[Journal] 4 September 2026

Hey 🙂

I’m not interested in the 9-to-5. I’m not interested in working 50, 60, 70, 80-hour weeks. I’m not interested in being busy.

What I am interested in: being effective. Doing my best work over a long period of time. Doing work that fascinates me.

That requires a different way of thinking. Here are some of the things I think about every single day to make sure I’m approaching my work the right way.

• Less is more.
• Less, but better.
• Subtracting, simplifying, leads to sanity.
• Quality over quantity.
• The law of the vital few.
• The 80/20 principle.
• 10x is easier than 2x.
• Important and NOT urgent vs. important AND urgent.
• Deep work: 20% of your time drives 80% of your outcomes.
• Sequential vs. all at once.
• The shortest path.
• The One Thing.
• The Magic of Thinking Big.
• Let your future dictate your present.
• The smallest possible audience (audience of one).
• Who, not how: working through people.
• Team performance over individual performance.

I know it’s far more likely that we add to and make things more complicated. We have to fight against that. Often the simple answer is the answer.

Over to you…

• Pick something you know you shouldn’t be doing. Delegate it. Delete it. Automate it. Get rid of it.
• Out of all the things you’re doing, what’s the one thing that ONLY YOU can do?
• Out of all the things you’re doing, if you had to pick one thing — the one thing that, if you did it, would make everything else easier or unnecessary — what would it be?

🗣️ 👀

Chris.