Not everything that feels urgent is important.

Urgency is loud and it borrows importance it has not earned. This is a way of telling the two apart.

Try this · 4 min

Widen the frame

Four minutes to put a problem back at its real size. It does not solve it.

Reflect

Something useful3 MIN READ

Worry has no sense of scale. Perspective is mostly the work of restoring it.

If this keeps coming up

If distance keeps being the thing you need, a few days of it helps more than one afternoon.

5 DAYS

Five days of putting a problem back to its real size. Useful when one thing has taken over everything.