The message comes in. I start typing. I stop breathing. I am not holding my breath. I am forgetting to breathe. I have a full response written before …
Sequencing Action
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Changing Direction Changes Everything
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My calendar is full. Fuller than I want. The work is real. The effort is there. I’m doing things. Responding. Building. Producing. To the outside, it …
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Internal Urgency and External Importance
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Urgency screams. Importance waits. Here’s the paradox I have uncovered. Urgency feels internal. Importance feels external. That’s why we get them …
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The Smallest Unit of Follow-Through
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A task is not a to-do. It’s a declaration. A task is where I’ll place my focus. Right now. In this moment. On purpose. It’s the part that gets done. …
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Strategy Isn’t A Step
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Strategy isn’t action, the list, the momentum, what’s next. It’s the logic behind direction. The thinking that explains why this action, not that one. …
The Wisdom of “I Won’t”
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Figuring out what to do is impossible. We have partial data AND delayed feedback. It is impossible to figure out what to do. We do have illusions of …
Vision Has Gravity
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Imagination is wide open. It doesn’t have to be real. It doesn’t have to land. It doesn’t even have to care. Vision is different. Vision wants to …
Return on Attention
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Attention is a currency. Maybe the most valuable one I have. Maybe the only one I have. More honest than time. More revealing than feelings. More …
Everything Has a Price
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More than money. In moments. In mindshare. In meaning. Attention is what I spend when I forget I’m spending. I open an app. I scroll. I respond. I …
Routine
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Some thoughts don’t need to be solved. They need to be softened. Slowed. Dropped. Routine restores my mind. It provides it a break from me. Like …
Restraint
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My impulses feel like instructions. Urgent. Obvious. Necessary. They’re not. I don’t need more action. I need less reactions. Reflecting on my …
The Three -straints
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I thought I needed more willpower. More motivation. More discipline. I didn’t. Well, maybe sometimes I do. What I need is less. Less distortion. Less …