Why bother

We drift through days, reacting to notifications and urgent but unimportant demands. The schedule fills itself. The to-do list grows. We diligently execute plans we never consciously chose. Intentionality is the antidote to drift. It’s deciding where your...

Win your day, everyday

There’s possibly nothing worse than feeling busy all day—attending meetings, handling requests—yet failing to complete what you planned. The issue isn’t lack of time or ability. It’s your failure to plan realistically. Why believe your double-digit...

Selective memory

Bombarded by data, our brains perform an astonishing feat. Research reveals we process about 34 gigabytes of information during our waking hours – equivalent to watching 100,000 words scroll by each day (reading an entire novel or scrolling through nearly 3,000...

Switch tax

The average knowledge worker switches between 13 different apps per hour. That’s 13 context shifts, 13 mental resets, and 13 opportunities for distraction. Microsoft’s research shows each switch takes 23 minutes to regain full focus. The math is brutal...

When you stop to think

Bill Gates would vanish into the woods for a week each year during Microsoft’s peak. No emails. No meetings. Just books and deep thinking. But this wasn’t casual reading. While others devoured business books searching for success formulas, Gates hunted for...