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Want to save time? Lean into presence.

ByBrad Farris April 22, 2025April 21, 2025

You’ve got too much to do and not enough time to do it in. As a result, you’re scanning your inbox, firing off decisions, jumping from one meeting to the next. It feels productive, like you’re getting things done. But at the end of the day, you’re spent—and somehow, your inbox has more emails than it did…

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Email Archive | leadership | People

Time is the only thing you have to spend.

ByBrad Farris January 14, 2025January 13, 2025

As you sit down to plan your day, you have some choices to make… You can spend your time on “sure things,” tasks you know how to do and are confident you can complete today. That feels good (I got something done), but you have no leverage on that time. You do one hour’s work;…

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What does it mean to make people better?

ByBrad Farris December 10, 2024December 9, 2024

“Explain how being authentic and present will lead to better results. Why is that so powerful? Why is it enough?~ A confused client One of my clients challenged me with this question some weeks back, and I’ve been working on developing a good answer! Here’s where I’ve come to so far–I’d love to hear what…

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Without focus I can’t succeed

ByBrad Farris October 29, 2024October 28, 2024

I scheduled too many things today. Mondays are for thinking and writing, and I knew I had a lot to think about and at least one thing to write about. But two calls had slipped into my schedule. No, that’s not true. I said “Yes” to two calls today. That would have been OK, but…

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Email Archive | leadership

When I was in high school, I loved calculus.

ByBrad Farris May 14, 2024July 5, 2024

Every calculus problem was like a brain teaser. There was always a trick or method that could simplify this big, messy equation — I just had to find it. As the class progressed, I learned more and more “tricks” to solve “messier” equations. It felt like magic and I was becoming a wizzard! But here’s…

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A busy calendar is the death of creativity

ByBrad Farris March 21, 2023July 5, 2024

“A busy calendar is a death of creativity.” ~ Naval Ravikant When Naval was running Angellist his calendar was booked end to end with meeting after meeting. Everyone who’s run even a small enterprise knows what kind of meetings these are. CEOs are in meetings to either make high-stakes choices between uncertain options or deal…

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Email Archive | leadership | strategic planning

Are you too busy?

ByBrad Farris January 10, 2023July 5, 2024

I was at a holiday party last month, and it was full of agency owners. As I walked through the crowd, I must have heard this snippet of conversation a dozen times. “How are you?” “Oh, I’m so busy, just slammed. It’s really overwhelming…” Each time I heard it, I got more disturbed. Why do…

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Email Archive | leadership | strategic planning

What is enough?

ByBrad Farris January 5, 2023July 5, 2024

In the last three years, I’ve worked with several founders who made their businesses smaller, intentionally. Their businesses had grown in ways that became a burden. For some, it was generating the work to cover everyone’s salaries. For others, their size created a firm that was no longer a fit for the work they loved…

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Creating your ideal week
Email Archive | People | team

Creating your ideal week

ByBrad Farris May 12, 2022July 5, 2024

Once your priorities are clear, getting your calendar to align with those priorities is the next step to getting your work done. One way to start reshaping your calendar is to wipe the slate clean and create a template for an ideal week. By starting with a blank slate, you can schedule your most important…

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Email Archive | leadership

When do you get YOUR work done?

ByBrad Farris May 10, 2022July 5, 2024

Last week we talked about focusing on your job, the things that are only yours to do. When I see agency owners getting clear that they start to get free of many tasks that were draining energy from them, and that didn’t move the agency forward either. Theoretically, that should free up a lot of…

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