Perspective ยท 3 min

Zoom out one year

A short change of timescale. It does not make the thing unimportant; it makes it sized.

How to do it

  1. Name the thing in one sentence.

  2. Ask what you will remember about it in a year: the outcome, the way you handled it, or nothing.

  3. Ask which of those you can influence today.

  4. Do the smallest version of that, and leave the rest.

A year from now you will mostly remember how you were, not how it resolved.