We are all guilty of spending most of our time consuming instead of creating.  We spend hours scrolling on our phones, tablets and computers through social media, binging episodes on streaming services, watching cable tv, etc.  Consuming makes you passive in your life.

How would your life change if you became an active creator of new things in your own life?

What are the benefits of creating instead of consuming?

How can you create instead of consume in your own life?

Creation turns you from passive observer into an active participant in your own life. Consumption is fleeting. Creation is lasting. When you create, you don’t just add a layer of depth and richness into your own life, you create a positive impact for many others in the world.

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

Copyright © 2025 by Stephen Lesavich, PhD.  All rights reserved.

Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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When I worked as a professional software engineer for AT&T Bell Laboratories, I was a member of the AT&T corporate running team.

At that time, one component of AT&T Bell Laboratories was located in Naperville, Illinois, which is a city about 30 miles south west of the city of Chicago.

The AT&T running team was very competitive at that time and there were a couple of runners who could run about 4:10 mile.  On my best days, I was running about a minute plus slower, or could run about a 5:30 pace per mile at that time.

On May 19, 1988, I ran a 6K (3.7 miles) running road race, the Spring Fling Run, sponsored by AT&T Bell Labs at the Hickory Ridge Conference Center in Lisle, Illinois, which is a city near Naperville.

I had a winning strategy in mind for the race. 

The strategy I used to win that race made me think about developing a winning strategy in life and in business.

How do You develop a winning strategy in your own life?

Taking the time to develop and execute your own winning strategy allows you to create a significant positive impact in your own life.

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

Copyright © 2025 by Stephen Lesavich, PhD.  All rights reserved.

Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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Are you bored are work? How often have your heard from your children and other people that they are bored.

In the age of constant notifications, motivational hacks and our productivity culture, boredom has been cast as a villain, something to avoid at all costs.

What if Strategic Boredom is actually an untapped superpower you can use in your personal and professional life?

What is Strategic Boredom?
How Can Strategic Boredom Benefit You?
How Does Strategic Boredom Work?
Why Does Strategic Boredom Work?
How Can You Practice Strategic Boredom in Your Personal and Professional Life?

By practicing Strategic Boredom, you create the mental breathing room that lets you hear your deepest insights, rediscover curiosity, and make choices from a place of calm. clarity instead of constant stimulation to create a positive impact in your personal and professional life.

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

Copyright © 2025 by Stephen Lesavich, PhD. All rights reserved.

Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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Summer carries a certain magic. The days stretch long and golden, the evenings hum with warmth and nature bursts into fullness.

It’s a season that invites you to pause, breathe and savor.

Yet, how often do you let it pass by in a blur of plans, busyness, or distractions?

This summer, what if you chose to slow down, just enough to fully experience the joy that’s right in front of you?

What can summer teach you?

How can you let your intuition lead you this summer?

Embracing the summer season will allow you to create a positive impact in your life.

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

Copyright © 2025 by Stephen Lesavich, PhD.  All rights reserved.

Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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It’s Hard to See the Bigger Picture When You’re Standing in the Frame.

You have been there. Stuck in a problem, tangled in emotions, or unsure of what’s really going on.

Why?

It’s hard to see the bigger picture when you’re standing in the frame.

To gain perspective, you need to intentionally create distance.

Here are a few tools that can help.

Changing your perspective by stepping out of the current frame of your life and viewing the larger picture will help you create a positive impact in your life.

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

Copyright © 2025 by Stephen Lesavich, PhD.  All rights reserved.

Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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When we think about health and fitness, we often focus on strength, flexibility, or endurance.

There’s one foundational element that quietly supports them all: physical balance. Balance is essential to everyday life, and its benefits reach far beyond simply avoiding a fall.

I urge you to, challenge your balance!

“Challenge Your Balance”

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

When we think about health and fitness, we often focus on strength, flexibility, or endurance.

There’s one foundational element that quietly supports them all: physical balance. Balance is essential to everyday life, and its benefits reach far beyond simply avoiding a fall.

How can your train yourself to be in physical balance in your life?

What are some easy ways to add physical balance to your life?

Balance is also not just a physical skill, it’s a metaphor for how we move through life.

When your body is in balance, you’re more grounded, more agile, and more prepared to handle life’s unexpected shifts.

Investing a little time in balance today pays off with confidence, coordination, and vitality for years to come and creates a positive impact in your life.

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

Copyright © 2025 by Stephen Lesavich, PhD.  All rights reserved.

Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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The week after the 4th of July often feels like a deep breath. It allows you to take a pause between celebration and routine.

Many of you find yourselves craving calm after the fireworks of the 4th of July and this is the perfect moment to dive inward.

What can swimming and water teach you about resilience and letting go?

How can you use water to get into a flow and stay into a flow in your own life?

Let the water teach you what you already know, you can make a positive impact in your life by staying in the flow. You’re stronger, more adaptable, and more buoyant than you think.

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

Copyright © 2025 by Stephen Lesavich, PhD.  All rights reserved.

Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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Let me share another true story with you.

A painful one.

A couple of years ago, as I was closing my car door with my left hand in the parking lot a local business, I got distracted and I slammed the car door with my left hand on all four of my fingers on my right hand, trapping all four of my fingers on my right hand in between the car door and the car body, with the car door locked.

Ouch!

It was immediately extremely painful and was an instance of adversity in my own life.

Sometimes a situation in your own your life “slams the door” on you, causing you unexpected pain or an obstacle that leaves you momentarily trapped or is a setback in your life.

You feel your access to progress in your own life is blocked by a locked door.

When you find yourself in such a situation in your own life, how can you pickup your keys and unlock the door that is blocking you?

Life will slam doors on you from time-to-time. You always have the keys in own pocket to unlock such doors. You my drop your own keys. Even in such a situation when you do, you can bend down, pick them up, unlock that door and keep going and create a positive impact in your own life.

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

Copyright © 2025 by Stephen Lesavich, PhD.  All rights reserved.

Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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On May 21, 2025, in Game 1 of the 2025 NBA Eastern Conference Finals, the Indiana Pacers rallied from a 14-point deficit with under three minutes remaining in regulation to defeat the New York Knicks in overtime,   The Pacers were down 14 with 3:14 left in the fourth quarter. Aaron Nesmith, with six 3-pointers in the final five minutes, fueled the comeback.

Taking and making 3 point shots in a game also offers a number of reward outcomes that are not available by taking and making only 2 point shots.  The reward outcomes are only available by taking, “3 > 2” risk actions in a basketball game.

You will face adversity many different times in your own life.

You can win more often personally and professionally in your own life by taking 3 > 2® risk actions.

How can you win by taking “3 > 2®” risk actions in your own life?

I am a 3 point shooter in my life. How about you?

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

Copyright ©2025 by Stephen Lesavich, PhD.  All rights reserved.

Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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Your attachment style, is a psychological blueprint that influences how you relate to others.

Attachment theory was developed by British psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, John Bowlby and later expanded by American-Canadian developmental psychologist, Mary Ainsworth.

Attachment theory is based on how you bonded with your primary caregivers (e.g., your mother, grandmother, aunt, father, etc.) which tends to mirror how you bond with others as an adult.

There are four types of personal and professional attachment styles: (1) secure; (2) anxious; (3) avoidant; and (4) disorganized.

Attachment style is very important in your personal life.

Attachment style plays a surprisingly powerful role in your professional life as well.

Your professional attachment style influences leadership, communication, collaboration, negotiation, and even how you handle success or failure.

How can you change your current personal or professional attachment style?

Creating a new attachment style by rewiring your own emotional habits allows you to create healthier connections and build new relationships in a new way to create a positive impact in your own life.

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

Copyright © 2025 by Stephen Lesavich, PhD.  All rights reserved.

Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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