I got sick in the middle of our busiest quarter about ten year ago. Nothing dramatic, just the kind of sick where you’re down for four or five days and genuinely cannot function. I handed off what I could, sent a few messages, and told myself the team had it. When I came back, I […]
By the time March arrived, something had shifted. Not in a dramatic, everything is solved way. More in the quiet sense that comes when you stop forcing answers and let them surface on their own. That feeling was new for me, and it made this year’s approach to personal annual planning feel fundamentally different from […]
In January, I wrote about why I stopped planning my year at the start of the calendar. I shared how listening to a short video from Verne Harnish reframed my thinking around timing, seasons, and the pressure to lock in personal annual planning before the coffee is even cold on January 2nd. That post resonated […]
Every January, I used to sit down with my notebook, a strong coffee, and a stack of goals waiting to be written. It felt like what leaders are supposed to do. You wrap one year, reflect for a day or two, and jump straight into planning the next one before the ball has even hit […]
For most of my career, growth was the goal. More revenue. More clients. More responsibility. More opportunity. Growth was the scoreboard, and if the numbers were moving in the right direction, everything else felt justified. At least that is what I told myself. It took me years to realize that growth is never free. It […]