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Business Anchors

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Story - State - Strategy - Scale

Four anchors that open the doors to vitality.

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Locus of Control

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Pull It Together

Toggle your locus of control.

Topics:

#energymanagement

#focus

#innergame

#regulation

#steadystate

October 25, 2024

5

min read

Make stuff people want.

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

80% Them, 20% You

A formula for publishing / making stuff people want.

Topics:

#designthinking

#founderjourney

#mvp

#startup

#venturedesign

September 30, 2024

2

min read

Startup Snapshot Report on "The Untold Toll" of founders.

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

The Untold Toll

The paradox of startup passion and pain.

Topics:

#burnout

#energymanagement

#founderjourney

#founders

#innergame

August 23, 2024

3

min read

Fall in love with the problem

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Founder = Problem

Fall in love with YOU being the problem!

Topics:

#calling

#blocks

#founderflow

#founders

#performance

July 26, 2024

3

min read

Monk Mode Support

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Monk Mode Support

Structured ways to sit without distraction.

Topics:

#focus

#innergame

#untappedpotential

#calling

#performance

June 28, 2024

2

min read

Intensity Container

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Intensity Container

Engineer pressure cooker circumstances to move the needle.

Topics:

#energymanagement

#founderflow

#focus

#innergame

#productivity

May 24, 2024

3

min read

energy management, co-regulation, burnout

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Catastrophic Loss of Qi

The black swan of energy management.

Topics:

#burnout

#energymanagement

#innergame

#founderjourney

#regulation

April 23, 2024

3

min read

Get unstuck. Work with your blocks. Rewire over reframing.

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Antidotes to your blocks.

Negative emotions cannot be resolved with positive ones.

Topics:

#blocks

#burnout

#energymanagement

#innergame

#positivepsychology

March 29, 2024

2

min read

Stacking No.

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

The "No" Stack

The only productivity stack you'll ever need.

Topics:

#performance

#energymanagement

#productivity

#founderflow

#focus

March 15, 2024

1

min read

burnout

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Don't Burnout While Starting Up!

Burnout needs new remedies for those on their own.

Topics:

#burnout

#energymanagement

#startup

February 16, 2024

5

min read

#founderproductfit

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Founder-Product Fit

The deepest work of your startup.

Topics:

#calling

#founderproductfit

#founderjourney

#innergame

#venturedesign

January 19, 2024

5

min read

Lifestyle Founders

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Unicorns, Zebras and Panthers...Oh My!

A new venture creature to spot.

Topics:

#founderjourney

#fractionalfounders

#unicorns

#creators

#founders

December 15, 2023

3

min read

#beliefsystems

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Untapped Belief Pyramid

Thawing the iceberg of belief.

Topics:

#innergame

#founderjourney

#untappedpotential

November 17, 2023

3

min read

flow playbook

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Design your own flow playbook

Do more, with ample energy, in less time.

Topics:

#founderflow

#designthinking

#flowplaybook

October 17, 2023

3

min read

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Flow follows Focus, Focus follows the Eyes.

Our innate human ability to concentrate is becoming a rarefied skill.

Topics:

#flowstates

#focus

#founderflow

June 1, 2020

5

min read

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Finding that sweetspot of mastery in the flow channel

Flow will be the most important 21st century skill for knowledge workers.

Topics:

#flowstates

#founderflow

#flowchannel

#csziksentmihaly

May 1, 2020

5

min read

image of an eye

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Amena Lee Shlaikjer

Momentum’s Catapult

Scrap that overly complicated morning routine and just get going.

Topics:

#morningroutine

#founderflow

#flowstates

April 1, 2020

5

min read

UNTAPPED

TOOLKIT

Tools for better thinking and deeper sensing.

A collection of design sensing tools and models to help you explore your inner world, sense into new realities, overcome limitations, expand your beliefs, and set up systems for more flow.

Explore the toolkit

01
Know
Thyself
Be more self-aware about your gaps and potential.
02
Shift
Internally
Begin to embody a new way of showing up.
03
Struggle Gracefully
Work through stuck points to propel forward.