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Creating Space · March 2025 · Vol. 14
Productivity is not about Time - It's about Impact
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Welcome
Your Comfort Zone isn't Doing You Any Favors
We all love feeling comfortable.
Familiar routines, predictable environments, and low-risk situations offer a sense of stability that feel like a safe haven, but here’s the hard truth:
Your comfort zone also keeps you stuck.
It’s easy to believe that staying where things feel easy is the best choice.
After all, it feels good to avoid stress and uncertainty. But boy is that a red herring.
Growth — real, meaningful growth — never happens when everything stays the same.
If you’re craving fulfillment, progress, or change, it’s time to dig deep.
Your comfort zone is an illusion.
When you stay there too long, you trade potential for predictability.
You avoid failure and at the same time, success.
You dodge discomfort, but miss out on a whole lot of adventure, learning, and self-discovery.
Growth only happens when you are highly uncomfortable.
If you think about the times you’ve learned the most (and changed the most), it definitely involved challenges, uncertainty, and fear.
That’s just the truth.
Your comfort zone might feel good, but it’s not where your potential lives.
If you want more fulfillment and better opportunities, you have to lean into the discomfort.
In the long run, the risk of not trying is so much greater than the risk of stepping into the unknown, so ask yourself:
Where am I choosing comfort over growth?
And more importantly, What could happen if I stepped beyond it?
I can tell you with 100% certainty that if you do, your life will change.
With that said, what happened the last time you stepped beyond your comfort zone?
Hit reply and let me know,
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New on YouTube
March 2025 Productivity Report
Productivity isn't about time; it's about creating impact
This month, I share why time isn't the only criteria you have to consider when thinking about your productivity. So often we think that we just have to do things faster, but that's far from the truth.
Read the overview up top, the full blog post here, and check out the visual report over on YouTube:
 In this video, I:
→ share how I view productivity and why
→ show you how to think about your goals and track progress
→ explain what stats I focus on and how I'm doing
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 The Creative Journey & What It Means for Entrepreneurial Success feat. Anna Murray
In this conversation with longtime client (and more recently, dear collaborator) Anna Murray from Spirals, I discuss how the creative journey intersects with entrepreneurial success.
Anna has over 20 years working in the creative industry running award-winning London based studio Patternity plus working on global projects with Google, The V&A, Penguin, & The Welcome Trust, among others.
Anna has been listed as one of London’s most influential people by the Evening Standard Progress 1000 as well as winning awards in Wallpaper* Homes and Gardens and Elle Decor. She is featured regularly in titles including Vogue, Sunday Times Style and The New York Times.
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Quarterly Planning Workshop for Q3
If you missed our last QP session on June 13th, 2025, you can now watch the replay over in the academy!
Even if it's not live anymore, you can still follow along and complete the work for yourself to get ready for Q3!
This event is great for all entrepreneurs everywhere, regardless of business model and industry.
Here's what we cover:
- Past quarter reflection - What happened in the past months?
- Productivity Audit - What is draining you, and how can we fix it?
- Implementation Mapping - What needs to happen next?
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