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Live the Life That’s Waiting For You

One Month To Go! There’s still time to join us at a rejuvenating weekend retreat! Make time to design the life you want from on November 1 to 3, 2019 at 1440 Multiversity, a beautiful 75-acre campus nestled in the California redwoods. This is an opportunity to work with me for 3 days of coaching, …

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Find Ease This Weekend

Are you longing for more meaningful work or more fulfilling relationships? Or just more time to focus on what matters most? (Or how about just more time in general?) I would love to help you find these things! Please join me for a rejuvenating weekend retreat from November 1 to 3, 2019 at 1440 Multiversity, a beautiful 75-acre campus nestled …

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The Best Advice for New College Students (Not From Me)

Even though I tend to think that we parents have worn out our welcome in the advice department by the time our kids go off to college, I am still full of hopes and ideas. My daughter Fiona, who just started college last week, got some really amazing send-off advice from her wise college counselor, …

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Dear Christine: My Son Went Off to College and I Want to Cry

Dear Christine, My oldest child is off to college. In the last few weeks, relatives have been offering him their sage “how to succeed in college” advice. Friends keep sending me an article from the New York Times offering advice to college freshmen: “Don’t take other people’s Adderall. Granola bars have a lot of sugar. The stamp …

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How — and Why — to Go on a REAL Vacation

Nearly 40 percent of US employees feel like they have too much work to take a vacation. But research suggests you’ll be happier, healthier, and more productive if you do. Last year, I was invited by KJ Dell’Antonia of The New York Times to coach Julie, a partner at a law firm who was feeling …

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Dear Christine: How Can I Get My Teenager to Listen to Me?

Dear Christine, My daughter has a chronic health problem that we’ve been dealing with since she was almost three years old. Until very recently, I managed everything about her illness for her: appointments, medications, decision making around treatment, etc. She’s always been interested in learning more about her disease, and she’s been a compliant patient. …

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How to Only Do Things You Actually Want to Do

Recently, I started getting loads of requests for help managing too-long task lists, and so I published this process for organizing them. Ineffective task lists make us feel like we have too much to do in too little time, which makes us feel overwhelmed. Ironically, this makes us worse at planning and managing our time. …

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Please Stop Interrupting Me!

Why interruptions make us irritable, anxious, and unproductive Several years ago, I devised a system for quickly getting into the “zone” while I wrote. Free from distractions and interruptions, I wrote quickly, joyfully, and with surprisingly little effort. But then we moved, and now my husband and I both work mostly from home. And although …

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Dear Christine: How Can I Get More Sleep?

Hi Christine, I have a habit of going to bed later than I want and then being rushed in the morning and getting to work late. For several years now, I’ve been wanting to get to bed earlier, but I can’t seem to do it. I have a tendency to feel pretty driven and busy …

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Thursday Thought

“Everything is calmer if things feel predictable.” –Christine Carter from A Family Guide for Surviving the Summer  

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