YOU don’t need to change, but your habits and tools might.Įven your “bad” habits exist because they fulfill a need.Īnd that need is usually perfectly natural - part of our evolutionary wiring. I helped these clients restructure what was hard for them or strategize to eliminate it.ģ. Giving an hour-long presentation is a piece of cake, but going to the grocery store is torture. Many of my clients start off feeling embarrassed or even ashamed about their struggles.Īstrophysics or fire science are easy, but managing a stack of paperwork is nigh impossible. What’s easy for one person might be hard for others. I’ve got a quiver of different To Do List structures that can prevent this.Ģ. We grew up learning time management and productivity tools that don’t support our unique needs, leading us to struggle to be effective and productive, often with significant shame.įor example, a classic To Do List works just fine for many people.īut what if looking at your list overwhelms you and sends you down an epic, procrastination-driven web crawl? Many of my clients are neurodivergent and, like me, are autistic or have ADHD. Our systems must consider and support our authentic selves, not shoehorn us into who we think we should be. Sometimes we outgrow our productivity systems - or they’ve never comfortably fit. Here’s what I believe about supporting my clients:ġ. My coaching incorporates what I’ve learned about habit change, neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, gamification, and a lifetime of inventing creative solutions to get out of my own way. I learn my clients’ strengths, and together we experiment to tweak processes to suit those strengths while removing the pitfalls that keep bogging them down. “Change is hard, entropy is real, and it takes a lot of focus and reinforcement to stick with new behavior”Īs a habit coach, I help people learn tools and strategies to live and work with less friction and stress. Or maybe you are so burnt out that your brain sizzles every time you try to focus on the work that used to be your passion but is now impossible. Maybe you recently realized you’re neurodivergent, which explains why your systems never quite worked - they were built using guidance from people with a different operating system. Maybe you’ve outgrown your habits and systems and need help making upgrades. What if you had an expert problem solver to support and troubleshoot your habits, systems, and processes?

I’m a Beeminder user for the same reasons we all are:Ĭhange is hard, entropy is real, and it takes a lot of focus and reinforcement to stick with new behavior.

establish a daily journaling habit that’s 4.5 years old and 265,000 words strong.

My name is Melissa Smith, and Beeminder has been critical scaffolding for me since 2015. Huge thanks to Beeminder for sharing this guest blogging opportunity.

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