The Work+Life Harmony Newsletter

Years ago, I read The Miracle Morning. The promise? Transform your life before 8 a.m. by doing six specific activities every morning: silence (meditation), affirmations, visualization, exercise, reading, and journaling. Ten minutes each. So I did it for 60 days straight. By the end, I was in an e...

by Megan Sumrell — Feb 22, 2026

The Real Cost of Your Meetings

A company once asked me to help them improve operational efficiency. What I uncovered shocked everyone. Over 40% of their salary budget was being spent on people sitting in meetings. Not building products. Not serving customers. Meetings. And most of those meetings didn't even need to happen. The...

by Megan Sumrell — Feb 15, 2026

Should You Actually Use Pomodoro?

Ever tried the Pomodoro technique and thought, "Why is this making me more anxious instead of more productive?" For those unfamiliar, here's how it works: set a timer for 25 minutes, do focused work, then take a mandatory five-minute break when the timer goes off. After four rounds, you take a lo...

by Megan Sumrell — Feb 08, 2026

How to Stop Losing Focus

You sit down to finally tackle that project. You're ready. Focused. Determined. Then your password doesn't work. So you open your password manager and see five urgent breach notifications. Better handle those now or you'll forget, right? That leads you to your email, where you spot the updated ba...

by Megan Sumrell — Feb 01, 2026

My Top 3 Digital Tools

Take a second and count how many apps you use to store digital information. Your notes app, to-do app, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, email folders, text messages, multiple photo apps. Most people are storing information in 12 or more different digital places. Then, when you need that PDF, docu...

by Megan Sumrell — Jan 25, 2026

The Real Reason You Keep Self-Sabotaging

I need to tell you about my secret weapon: Mindi Huebner, my personal mindset coach. And before you think this is going to be some toxic positivity pep talk about gratitude journals and thinking happy thoughts, it's not. This is about understanding what's actually happening in your brain when you...

by Megan Sumrell — Jan 18, 2026

How to Stop Saying Yes When You Mean No

Can I tell you something I'm still working on myself? I'm a recovering people pleaser. And if you're reading this thinking, "oh good, it's not just me," then welcome to the club. We have meetings every Friday night. Except most of us say yes to other things on Friday nights, even though we'd rath...

by Megan Sumrell — Jan 11, 2026

How to Choose Your Planning Tools for 2026

Every time a new year rolls around, my inbox fills up with messages from women sending me pictures of planners, asking "Should I get this one?" or "Will this help me finally get organized?" And I get it. You're scrolling through social media seeing ads for every organizational tool under the sun,...

by Megan Sumrell — Jan 04, 2026

How to Actually Make 2026 Different

It's almost 2026, and I'm guessing you've already started thinking about what you want to accomplish next year. Maybe you've got some goals brewing. Some things you want to change. Maybe you're feeling that familiar mix of hope and skepticism that comes with a new year. "This year will be differe...

by Megan Sumrell — Dec 28, 2025

How to Actually Enjoy Your Vacation

Have you ever gone on vacation and spent the first couple days just recovering from the stress of getting out the door? And then when you got home, thought, "I need another vacation just to recover from this one"? Yeah. Me too. With the holidays this week and travel season in full swing, I want t...

by Megan Sumrell — Dec 21, 2025

Don't Skip These 2 Things Before 2026

We're at the end of another year, and I'm seeing it everywhere: people are ready to just shut the door on 2025 and start fresh with a clean slate in 2026. I get it. There's something appealing about forgetting the last 12 months and focusing only on what's ahead. But when we're so quick to just m...

by Megan Sumrell — Dec 14, 2025

Willpower Won't Make You Productive

People tell me all the time, "You must just have more willpower than I do." Or they say their biggest challenge with productivity is that they "just don't have the willpower" to do hard things or make the changes they want to make. Can I tell you something? That's not how willpower works. And onc...

by Megan Sumrell — Dec 07, 2025

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