Do not leave the planning to someone else and then call the final task easy.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Work that looks simple at the end usually looks that way because someone did the hard part earlier. The booking, the sequencing, the twelve small decisions and the chasing all happen out of sight, so the visible remainder seems like nothing much. Calling it easy erases the invisible half and, worse, tells the person who did it that you never saw it. Most resentment in shared work starts exactly here.

When something goes smoothly this week, ask yourself who arranged that. Thank the planning rather than the execution, and offer to take a piece of it next time.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Whose planning made a job look easy to you afterward?

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