Of the four patterns I see most often, this is the one that looks the least like a problem from the outside — and feels the most like one from the inside.

You are not bad at sticking with things. You've just been sticking with things that were never designed to survive a bad week.

The strange thing about "everything feels urgent" is that it's almost never true — until there's no room left to be wrong about what isn't.

In the last post, I talked about capacity overload — the gap between what's coming in and what's actually sustainable. This post is about what that overload tends to produce once it's been running for a while…

The most common thing I hear from new clients is "I just need a better system." Almost none of them do. They need less on the system.

If you've ever tried to fix your "priority problem" and found that the fix didn't stick, I want to offer a different diagnosis: you didn't have a priority problem. You had a capacity problem wearing a priority problem's clothes…