Jay FeitlingerPersonal Archives - Jay Feitlinger https://jayfeitlinger.com/category/personal/ Fueling Ambition. Achieving Results Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:37:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://jayfeitlinger.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Jay-Feitlinger-Icon-Logo-32x32.png Personal Archives - Jay Feitlinger https://jayfeitlinger.com/category/personal/ 32 32 100736964 The Business That Only Moves When You’re Watching https://jayfeitlinger.com/business-only-moves-when-youre-watching/ https://jayfeitlinger.com/business-only-moves-when-youre-watching/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:16:12 +0000 Jay Feitlinger https://jayfeitlinger.com/?p=21686 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 […]

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]]> 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 […]

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]]> https://jayfeitlinger.com/business-only-moves-when-youre-watching/feed/ 0 21686 Why I’m Ready to Plan Again https://jayfeitlinger.com/why-im-ready-to-plan-again/ https://jayfeitlinger.com/why-im-ready-to-plan-again/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:36:28 +0000 Jay Feitlinger https://jayfeitlinger.com/?p=20589 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 […]

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]]> 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 […]

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]]> https://jayfeitlinger.com/why-im-ready-to-plan-again/feed/ 0 20589 The Space Between Seasons https://jayfeitlinger.com/the-space-between-seasons/ https://jayfeitlinger.com/the-space-between-seasons/#respond Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:22:59 +0000 Jay Feitlinger https://jayfeitlinger.com/?p=20586 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 […]

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]]> 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 […]

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]]> https://jayfeitlinger.com/the-space-between-seasons/feed/ 0 20586 Stop Planning Your Year in January https://jayfeitlinger.com/stop-planning-your-year-in-january/ https://jayfeitlinger.com/stop-planning-your-year-in-january/#comments Sat, 17 Jan 2026 00:20:38 +0000 Jay Feitlinger https://jayfeitlinger.com/?p=20583 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 […]

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]]> 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 […]

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]]> https://jayfeitlinger.com/stop-planning-your-year-in-january/feed/ 1 20583 Why It Took Me Years to Understand What Growth Actually Costs https://jayfeitlinger.com/why-it-took-me-years-to-understand-what-growth-actually-costs/ https://jayfeitlinger.com/why-it-took-me-years-to-understand-what-growth-actually-costs/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:39:25 +0000 Jay Feitlinger https://jayfeitlinger.com/?p=20644 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 […]

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]]> 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 […]

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