Free Access to All My Medium Stories
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The articles below are loosely categorized; there is quite a lot of overlap in topics! This page is updated monthly.
My Top Stories:
Stop Trying to Manage Your Time
Dare to Create a List of 100 Things You Want
Don’t Pick Your Values From a List
How to Break the Sunday Night Dread Cycle
The overlooked distraction that’s killing your productivity
How to stop thinking terrible things about yourself
My year of “sobriety” ended six months ago
What it really takes to become a successful coach
Coaching, Listening, and Other Personal Development Topics:
What Should a Good Coaching Session Feel Like?
What Stops Happening When You Start Listening
If you want bigger rewards, go for deep listening
How a Rubber Duck Can Solve (Almost) Anything
Create successful hybrid meetings with these 4 coaching skills
Look for these two signs of emotional maturity in a new partner
The Visible Difference Between Explaining and Thinking Aloud
When Holding Back is the Way Forward
It’s the end of the talk (and I feel fine)
When our questions make them think too hard
The phrase that helped me shut up (when all I wanted to do was scream)
Maybe they were eaten by a bear
Top 3 ways my brain is a jerk — and the 9 strategies I use to deal with it
Think (on this) before you speak
Glimmers and Getting Unstuck — What I’ve learned about people from 800 hours of coaching
Mindset & Productivity:
How to go from Overthinking to Expert Thinking
Overthinking the email you just sent
3 Key Elements to Feeling Accomplished
For Better Conversations, Ask Shorter Questions
7 ways to create original work
To get to the essence of any issue…
Navigating the valleys between rocks and hard places
Forget everything. Create systems you trust.
The real reason you’re staying up late, scrolling on your phone
7 meaningful ways to celebrate success
If you’re struggling to figure out how to show up…
When you’re not doing the thing you actually want to do
Stuck? Ask yourself this magic question
Thoughts are just sentences in your head
Five phrases to use during challenging times
Two concepts for making sense of uncomfortable situations
Create more value by doing less
Your ideas are not a precious resource
Get it done with a simple reframe
You are not an imposter and there is no syndrome
Managing your mind is the key to everything you want
How to change your thoughts in four stages
The problem with your pro/con list
It’s not ‘Imposter Syndrome’, it’s a Sick System
These are the things that give you away
Finding peace when it feels like there’s nothing you can do
Make self-care easy on yourself
A 3-step process for making the most of your time
You Still Have the Rest of the Year to Do it All
Consider This as You Plan Your Year
It’s OK to go places and not do all the things
Why Problems vs. When Problems
You’re Probably Doing More Unpaid Work Than You Think
Beyond Inbox Zero: A strategic and practical guide to managing email
The Sad Tomato — Disappointment and pushing for outcomes
How to Write a Task (and actually feel like doing it)
Vision, Mission, and Strategy:
Demystifying Vision, Mission, Strategy, and Roadmap
Is your vision statement short-sighted?
From Wordle to Octordle: Why you need to change strategy when you scale
Forget your passion, follow your Desire Path
Get out. And stay out. — How Subaru used covert messaging to build trust and demonstrate allyship
UX, Design, and Research:
10 reasons why NPS is BS (and what you can do about it)
Your product, among other things
Don’t ask users your burning questions
Use this UX Method in Your Next Challenging Conversation
What comes after customer-centricity?
No matter the craft, always make a swatch
Bad service design is death by 1000 cuts
In Your Workplace Darkroom — how to go on when you have your doubts
When in Doubt, Talk to a Customer
Onboard your Coaching & Consulting Clients Like a UXer
Language, Linguistics, Metaphor and more
Dogwhistles: the New Pitch of the Same Old Racist Tune
From Infectious Disease to Contagious Laughter
Mele Kalikimaka is a thing to say…but why?
Pay Attention to the Metaphors
Don’t Tell Me What to do; Please Like Me!
Let’s agree to disagree…politeness or simply more racism?
Why “let’s hop on a call” isn’t working
Films and media:
An overthinker’s list of thought-provoking horror films
What I learned from watching 200 films in 2022
How the Matrix helped me achieve my goals
Other stories:
Every Day Pandemic, A Small Story
31 Days, 31 Ways to Participate in Me-Made-May
Learning to read is something we do more than once
Going from 0 to 1¢ is the hardest part
Top 5 mistakes that made my launch a success
This is Your Winter of Care and Repair
Paying Attention to Things is How You Show Love — Winter of Care & Repair Update #1
This Ever-Mending Winter – Winter of Care & Repair Update #2
Before You Hit Publish on Your Next Story…
Tending the Graveyard of Special Dates
Borrowed Interest and the Enshittification of Our Voices
That time I almost lost a hand, and other reflections on near disasters
A learning from every £1000 I’ve earned so far in 2024 (this list is shorter than you might think)
Nothing changes, but our job remains the same — Reflections on two elections, eight years apart
Kim is a life-long overthinker who has overcome many challenges to turn her mental energy into a skill for getting things done and feeling great about it. She’s on a mission to help others do the same. Join the expert thinkers who are gaining clarity and focus with weekly insights in the Hold That Thought newsletter
