Cat Mulvihill

Create your own ripple effect

Maybe you’ve experienced this before. You start making positive changes in one area of your life and suddenly other changes feel easier, too. I believe there are multiple factors at play, but I want to focus on one today: foundations. You may have heard about foundational habits. The good habits that facilitate other good habits. Like how getting a full night’s sleep and feeling rested helps you make better decisions, be more alert, present, and balanced. As I was preparing to film this...

27 days ago • 3 min read

a woman covering her face while looking at a laptop

Are high expectations keeping you stuck?

They can be a blessing and a curse. High expectations. On the one hand, they can push you to raise the bar and expect more from yourself. On the other hand, they can be crippling and halt your progress. If you’re not careful, high expectations can turn into outsized and unrealistic expectations that raise the stakes too much. Suddenly, they feel out of reach and risky. I recently realized this was happening to me with my new YouTube channel. My expectations became too high, and I kept putting...

about 1 month ago • 1 min read

The answer might surprise you

I was just in time to avoid the storm. Within an hour of arriving at my parents’ house this past weekend, the snow started and then kept falling. We weren’t going anywhere. So in between catching-up and watching a movie, I set aside some time to reflect on a current challenge I’d been facing. You see, while I’ve never been more clear on the concepts I want to teach, I was struggling to clarify which content gets made in which order, and for what platform. I opened a blank page and ended up...

about 1 month ago • 2 min read