On the Project of You

We are taking easy action today–here and now–to unlock the alternate ending to your life. These steps will get you in motion. The idea or craving that’s been stuck in the back of your head is going to come out into real life. The big life change you desire is going to become real.

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Your Ego Isn't the Problem — A Broken Ego Is

Nobody tells you that a broken ego is why you feel stuck. This pos reframes what a healthy ego actually means, why adults slowly let theirs atrophy, and how regrowing your ego is the first real step toward launching the dream career, project, or life change you've been putting off.

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A Makerly Mindset: Why Your Best Creative Breakthroughs Come From Messing Around

You don't need perfect tools or a perfect plan to unlock your creativity. I ran patterns with Strava on a 3.5-mile run in Wisconsin and pulled a lesson from legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins: the best breakthroughs come from messy, imperfect, tool-in-hand experimentation. Here's the makerly mindset.

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The Easy Button for Your Dream Career Is Not What You Think

Forget guru inspo weekends. In this blog post, I walk you through the actual operating system behind the Project of You: core tenets, Ikigai as a daily filter, the binder life system, infinite self-kaizen, and why protecting time as your only finite resource is the real easy button for your dream career.

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Phase One: Setting Direction

You Can Become the New 1% Today — And It Has Nothing to Do With Your Bank Account

The traditional 1% chase funds without fulfillment. Discover the new 1%: people who skip the wasted decades of blind achievement and start filling their energy bank account today — through purpose-driven work that is embarrassingly fun, bespoke to their wiring, and built to last.

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The Coffee Made Me Do It: Why I (an Introvert) Signed Up for an 8-Week Improv Class

One too-good cup of coffee and I accidentally signed up for an 8-week improv class at Greenlight Theater in St. Petersburg, Florida. Discover why stepping outside your comfort zone is the lowest-risk move you can make, the plank-in-the-bridge framework for big life change, and what time tethering actually looks like in real life.

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Feeling Stuck? Stop Thinking and Start Doing — My Cold Plunge Experiment

Feeling stuck on your big life goal? I’m sharing here my cold plunge experiment at a cold plunge and yoga party, what happened when I hit six minutes in ice-cold water, and why trying new things is the fastest way to redesign your life and build a new default mode.

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Is This All There Is? (Yes, And It's Time to Do Something About It)

That nagging feeling — is this all there is? — is not a midlife crisis. It's your gut talking. This post breaks down why that itch deserves real respect, how to reconnect with your seven-year-old self, and how to take the first practical step toward your unique legacy today.

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Gamifying Your Life Goals: How to Unlock an Alternate Ending to Your Life

Stop waiting for a perfect January 1st. Wrangle your time hijackers, build a bridge across the abyss, and master the "Project of You" using custom project management tools.

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From Side Hustle to Main Hustle: Is Your LinkedIn Your True Legacy?

Stop leaving your unique calling for Sunday night oxygen. Learn how to execute the "vast unchoosing," adopt a death ground mindset, and build your muscle for change with KindEdge.

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You Will Achieve Nothing New Without This Full Life Closet Clean-Out

Ready for a full life reset? Discover how to use Conscious Curation, Infinite Self-Kaizen, and the 5 People Rule to reclaim your energy from life's constant drains.

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I Tried a Float Spa for the First Time— Here's What Really Happened to My Brain

I tried a 60-minute sensory deprivation float spa at St. Pete Salt Works in St. Petersburg, FL. Here's what happened to my brain, my meditation state, and why float therapy is now in my wellness toolkit.

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The Downhill Roll: A Simple Bedtime Lifehack to Build Lean Mass Easily

Stop swallowing 18 pills a night. Discover the easy, real-life almond butter hack to combine creatine, ornithine, and collagen for elite sleep and muscle recovery.

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Why I Stopped Buying Microgreens at the Store (And What I Found Instead)

Most store-bought microgreens are overwatered, over-grown, and nutritionally empty. I spent over a year testing brands and landed on Bardmore Micro Greens — here's the science behind sulforaphane, polyphenols, and why chewing fresh microgreens is the only way to get the benefit.

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The Productivity Lifehack Your Brain Needs: Injecting New Energy Through Creative Quests

Boost long-term productivity and spark creative growth with this powerful mindset lifehack: break default routines with a local book crawl quest!

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The Productivity Paradox: Is Your "Busy-ness" Sabotaging Your Higher Purpose?

Are you busy or are you becoming? Discover how the Productivity Paradox stalls your biggest dreams and learn how to align your daily work with your higher purpose through the KindEdge process.

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Solve Your Stuckness - One Easy Action Lets You Know Thyself and Get in Flow via a Fun AI Deep Dive

This AI Chat Hack Gets the Magic Mirror on the Wall to Unlock Your Muted Intuition

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Ballet Class to get you Back to Ballet (or staring anew!)

A ballet class outline and video playlist for all you ex- ballet students and new ballet students of any age; this is an easy class that will get you back to ballet, especially if you're looking to mix up your workouts.

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VOTE! Help KindEdge move forth with a FREE and easy click! The MsHealth 2026 Contest for Charity

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Why You Need Totems to Navigate Major Shifts in Your Life

I developed KindEdge as the doable, real-life antidote to the decades of guru inspo that left me inspired but still rolling...

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KindEdge Concepts That Help You Create Transformative Life Change Daily

As you leap into this Project of You, you will soon discover the importance of fortifying the foundation...

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The What vs the How in Designing Big Personal Change That Actually Lasts

We often seek out retreats, seminars, spa-cations, and niche conferences in hope of getting big change in motion...

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Phase One: Setting Direction

Step 1 Video: Take This Easy Action Now Because The Future is Never

Hello Friends -Here is a video that gives an easy explanation of KindEdge Step 1 to get you in motion to make your desire...

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Phase Two: KindEdge360 Foundation for Change

Heading Home - Will it still be there? Hurricane Homelessness and Championing Chaos

Hi folks -Below I share a moment of thoughts on Friday ask I packed up my wee car and headed home to to St. Petersburg to unwrap...

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Conscious Curation clears the path toward big life change

Tuesday I recorded this video on Conscious Curation, a key concept within the KindEdge.com process to drive big life change in small steps This page was...

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A Life Gang Aft Agley - Video Guide for Self-compassion Hacks in Hard Times

I'm sharing a useful self-compassion exercise that can help us in tough times This video is casual and ad hoc as I've...

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Resilient. Not stubborn, nor stupid, nor fixed-minded. But RESILIENT AF.

Many communities in Florida just got very, very wet. Devastatingly so. I'm upbeat, not because I'm in shock or denial...

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The Angel's Share ... Final chapter in "The Adventures of Hannelore Watersmith"

The process of aging scotch yields a minute but unavoidable dip in volume as it matures. This wee disappearing dose is called...

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Phase One: Setting Direction

Step 1: A Foundation for Action

Getting big change done requires many things: vision, goals, time, resolve, information, emotional fortitude, deep purpose, tools, processes and more. The common thread that runs through...

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Naked Yoga and All the Things

When your brain gets fried by noon and you lose your focused mojo at work, you are fine.

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Welcome to The Pain Cave

Ultramarathon champion Courtney Dauwalter speaks of what she calls The Pain Cave. It is a mental device she uses to persevere through grueling days and nights covering hundreds of miles...

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About KindEdge

About KindEdge

If you have a thing trapped in your head—a more purposeful way of using your strengths, or an alternate means of expressing your passions--you have an emergency on your hands...

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The Kind Reframe

We unconsciously carry invisible burdens that weigh us down or hold us back To gain movement and momentum along my transformative journey, I needed to address the drag these burdens create...

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Why Do Humans Need Totems?

In KindEdge.com I am working to document tools I built that enabled me to implement transformational change despite the many trains in my life that had left the stations and were well in motion...

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About Mary

I grew up in Chicago and have lived in the Silicon Valley, the Carolinas, South Africa, Scotland, and now Florida. I’ve traveled to many places and I most cherish trips wherein I can blend locally...

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