The Kickstartology Blog

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach The Thought Error that will Keep You Stuck Do you believe any of these thoughts in relation to something in your life that you would love to change? It's going to be hard. I never follow through. There...

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Your Day-to-Day is Revealing Ask Yourself: If someone had a videotape of the last 24 hours of your life, what assumptions would they make? What might they assume about your mood, your character, and your...

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach This was NOT the plan Oops. Last night I ate chocolate chip muffins for dinner and binge-watched reality TV until 3:30 am. For those of you asking, it was The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, season 1,...

By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach Are you overthinking a decision due to self-doubt? "I hate this. But maybe there's something wrong with me." You can’t shake the feeling that you’re in the wrong job or that you've outgrown your current position. But when...

By Toronto Life & Mindset Alignment Coach Stephanie J. Marshall When Worst-Case Scenario Thinking Becomes a Habit If you're always bracing for the worst, you're not being realistic. You're just very committed to your rehearsal schedule. Catastrophizing isn’t a...

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach And Get On With Your Life How many hours of lost productivity are we losing to the phenomenon of overthinking work emails? If you're more concerned with how someone's going to think of you than the value...

By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach We meet many clients stuck on what the author of Breakup Bootcamp, Amy Chan, calls "The Rumination Roller Coaster." Unlike the audience for Chan's book, our rumination ride may or may not be related to an ex-lover. Let's use...

By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach Do You Really Want Work-Life Balance? A Midlife Perspective   The women we meet often find themselves juggling the diverse responsibilities of work, home, community, and family. Striving for work-life balance seems like...

By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach "But what will I come back to?" Woman tries to take a vacation: a true story Do you feel like you're watching the whole summer pass by, working your butt off while everybody else is jet-setting and swimming? Do you scroll...

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Your Thinking About the Amount of Time You Have Do you ever catch yourself slacking off and pushing everything off until tomorrow and thinking "well one day won't make a difference"? Here's the thing:...

By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach The One Where She Stopped Letting Other People's Opinions Decide Her Future "Oh! But how would that look?" You want to do something that feels bold, but you worry about other people's opinions. What will they think? It stops...

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach The Problem with Boring Problems If you've been struggling with a problem long enough to be bored by it, I guarantee that you have spent more time thinking about this problem or actively avoiding thinking...

By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach "Oh, I'm a hot mess!" Are you, though? Are you ACTUALLY any of the things you (jokingly) say about yourself? I was texting to make plans with someone this week and caught myself about to apologize for my lack of availability...

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach The Difference Between Wishing and Wanting WISHING keeps you stuck. Wishing comes from a place of helplessness, and your brain reads a wish as something you have no control over. Is your wish worthy of an...

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach "I need to stop being lazy" And other lies... Do you berate yourself for being lazy? If you are guilty of this keep reading. Here's the thing: You're not lazy, you're just being unintentionally strategic. ...

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment CoachHow I Lost Over 10 Pounds with the Alignment Framework And what it means for you if you're planning to uplevel anything this fall Mindset shifts take a little while to set in, it isn't instant...

By Nadine Araksi, Toronto-based Story Coach Feeling behind before the day even begins Do you ever wake up feeling like there's not enough time in the day to accomplish everything you need to do? It can be overwhelming to face a long list of to-dos, especially when...

By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach You Are At a Crossroads But It Might Not Be Obvious Some crossroads are obvious. Countless movies and books have been dedicated to the trials and tribulations of a heroine on the precipice of a life...