Wildly Successful Lifestyle

I laid in bed completely still and my heart was pounding like I was running. I hadn’t moved. Nothing outside of me had changed. A story had started in my head, and by the time I noticed, I was wide awake, convinced the worst version of tomorrow was already on its way.

Nothing bad had happened. By morning it felt almost silly. It never even came. I had given myself an anxiety attack. Just from thinking.

We do most of our worst things to ourselves in our heads. What you focus on gets louder. When your heart is racing and nothing outside has changed, ask one question: has this happened, or am I writing it?

Question: what disaster did you live through last night that never actually came?

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I don’t need someone else to tell me how I feel.

My Whoop had no data. I was so frustrated I wanted to throw my phone. Then I noticed I felt great. I slept great. I didn’t need the app to confirm it. I messaged support, and I let it go.

Sometimes I do the opposite. If the score says the sleep was bad, I start the day already behind. The number writes the morning. A device, a person, a comment, a scale. Useful information. Not the boss of how you feel.

You know how you feel. Trust that first.

Question: what have you been letting tell you how you feel?

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How do you want to feel today? Before the day starts. Before the app. Before you are so hungry you will eat whatever is in front of you.

I know that if I spend too much time on X, I don’t feel good. Some of it is useful. A lot of it is politics and drama. So I have to decide before I open it. Fifteen minutes, or not at all. They already have my number.

This one is about setting an intention for the day. How you’re going to feel. How you’re going to respond. What you’re going to do that actually feels good. And what you’re going to limit, because you already know the after.

The scroll feels good at first. So does the first bite of a donut. That little hit is the bait. The things that actually benefit you have a lightness. A deep-down satisfying feel. A long-term benefit. The hit takes more than it gives.

Food. People. Movement. Content. All of it follows how you start. Be as intentional as you can for a week. See if the trajectory shifts.

Question: what is your X? The thing you already know leaves you worse, that you keep calling a break.

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You see it… but do you really see it?

In this episode I’m talking about a wrinkled rug in my Tuscan room that I noticed for a full week before I finally fixed it — and what that taught me about the difference between noticing something and actually doing something about it.

We all have those small things we see (in our homes, our neighborhoods, our days) that never quite move us to action. Sometimes it’s a rug. Sometimes it’s trash on the street. Sometimes it’s something much quieter. Today I’m sharing what shifted for me and why the gap between seeing and really seeing matters more than we think.

What’s one thing you’ve been seeing but haven’t really seen yet?

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Is something wrong with you because life feels like a roller coaster of highs and lows? No — that’s just life.

In this episode I share a real (and recent) story from two of my design projects where we went from blissful to devastated and back again within hours: a hole in a brand-new tub, a defective custom vanity, and a light fixture that arrived shattered… twice. It’s a perfect illustration of what Frank Sinatra sang about in “That’s Life” — riding high in April, shot down in May, back on top in June — except sometimes those swings happen in the same day.

The truth is, problems aren’t the problem. Something would be wrong if you didn’t have them, because that would mean you’re not living, growing, or reaching past your current limits. What actually determines the quality of your life is how you respond. Quitting, ignoring, or doing the same thing over and over just creates more problems. Changing your response (and your approach when something keeps going wrong) is what moves you forward.

If you’ve ever told yourself “I’m never doing this again” only to keep going because the work brings you so much fulfillment, this one’s for you. Hang in there — the high can return faster than you think.

Share this with 3 people who experience ups and downs (hint: that’s everybody).

I love you guys — I’ll talk to you in a few days.

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What if everything is always working in your favor? Even when it seems like it's NOT.....

A client scheduled a floor install we knew nothing about. We almost made her reschedule so we could finish. My contractor said this may actually work in our favor. The vanity legs might not be here anyway. He was right. The hold kept us from looking unprepared.

The job is just the example. The thought changes how you move. A canceled plan. A late yes. A week that will not match the picture in your head. You still feel the frustration. You just stop making the decision from the frustration alone.

Question: where in your life would that thought have changed what you did this week?

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“It’s only off by a sixteenth. You can’t even tell.”

Tight timeline. Hardwood guys waiting. I nodded and we moved on. Then the sink and the backsplash went in perfectly straight, and the mirror that had looked fine suddenly looked wrong. Now my guys have to come back and pull a heavy mirror to fix something that would have taken ten minutes.

My contractor’s line to his kids: it’s not going away. It usually just gets worse the longer you leave it.

The useful part is telling the difference between “this doesn’t actually matter” and “I just don’t feel like dealing with this right now.” One is wisdom. The other comes back and asks for more of your time.

Question: what already has a red flag on it that you’re hoping will resolve itself?

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What if you never feel like it?

Eric was home sick. I was fine. No part of me wanted to go to the gym. My brain handed me a good excuse. Stay with him. It sounded like love. It was the couch.

I once spent an hour on my phone instead. The rest of the day I was irritated and anxious, wishing I had just gone. I have never, not one time, wished I had scrolled instead of gone to the gym.

If you wait for the day you suddenly feel like it, some things never happen. The workout. The book. The hard conversation. The life you keep describing. Make the decision that leaves you free of regret.

Question: what do you never regret, even when you didn’t feel like it?

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A previous designer talked her into a stark white sofa. Her house is cozy, rich, and dark. She has dogs. She is a perfectionist. She knew it was not what she wanted.

Now we are designing around it. Hiding it. Covering it. Protecting it. The other designer has moved on. She has not thought about that sofa once. My client lives with it every day.

This one is about the difference between good guidance and someone else’s agenda. The career, the relationship, the room. If your gut said no and you did it anyway, the aftermath is yours.

Question: what are you still living with that somebody else talked you into?

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Have you ever looked at someone else’s life and thought, everything is so easy for them? It isn’t. A life that looks easy is a pile of nos.

We were in a stone warehouse picking vanity countertops. The floor and the shower were already beautiful. The job was not to find the most spectacular slab. The job was to walk past it.

In this episode: why “do no harm” is a life decision, what to stop leaving up to your mood, and the edit that makes a life come together. What you eat. How much you move. Who and what you allow into your life and your home.

Question: what do you already know you need to take out?

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