Going dark

We schedule meetings with remarkable precision. Thirty minutes to review slides. Fifteen minutes for a coffee catch-up. An hour blocked for “strategy” that becomes an email processing session interrupted by Slack notifications and the third “quick...

Color-coded action

What gets scheduled gets done, but only if we protect what we schedule. We block time for others effortlessly. Client calls, team meetings, coffee conversations. Yet the work that moves our business forward? The strategic thinking that creates value? We leave it to...

Being still v standing still

A story is told that Walter Massa, an Italian winemaker from Tortona, offered this distinction: “We shouldn’t stand still. We should be still.” A subtle difference. One you likely caught immediately. Standing still suggests paralysis. Frozen by...

The energy reserve

Your neighbor doesn’t think about watering their garden. Same time. Every morning. The sprinklers come on, soak the beds, feed the grass. No decisions. No fatigue. Just growth. We do this too, but only in fragments. Wake up. Coffee. Shower. Dress. Eat. Drive....

Restoration

The calendar gives us this peculiar gift. A week suspended between the urgency of December and the ambition of January. Most of us don’t plan it—it simply arrives. The mornings stretch longer. The walks happen without an agenda. The mind, finally permitted to...