Behind The Brilliance

This week's episode is a Q+A session where I answer a question about dealing with overwhelm and how to manage new opportunities. This week, Lisa Likes Spider Oak ONE, a super awesome, privacy-enhanced backup system that stores your files on a hard drive and in the cloud for access anytime across multiple devices. A life saver if anything ever happens to your computer. This episode covers: -Why "no" is a complete sentence and why "hell yeah or no" is a great place to start -Values and how they inform a vision, goals, plans, actions, and measuring the return on choices -Rest + sleep and why they're so necessary (and generally awesome) -Priming the creative pump -Productivity: hacks for batching, email, time management, and efficiency -Assessing costs for an opportunity in terms of time, money, energy, and opportunity cost -Choosing projects that benefit the greater good -Aligning opportunities with goals -FOMO is a mofo (full stop) -Figuring out what really matters to you and having the opportunities you accept