Execution requires choosing what deserves less attention.

RESILIENCE

WHAT THIS MEANS

Everything cannot receive full attention, and pretending otherwise means the important parts get the same care as the trivial ones. Execution is largely a series of decisions about what will be done adequately so that something else can be done well. Choosing what to neglect is a skill.

Before your next project, name what you are deliberately doing at seventy percent. Making the choice consciously is what protects the parts that actually determine the outcome.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What could you deliberately do worse this week in order to finish?

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