In The Margins

The week is behind me. No agenda. No deliverables. No one needs anything from me for at least a few hours and I am choosing to believe that is still true even as I type this.

I've been thinking about something simple this week. The best moments in my career didn't happen in boardrooms or strategy sessions or annual planning meetings.

They happened in the margins.

The conversation in the hallway that turned into the solution nobody had found in six months of meetings. The team that stayed late not because they had to but because they wanted to see it through. The moment when something clicked and everyone felt it at the same time.

The margins are where the real work lives.

This weekend I'm going to do something I recommend to everyone who operates at a high level and rarely practices. Nothing. Intentional nothing. The kind that clears the noise and makes space for the thinking that doesn't happen when the calendar is full and the inbox is loud.

Protect your weekends like they matter. Because the version of you that shows up Monday is built on Saturday.