-at-work/) - Your boss just yelled at you for the third time, you missed a deadline, and you barely got any sleep for three days in a row. Lurking questions you've had about your career choice come rushing to the forefront of your mind, and your thoughts are inundated with yearnings to snap out at your boss,
- [A little bit of Mojo, please: Marshall Goldsmith's new book](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/03/book-notes-a-little-bit-of-mojo-please/) - What is confidence and where does it come from? Confidence is that frame of mind and characteristic that empowers us to feel good about ourselves, be proud of our accomplishments, and "toot our own horn" when the time is right. Confidence exudes from our persona in and out of the workforce and helps us achieve
- [Jenni Crowley, PhD: On Consulting, Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/03/career-focus-consulting-biotechnology-and-pharmaceuticals/) - Dr. Jenni Crowley is a Management Consultant with Campbell Alliance Group, Inc. Jenni has a PhD in Immunology from the University of Pennsylvania and undergraduate degrees in Biology and Chemistry. A self-professed “science geek,” she does business consulting for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, helping them work through business issues related to marketing, sales, and managed
- [Rowan Paul: On Sports Medicine, Medical School, and Graduate Internships](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2010/02/career-focus-sports-medicine-and-medical-school/) - This interview delves into the world of Primary Care Sports Medicine with San Francisco’s own Rowan Paul, M.D. Rowan is a graduate of Brown University and Albany Medical College, and did his residency at Stanford University and a fellowship at the University of Utah. Today, he works as a Primary Care Sports Medicine Physician at

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- [Hi, I'm Sarah Kathleen Peck.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.7.4″ _module_preset=”default” background_enable_image=”off” background_size=”contain” background_position=”center_left” custom_padding=”||48px|||” background_color_tablet=”#ffffff” background_color_phone=”#ffffff” background_last_edited=”on|tablet” background_enable_color_tablet=”on” background_enable_color_phone=”on” background_blend_tablet=”multiply” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ _builder_version=”4.7.7″ _module_preset=”default” width=”90%” max_width=”1400px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.6.3″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text content_tablet=” Hi, I’m Sarah Peck. I’m the founder of Startup Pregnant, and I write about how people work and why we do the things we do. In my work, I
- [Recess: 5 Minute Resets For Sanity & Calm](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/recess/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Header + Title” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_image=”https://www.sarahkpeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/pexels-photo-257092.jpeg” collapsed=”on” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”]Recess: 5 Minute Resets For Sanity & Calm A self-guided, self-paced audio course to help you breathe, relax, and find your center again. [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_divider show_divider=”off” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][/et_pb_divider][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ background_color=”rgba(127,10,74,0.21)” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” saved_tabs=”all” collapsed=”off”
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- [Press + Media](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/press/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.16″ header_line_height=”2em” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”]PRESS + MEDIA Professional bio: Sarah K Peck is the founder and CEO of Startup Parent and the host of The Startup Parent Podcast, an award-winning podcast featuring women in entrepreneurship, business, and parenting. She runs The Wise
- [Podcast Guest Appearances](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/listen/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.17.6″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]In addition to hosting my own podcast, I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with bright souls and minds around the globe. Here are some of my favorites. 2022 The false binary of entrepreneurship vs. employment
- [2020 Reading List](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2020-reading-list/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Book list intro” _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”rgba(99,140,128,0.51)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]2020 Reading List Every year I track the books I read and analyze what I’m reading from a macro perspective—are the authors all women, men, white, BIPOC? Whose voices am I listening to? I also write short
- [2021 Reading List](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2021-reading-list/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Book list intro” _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”rgba(99,140,128,0.51)” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.8.1″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]2021 Reading List Every year I track the books I read and analyze what I’m reading from a macro perspective—are the authors women, men, cis-gendered, heterosexual, white, BIPOC? More broadly—whose voices am I listening to, and which
- [Contact](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/contact/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22.7″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ max_width=”780px” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”780px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Articles %91About%93″ _builder_version=”4.9.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”]Contact I get a lot of email and it’s impossible for me to respond to everything, although I wish I could. Currently looking for: I appreciate meeting new editors and writers interested in working on deep work and
- [Focus: An Accountability Group for Creatives, Entrepreneurs, and Authors](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/focus/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Banner – Registration Opens” _builder_version=”4.14.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#DD3A11″ custom_padding=”||0px|||” hover_enabled=”0″ collapsed=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-45px|auto||auto||” custom_padding=”||0px|||” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#ffffff” header_text_color=”#ffffff” header_font_size=”34px” header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_color=”#ffffff” header_5_font=”Ubuntu|300||on|||||” header_5_text_color=”#ffffff” header_5_font_size=”18px” module_alignment=”center” custom_padding=”3px||10px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]ENROLLMENT IS currently closed. join the waitlist here[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ disabled_on=”on|on|on” admin_label=”Header + Title” _builder_version=”4.6.6″ background_color=”#00332b” background_image=”https://www.sarahkpeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/photo-1522202176988-66273c2fd55f.jpeg” background_blend=”luminosity” disabled=”on”
- [Podcast](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/podcast/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.9.2″ background_color=”#f86942″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.2″ width=”95%” max_width=”2560px” module_alignment=”center”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.2″ header_font=”Ubuntu|700||on|||||” header_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_font_size=”32px” header_line_height=”0.8em” header_5_font=”Ubuntu|300||on|||||” header_5_text_color=”#FFFFFF” header_5_font_size=”30px” header_5_line_height=”0.2em” width=”90%” max_width=”600px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”|10px|||false|false” custom_padding=”|10px|||false|false”]The Startup Parent Podcast[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.sarahkpeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/17.png” title_text=”17″ url=”https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/startup-parent/id1289880441″ _builder_version=”4.9.2″][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.9.2″ text_font=”Ubuntu Mono||||||||” text_font_size=”18px” text_line_height=”1.2em” link_text_color=”#761c6c” header_5_text_color=”#0a0a0a” background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]A PODCAST
- [Articles](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/articles/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22.7″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.2″ max_width=”800px” use_custom_width=”on” custom_width_px=”780px”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.25″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Articles %91About%93″ _builder_version=”4.9.2″]Articles I am a work and culture writer. My recent work focuses on the intersection of parenting, leadership, and business. I write about gender, parenting, and motherhood, especially at the intersection of work, and the growing culture of always-on, nonstop work expectations. [/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider
- [2018 Reading List](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/2018-reading-list/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Blog Content” _builder_version=”4.9.2″ module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.9.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”]This page serves as the ongoing list of books I’m reading in 2018, which I update around the end of each month. Last year, I started publicly tracked all of the books
- [Reading List](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/reading/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Title Text” _builder_version=”4.9.2″ _module_preset=”default”]Reading List I record what I read each year. Here are my book lists for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 as well as my storytelling recommended reading list.[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Intro Text” _builder_version=”4.8.1″ _module_preset=”default”][/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image
- [Books](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/books/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Title Text” _builder_version=”4.8.1″ _module_preset=”default”]Books[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Intro Text” _builder_version=”4.8.1″ _module_preset=”default”][/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.sarahkpeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/STICKY-SITUATIONS.png” title_text=”STICKY SITUATIONS” _builder_version=”4.6.5″ _module_preset=”default”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Ubuntu||||||||” header_3_font=”Ubuntu||||||||”]Sticky Situations WORD-FOR-WORD SCRIPTS YOU CAN USE TO GET OUT OF ALMOST ANY SITUATION. Ever have a
- [The Best Books of 2019—The Complete Reading List](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/best-books-2019-reading-list/) - A round up and summary of all of the books I read in 2019. Every year, I track the books I read and write short summaries of the books all on one page. This page is now my final tallied reading list for 2019—if you're following along in real time, I update this list at
- [Now](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/now/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Blog Content” _builder_version=”4.3.2″ max_width=”700px” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.7.0″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]Now: 2020 It’s November of 2020, so I’ll keep this simple: My partner and I are both entrepreneurs. We run our own businesses, from home, now with two children. It’s an adventure. It’s
- [Setting Boundaries & Saying No](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/boundaries-slides/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default” width=”90%”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image src=”https://www.sarahkpeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/6-copy.png” title_text=”6 copy” url=”https://www.dropbox.com/s/7uz0j0cg8tmk4rz/2020%20Boundaries%20%2B%20Saying%20No.pdf?dl=0″ url_new_window=”on” _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][/et_pb_image][/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.0″ _module_preset=”default” header_font=”Ubuntu||||||||”]Setting Boundaries & Saying No A workshop and a talk for people looking to get better at figuring out what they want, stating their boundaries, and saying no both clearly ad effectively.
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- [Courses + Workshops](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/courses/) - [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”Intro + Video Section” _builder_version=”4.0.6″ collapsed=”off”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.0.6″ collapsed=”on”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.0.6″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Courses” _builder_version=”4.0.6″]Courses[/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Why I teach” _builder_version=”4.0.6″]I help people connect to themselves, to their words, and to each other. All of my courses are designed with love, ambition, and inspiration—to help you grow your own ability to communicate, connect, and share. All of my
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- [Speaking](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/speaking/) - [et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text]Across all of my speaking engagements and workshops, I encourage people to use their voice, tell their story, and cultivate kindness. I bring elements of psychology, design, and physicality to a deep understanding how people work and why we do what we do. My deep love of movement and wellness (including 20 years of NCAA
- [Books I love and adore](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/books-i-love/) - They say a bookshelf is a window into someone's soul. I love books—and I try to read at least a book a week. Here's my hit list of my favorites from the past few years. This list is in-progress, incomplete, and growing. Send me a note if you have a comment or suggestion. Some of these
- [The $29,000 Birthday Swim](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/birthday-swim/) - "Here's to the crazy ones!" THE STORY: A $29,000 BIRTHDAY SWIM There are an over 8 million people in the world without access to clean water. As I speculate on the art of designing your life and I write with freedom and reckless abandon, I also know that some people are just trying to live.
- [Start Here](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/start-here/) - This site has more than 400 different essays, posts, and drawings. Here are some of the best-loved essays so far, as well as the most popular posts. Take a look at the posts organized by category (below), by clicking through on a topic that intrigues you, or browse the entire archives. Big life questions What makes
- [Storytelling + Narrative](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/storytelling/) - What is a story? And why do we tell stories? To be human is to connect to one another, and one of the ways we do this is through the use of visual, written, and oral storytelling. Through performance. We are all born storytellers, and we all have many stories to tell. Here's a working list
- [WALK + TALK](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/movement/walk-talk/) - "Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking ... is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of
- [Publications, Press & Interviews:](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/featured/) - Here's a selection of guest posts, featured essays, press, radio interviews + more writing from around the web: 2018 Parenting, Choosing Freedom, Doing Less, and My Story | Shameless Mom Academy Podcast, April 18, 2018. The 20-Hour Work Week | The Kate & Mike Show, Podcast Episode #74, March 2018. Planning Ahead For 2018 and
- [Free + Fun](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/free-fun/) - I like to make small, quirky, meaningful projects on the side. Here are a few of my creative indulgences. They are often centered around movement, wellness, thinking, writing, and sharing your voice (especially women's voices or under-represented voices). Please enjoy and feel free to let me know what you think. Startup Pregnant A blog featuring women (and
- [More Women's Voices](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/more-womens-voices/) - In the winter of 2016, my partner and I built a website dedicated to promoting more women’s voices around the web, in podcasts, in conferences, and as authors. Use this list to find new women for your event, or add your name to the list.
- [Site Love](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/site-love/) - "Sarah emerged in the blogosphere early in 2011 and is shaping up to be one of the most unique and inspiring voices online. Her content is always thought-provoking and will force you to confront the challenge of executing your best ideas. She studies where great ideas come from and help individuals and businesses do great
- [Your voice is worth sharing. Let's talk about what we can do together.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/work-together/) - I believe in the power of storytelling, creating your great work, and finding the right ways to share your message. I encourage people to be brave, to tell their stories, and to make work that matters. My work specializes in communications, marketing and storytelling design. Previously, I worked in communications for SWA Group, a company of
- [Thank you, I appreciate it.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/thank-you/) - Thanks! I appreciate it. Here's a link to my free Art of Asking e-book that you can download, enjoy, and read. Also! I'll be releasing a brand-new course based on this book with lots of specific scripts you can use to ask for what you want, big-picture strategies to make your ask stand out, and a
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- [Mastermind](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/mastermind/) - Each year, I run a private mastermind for a small group of thoughtful, creative people ready to level up in a holistic manner. The program is typically 8-9 months long and requires a dedication to expanding yourself, your business, and your mind. The program starts at $5,000 (Although I am currently experimenting with a community model
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- [The Writer's Workshop: A Digital Course](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/writers-workshop/) - Write powerfully. Tell sticky stories. Build content that converts. Create messages that inspire action. Writing well unlocks your ability to describe who you are and what you want. In today's digital age, writing is the backbone beneath everything we do: blogging, email, connection, and collaboration. Everyone is now a writer, whether they want to be or
- [Sarah K Peck enjoys writing, teaching, connecting, and learning.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/about/) - Sarah K Peck is an author, startup advisor, and yoga teacher based in New York City. She’s the founder and executive director of Startup Pregnant, a media company documenting untold stories of what it looks like to be a woman in leadership, life, and work. The Startup Pregnant Podcast shares long-form stories of parenting, business, entrepreneurship,
- [Content Strategy for Thought Leaders](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/content-strategy/) - Build your brand, business, and personal profile through strategic and spectacular writing. Join us for an eight-week course in mapping your ideas and perspectives into a coherent project story. Discover how to create a personalized thought leadership framework to develop your best content to share with the world — whether it's your business, a project,
- [Grace & Gratitude](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/graceandgratitude/) - Come together for daily practices in grace, gratitude, and cultivating an open heart. An email-based series to open our hearts & minds. A two-week guided workshop: December 4th — 20th, 2015 Registration closed An inspirational journey for your heart and soul. This is a two-week digital workshop focused on two powerful elements in our lives: gratitude and grace. We'll
- [Free Mini-Book: The Art of Asking](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/ask/) - What does it take to get more of what you want? Find out in my book, The Art of Asking: How to Ask For and Get What You Want. I share 21 strategies for creating your best ask, getting more of what you want, and bending the world to your desires. (Well, mostly.) In this 58-page e-book,
- [Start Writing](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/start-writing/) - Here are 30 days of quick and delightful writing prompts to get you into a writing habit.
- [Yoga Grams](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/yoga-grams/) - Want to learn more about yoga? Try these delightful 1-minute exercises, one per day, to start learning yoga moves even as a very beginner.
- [Walk and Talk](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/walk-and-talk/) - Walk and Talk is a philosopher’s series I hosted for a year in San Francisco: a journey through readings and ideas, all conducted while walking around the hills with new friends. Here are my reading sets and notes on how to do one yourself.
- [Curious about the Mastermind?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/curious-about-the-mastermind/) - Behind the scenes of my mastermind + business: bonus series Want to know more about the Mastermind that I run? In this email series, I'll be sharing: Why behavior design is so hard. Why online courses don't always work to get the results you want. What you can do when you're stuck in a plateau
- [Monthly Writing Prompt](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/monthly-writing-prompt/) - If you want to write more, get on my email newsletter list to get a free writing prompt each month. Each month, I'll put forward a topic for consideration with a call to write. The prompts: October 2016: Routine November 2016: Connection December 2016: Blog Sabbatical January 2017: Discernment February 2017: Perspective March 2017: Health
- [Email Class: Follow-Up Resources](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/emailclassbonuses/) - Thank you for taking my email class! If you thought it was useful, please share it with people (this helps me keep doing the work that I'm doing.) Feel free to use these as easy tweets to share with one click: I just took Sarah Peck's class on getting better at email communications, and I thought
- [Want To Learn A Little Bit About Yoga?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/yoga/) - 100 days of YogaGrams. On August 30th, I started a mini-project to teach people yoga — through Instagram. With the hashtag #100yogagrams, I'm sharing one new pose each day for 100 days to help people practice yoga, build their understanding of asana and vinyasa, and enjoy moving in their bodies! The hardest part of any
- [Free Mini-Courses](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/free-mini-courses/) - I like making new projects come to life. Here's a couple of projects I've built that can help you grow in your writing or yoga practice. All of these projects below are free for you and delivered by email! Yoga Grams: A beginner series for anyone who is brand-new or curious about yoga. Learn basic poses
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- [The Writer's Workshop: FAQ](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/writers-workshop-faq/) - FAQ: All The Nitty-Gritty I love the idea of a Writing Course! But who is it for? How do I know if it's the right fit for me? This course is designed for people who want to get better at writing but aren't ready to commit to a full-time program at a university, or want
- [Writer's Workshop | June 30th 2014](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/start-writing-workshop/) - Welcome to the June 2014 Summer Session of the Writer's Workshop! I'm so glad you're here to join me. I'm excited to get started with you very soon. As we speak (or write, rather), I'm finalizing the registrations of all the new classmates, getting our brand-new videos finalized, and putting the finishing touches on the latest
- [Storytelling 2.0: Leadership, sticky messages and the psychology of persuasion.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/storytellingtwo/) - In this second class of my two-part series, I'll show you how people use stories every single day—and how to understand the nuances of storytelling for leadership, messaging, and persuasion. I've taught storytelling and narrative writing workshops live across the country—from the World Domination Summit to Bold Academy to General Assembly, and now I'm teaching two of these workshops
- [Success! Thanks for registering for the Storytelling webinar.](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/storytelling-success/) - Thanks so much for signing up for the class! I'm very excited to share everything I know about storytelling with you. The courses are the culmination of more than 85 books, ideas, and thousands of hours of research on storytelling—distilled and jam-packed into two 90-minute sessions to cover the best of what you need to know to improve
- [Want to be a better storyteller?](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/storytelling-workshops/) - Humans are born storytellers. The way we tell and share our stories about who we are, what we do, and what we want affects who sees us, hears about us, and whether or not the right people connect with us. If you want to learn how to describe yourself or your business (or both), join
- [One on One Coaching + Consulting](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/coaching/) - Sometimes you need someone in your corner. I love connecting with people through this website and the continually-expanding network that the internet creates. I work with high-impact individuals to help accelerate their goals by providing clarifying questions, creating strategic action plans, and helping to unpack the habits and psychological "traps" we can get into along
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- [Life Checklist](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/life-checklist/) - The life goals checklist has been pioneered by many. This is a great way to get to know somebody. I invite you along, although the list may be changing from time to time. I wholeheartedly encourage you to build your own as well. What do you hope to do in your lifetime? (For those of
- [The Start Something Project](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/the-start-something-project/) - It’s like I just woke up, and I realized: this is it. We only have one world, we only have one life. This IS your chance. This IS your life.What you are doing right now, today? Tomorrow? The day after that? What are you doing? That’s you. That’s what you’re doing. Do you like it? Are you ready to take yourself seriously? I’ve been there.
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- [swimming](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/movement/swimming/) - They say it takes ten years to become an expert at something. Ten years of patience, dedication, determination, repeated failure. Thousands and thousands of hours of meticulous preparation; each day a hair different from the previous; the accumulation something remarkable, unexpected. I started swimming when I was two years old, dropped in the water by
- [handstands](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/movement/handstands/) - I'm on a mission to insert a little more joy, fun, authenticity, and movement into the world. I believe we have the power to change ourselves, our environments, and our lives by doing a little bit, over time, consistently. A thousand micro-actions make a movement, and a movement is rarely one giant tidal wave. And
- [movement](https://www.sarahkpeck.com/movement/) - The power of moving -- of shaking your body, of dancing, laughing, singing, skipping, swinging, holding, hugging, playing, running, walking, giggling -- this is life. You have a body. Our happiness and well-being; our imagination and creativity; our livelihood and connectivity--these things come from the ability to navigate your body, move it well, live in
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