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Tomorrow’s the day! We launch our book, Podcasting for Small Business! To celebrate, join Steve Orr and me for a live recording of our first podcast episode, where we’ll explore the book’s ideas and more. 📘 Learn more: podcastingforsmallbusiness.com 🎙️ Join us live: href="htt...

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There are no problems, only projects (per David Allen). Chasing fully automated solutions are how you get stuck (and downstream problems occur when automations inevitably break). Settle for 75-80%. That imperfect solution still saves huge time and can be iterated on over time. Action is the win.

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Reject “hustle culture” for a better kind of growth. You can be a high performer without acting like a robot.

  • Stop seeing every action as a worthiness test.
  • Incremental progress equates often to better output.
  • Consistency is great, but don’t choose it over being human.
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    In life and work, resist two traps: ⚠️ Don’t take one moment and make it a universal truth. ⚠️ Don’t treat universal truths like they apply without exception. Wisdom lives between the general and the specific. That’s where agency begins.

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    Leaders don’t burn out because they work too hard — they burn out because they never metabolize progress.

    1️⃣ Most leaders rush past their wins. 2️⃣ Celebration is leadership hygiene.

    hbr.org/2025/11/m…

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