Monday mornings, something short to sit with.

A lot of the leaders I work with are living on a promise they keep making to themselves.

Once we ship this. Once I backfill the role. Once the funding arrives. Then it’ll ease up.

You’ve made that promise for three milestones now. Each one bought a few days of relief before the next rung showed up. The calm you’re working toward stays one step ahead.

A few questions to ponder:

• What are you telling yourself will let up after the next milestone?
• Have the last few actually changed the feeling, or just reset it?
• What are you postponing until things settle, that settling was never going to deliver?

The reframe: You’ve been asking too much of the next milestone. The calm isn’t waiting there.