Nir’s Note: This guest post is by Jenny Wood, a former Google executive who led one of the company’s biggest career programs, helping thousands take charge of their professional growth.
This was one of the clearest articulations I’ve read on the link between people-pleasing, productivity, and presence!
(Oh, and how I've been guilty in the past, too... haha)
So much of what passes for “time management” is just masked fear of disappointing others. What you’ve shown is how sovereignty and service aren’t opposites - they require each other.
In my work around Execution Intelligence, we often say: “If your calendar isn’t a reflection of your values, it’s a record of your avoidance.”
They don’t keep people out, they keep you from leaking energy in every direction, so your best work has a place to emerge. And, of course, this is so fitting with Nir's work. Love his book "Indistractable"!
“Being busy doesn’t build success. Being intentional does.”
--> That’s the whole game. And like you, I’ve found the courage to protect one’s focus is the differentiator, not just in output, but in identity.
Thank you for bringing lived experience, systems, and soul together in one piece.
To seed, build, and nurture timeless, intangible human capitals — such as resilience, trust, truth, evolution, fulfilment, quality, peace, patience, discipline, relationships and conviction — in order to elevate human judgment, deepen relationships, and restore sacred trusteeship and stewardship of long-term firm value across generations.
A refreshing take on our business world and capitalism.
A reflection on why today’s capital architectures—PE, VC, Hedge funds, SPAC, Alt funds, Rollups—mostly fail to build and nuture what time can trust.
“Built to Be Left.”
A quiet anatomy of extraction, abandonment, and the collapse of stewardship.
"Principal-Agent Risk is not a flaw in the system.
I so agree with the tip of saying “Can’t” instead of “Don’t want to.” I’m constantly looking for people to help with projects at work and I feel so much more respected and closer to people when they tell me they can’t do something, rather than they don’t want to. This post caused me to reflect on this and begin to incorporate it into my own work vocabulary. Thanks for sharing these insights!
This was one of the clearest articulations I’ve read on the link between people-pleasing, productivity, and presence!
(Oh, and how I've been guilty in the past, too... haha)
So much of what passes for “time management” is just masked fear of disappointing others. What you’ve shown is how sovereignty and service aren’t opposites - they require each other.
In my work around Execution Intelligence, we often say: “If your calendar isn’t a reflection of your values, it’s a record of your avoidance.”
Boundaries aren’t walls. They’re resonance filters.
They don’t keep people out, they keep you from leaking energy in every direction, so your best work has a place to emerge. And, of course, this is so fitting with Nir's work. Love his book "Indistractable"!
“Being busy doesn’t build success. Being intentional does.”
--> That’s the whole game. And like you, I’ve found the courage to protect one’s focus is the differentiator, not just in output, but in identity.
Thank you for bringing lived experience, systems, and soul together in one piece.
- Thane
Hello there,
Huge Respect for your work!
New here. No huge reader base Yet.
But the work has waited long to be spoken.
Its truths have roots older than this platform.
My Sub-stack Purpose
To seed, build, and nurture timeless, intangible human capitals — such as resilience, trust, truth, evolution, fulfilment, quality, peace, patience, discipline, relationships and conviction — in order to elevate human judgment, deepen relationships, and restore sacred trusteeship and stewardship of long-term firm value across generations.
A refreshing take on our business world and capitalism.
A reflection on why today’s capital architectures—PE, VC, Hedge funds, SPAC, Alt funds, Rollups—mostly fail to build and nuture what time can trust.
“Built to Be Left.”
A quiet anatomy of extraction, abandonment, and the collapse of stewardship.
"Principal-Agent Risk is not a flaw in the system.
It is the system’s operating principle”
Experience first. Return if it speaks to you.
- The Silent Treasury
https://tinyurl.com/48m97w5e
I so agree with the tip of saying “Can’t” instead of “Don’t want to.” I’m constantly looking for people to help with projects at work and I feel so much more respected and closer to people when they tell me they can’t do something, rather than they don’t want to. This post caused me to reflect on this and begin to incorporate it into my own work vocabulary. Thanks for sharing these insights!