Clarity On Fire

Raise your hand if you’ve ever been a couch potato who decided the best way to motivate yourself was to go all out: signing up for a marathon, weightlifting every day, or going to yoga 6 times a week. Or maybe you decided it was time to clean up your diet, so you cut all sugar AND dairy AND wheat AND meat. Or perhaps you wanted to get clear on your career direction, so you bought ten self-help books and signed up for four courses in the space of a month. The obsession with “all or nothing” is REAL. And a lot of us are caught in a never-ending cycle of swinging from one end of the pendulum to the next, without feeling like we’re making any real progress (and driving ourselves crazy, to boot). In this month’s interview with an expert, we had a conversation with our friend and fellow coach Amy Everhart, who has lifelong experience with this pattern and is still a work in progress herself. We talked about: Where the “all or nothing” mentality comes from (we have multiple theories!). When it’s actually OK — and w