Hey 🙂 I’ve pretty much accepted I’m not a gym guy. I tried to be. But, I never was a sports person, and I’ll never be in love being there. I only started going to the gym in my 40s. But I know I have to go, and because I know I have to go, I’ve made myself actually think...

Hey 🙂 I just got back from a week off with the kids and the family, and if you’ve ever come back from time off, you know the feeling — you’ve got to deliberately shift gears back into work mode. It doesn’t just happen automatically. So the first thing I did this week was a full capture. If you’ve not...

Hey 🙂 I was doing my weekly 3-1-3 this morning and I ended up spending way more time than usual thinking about something uncomfortable. Not about the business. About me. Specifically: what’s the thing I’m resisting? The weak spot, the gap, the bit of self-awareness I keep avoiding because looking at it straight on is uncomfortable. Whatever that thing is...

Hey 🙂 I took a week off work this week to spend some time with the family. I think it’s probably quite easy to assume that the 3-1-3 doesn’t really have a place on a holiday week, but what’s interesting is that I’ve been journaling in the mornings about: At the end of the day, I’m looking back and seeing:...

Hey 🙂 Here’s the thing about the 3-1-3: everybody reading this knows they should do it. Some of you won’t. So that’s your challenge this week — overcome your own resistance and find the 10-15 minutes to do the right thing. A week is exactly the right amount of time for things to get slightly off track. For you to...

Hey 🙂 We’re heading into August now, and one of the things I think about a lot, month to month, is how we get a little bit better. Not a big overhaul — just tightening things up, getting clearer on priorities, and being a bit smarter than we were the month before. This month, one of the things we did...

Hey 🙂 It’s Friday, which means it’s time for the 3-1-3. My experience this week was interesting. There were a number of projects all in different stages, and when I looked back on the week, I asked myself the prompt I always start with: What does progress look like this week? I looked at my calendar, and my immediate thought...

Hey 🙂 Here’s my biggest lesson from this week, looking back across it. I said yes to something that doesn’t fit with our future strategy. And here’s the thing — a few months ago, we’d have said yes to this without a second thought. It wouldn’t even have registered as a decision. Now, with a plan in place, it should...

Hey 🙂 Something funny happened to me while I was doing my 3-1-3 this week. The first thing that showed up was a bit of resistance. A little voice going: do I really need to do this? I feel on top of things. Everything feels clear. And that’s exactly the trap. That’s the insidious thing about any discipline — you...

Hey 🙂 Since the start of the year, I’ve added a new ritual to the way I manage tasks, projects, and work in general. For me it’a ninety-day rule — though honestly, you could probably be a lot more harsh with this if you wanted to. Sixty days would work. Forty-five if you really want to dial it in. This...

Hey 🙂 The more successful you become as a CEO, the more your calendar slowly turns from a maker’s schedule into a manager’s schedule. More meetings. More people who need five minutes of your time. More things that feel urgent. And almost none of it chosen deliberately — it just accumulates. And the cost of that isn’t yours to carry...

Hey 🙂 I’ve been thinking a lot this week about seasons — and how differently we can live through them depending on whether we let them just happen to us, or whether we get deliberate about them. If you’ve got kids, you know exactly what I mean. Terms, mid-term breaks, summer holidays — clear seasons, whether you like it or...