The Burnout Diagnosis Most Industries Refuse to Make Imagine being in a ballroom, listening to Singapore’s Chief Justice deliver an opening address, and somewhere around the middle of it, having to physically restrain yourself from jumping up and down. That is basically what happened to me last July at the Legal Profession Symposium. Not because anything shocking was said. But because the quiet part was FINALLY being said. Out loud, in public. By one of the most respected voices in...

Spring Motivation Is Here. Please Don’t Build Your Life Around It. I grew up in the French Alps, where spring is NOT subtle. One week everything is cold and frozen, the next week the whole valley is aggressively alive. Four seasons, dramatically different, so your body learns the rhythm whether you want it to or not. Then I lived in Singapore for nearly 20 years, with tropical 30+ degrees year-round and no real seasons to speak of. And yet every single March/April, something in my body would...

Your Problem-Solving Brain Is The Problem 20 years of corporate life trained me to do one thing brilliantly: hear a problem, solve it, move on. With a blend of decent critical thinking + a loud mouth, I could fix things before the meeting was over. That skill built my career. It is also, it turns out, the single most counterproductive thing I do to myself. I found this out the hard way when I started coaching. 2 decades of being paid decent money to solve problems all day means it’s really...