Protect Your Peace: How I Do It All Without Losing Myself- Most of the Time!
Apple Podcasts 
Spotify 
Overcast 
Castro 
PocketCasts 
RSS Feed "How do you do so much?" Jacque hears it all the time. In this episode, she finally answers — and it's not what you'd expect. It's not about doing more. It's about caring about less, protecting your peace, and letting the small stuff go.
In this one:
-
Don't sweat the small stuff. The eight-inch pile of unopened mail, the junk email account with 65,000 unread messages, no paper receipts (she can find them online), 45 open browser tabs, and a virtual assistant who runs the website and marketing. If it doesn't serve the work she actually loves — the books, the dogs, the ranch — she doesn't give it her energy. Her test: will I care about this in a year? Will I care about this in a week?
-
Protect your peace. You can't care about someone more than they care about themselves. A student's progress is on the student — her job is to shorten the path, but it's their job to walk it. After a stroke and a heart attack fueled by stress and dog-world politics, she resigned from every committee, walked away for three years, and never looked back. Toxic people are out — no confrontation required. The inner circle is small, honest, and full of people who make her better. Remember the frog and the scorpion: people show you who they are. Believe them.
-
The list system. Everything she needs to do goes on a list. Deadline-driven items become calendar appointments a few days early. Each day she picks the top four or five things and crosses them off — and the stuff that never rises to the top quietly becomes irrelevant. It's not fancy: a dollar-store spiral notebook, or Google Tasks with categories for ranch, household, business, and books.
-
The jar of pennies. Every conflict, every nag, every unnecessary correction takes a penny out of your dog's jar — and your own. Start each session with a full jar and guard your pennies. (She also recommends the movie A Thousand Words.)
-
Efficiency in dog training. Pick lines that click with you, learn from people who are where you want to be, and build the relationship first — then the work gets faster.