Not long ago, I caught myself getting irritated by someone at work for something that normally would not have bothered me at all. The email was fine. The comment was fine. The person was fine. But I felt my patience thin anyway. That moment made me pause, because I realized it wasn’t about them. It was about the state I was in.  (Okay, so maybe it was a little bit about them and the fact they were driving me crazy). Most people won’t say this out loud, but many are quietly th

Most people don’t wake up thinking, I should try harder today.  They wake up already tired, already behind, already running through a mental list of emails, meetings, and decisions waiting for them. And somewhere in the middle of the day, often quietly, a question shows up: Why does this feel so hard when I’m doing everything I’m supposed to be doing? I hear versions of that story everywhere. People are trying harder, caring deeply, putting in more hours, yet feeling like wor