--- title: Leadership, Culture, Impact | Active Choices, Inc. | Anese Cavanaugh | The IEP Method® | Self-Awareness (6) description: Self-Awareness | Featuring articles and resources from the founder of the IEP Method®, Anese Cavanaugh, and the team at Active Choices, Inc. Subscribe today and tap into thought leadership, culture optimization tips, and best practices for organizations dedicated to creating authentically Positive Energy Workplaces and maximizing performance and impact. 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With the best of quiet intentions we say we want to have a good day, create a great meeting, take care of our bodies, be an awesome partner in relationship (or parent, spouse, friend, etc.), show up as a solid leader, and rock our results. And then life happens.    We get "busy," we start our day answering emails (getting sucked into other peoples' intentions), our schedule slips, we run late, we spend big cycles trying to catch up and recover from each meeting, we have multiple demands, and we forget to be present. Before you know it, we're overwhelmed, the day is gone, it's 8 p.m. and all we can wonder is "What were my original plans?" and "Where did the day go?" and "Hand me the remote." [Read More ›](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/how-to-make-busy-and-overwhelm-work-for-you) In [Self-Awareness](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/self-awareness)/ [from Anese](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/from-anese)/ [Showing Up, IEP Method](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/showing-up-iep-method) [![](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/hubfs/IMG_1360.jpeg)](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/side-out-creating-our-experience-at-work-at-home-and...-on-the-volleyball-court) January 29, 2019  by [Anese Cavanaugh](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/author/anese-cavanaugh) ## [Side Out! Creating Our Experience at Work, at Home, and... on the Volleyball Court](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/side-out-creating-our-experience-at-work-at-home-and...-on-the-volleyball-court) Last year I wrote a piece about “holding your space” in chaos. I wrote that piece sitting at a volleyball tournament rebooting between bouts of feeling tortured by “no coffee or food allowed on site,” a wicked early wake-up call on a weekend, a long-ass drive, a cold-ass gymnasium, screaming parents and whistles, and confusing scheduling. All of which resulted in my cumulative snarkiness. (I won’t even mention “their’s” ;-)). [Read More ›](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/side-out-creating-our-experience-at-work-at-home-and...-on-the-volleyball-court) In [Self-Awareness](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/self-awareness)/ [IEP Method](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/iep-method)/ [Engagement](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/engagement)/ [Work-Life Balance](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/work-life-balance) [![](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/hubfs/Images%20for%20Blog,%20Landing%20Pages,%20Email,%20etc./Anese%20Speaking.jpg)](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/time-is-of-the-essence-taking-back-your-time) December 11, 2017  by [Anese Cavanaugh](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/author/anese-cavanaugh) ## [TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE: TAKING BACK YOUR TIME.](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/time-is-of-the-essence-taking-back-your-time) Time is of the essence, but YOU have to make it and take it back. Here’s how.   It’s a Tuesday morning. My newly drivers’ licensed son has just taken off for school, and my daughter’s finding her way out of bed. Our dog, eyes glued to my face, begs for breakfast. My assistant will be here in an hour, and I have six meetings today, all on camera. I’m not dressed (though I’ve brushed my teeth!), and I have company coming for dinner, with no clue what to serve. A workout sometime today would be awesome. I have to pee. And I’m sitting here typing this article — with, I might add, no business typing this article. Why? No time. But “she” stood up and said, “Enough! It’s *my* time now.” The article—or is it my muse?—has demanded the keyboard. And if I’ve learned nothing else about writing over the last couple of years, when she “asks,” I type. [Read More ›](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/time-is-of-the-essence-taking-back-your-time) In [Self-Awareness](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/self-awareness)/ [Energy Leadership](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/energy-leadership) [![](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/hubfs/mobile_uploads/hubspot-upload-14.jpg)](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/times-not-just-money-its-your-credibility) December 11, 2017  by [Anese Cavanaugh](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/author/anese-cavanaugh) ## [Time’s Not Just Money, It’s Your Credibility](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/times-not-just-money-its-your-credibility) You think it’s just “time” you’ve lost, or that you need more of, but what does it really cost you? [Read More ›](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/times-not-just-money-its-your-credibility) In [Self-Awareness](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/self-awareness)/ [Energy Leadership](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/topic/energy-leadership) [![](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/hubfs/2016-4.jpg)](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/13-anchors-to-ground-you-in-2017-and-a-personal-share) January 4, 2017  by [Anese Cavanaugh](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/author/anese-cavanaugh) ## [13 Anchors to Ground You in 2017 (and a Personal Share)](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/13-anchors-to-ground-you-in-2017-and-a-personal-share) For any of you who know me, you know that every year, at the end of the year, I send out a list of [questions](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/do-not-go-into-the-new-year-without-these-7-things) for [reflection](https://blog.anesecavanaugh.com/uncategorized/reflecting-intending-2015) of the closing year, intentions for the new year, and a [share](https://www.instagram.com/p/BOsCV3OBTcBY12CQFHMZHr6UlX50emNJdEN-Y00/?taken-by=anesecavanaugh) of some of my own greatest learnings. I love doing it and it feels like an important ritual that grows me in different ways each time. If you're familiar with this process, or are on my [mailing list](http://iep.io), you likely also know that every year, I say the year was BIG. Rich. Educational. Serendipitous. Painful. Delightful. Always learning from both. Always expansive (if I let it be). My heart, soul, and brain integrating as I go. This annual ritual serves me, those I love and lead, and the incoming year, very well. 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