Tag: capacity-aware business design
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What sustainable success asks of you (that hustle never will)
I was crawling across the floor… or should I say I was trying to crawl across the floor. Everything hurt. Every muscle twitch was excruciating. Tears fell like hot lava from my face – and somehow, even THAT hurt. At best I was whimpering, at worst, outright wailing, as I made my way from the…
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Burnout Warning: When your effort outpaces your capacity
What looks like just another day “on your hustle and grind” could also be the red flags of something else that’s going to keep you stuck at a plateau indefinitely.
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When Your Brain Lies to You About Productivity
Brains love control. They crave certainty. So much so, that they’ll go about making up stories that feel like facts.
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Who are you when no one is watching?
I was sitting at my desk, doing my “usual” routine – the seemingly endless loop of “productive” things like email, writing, researching. Yet, I couldn’t shake this restless thought, pounding in my head: “Is THIS what it’s all come to in 50 years on planet earth?” This year has been a wild ride, to say…
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Conditions For Success: A simple way to measure alignment
Conditions For Success is a topic I’ve touched on in planning workshops over the years. It was inspired by a quote attributed to the Irish poet of the Victorian age, Oscar Wilde: When I saw it, I felt this desire to prove or disprove the notion. I mean, really? Can it be THAT easy? In nature, we…