Wednesday
A founder with could apologize for almost anything — a missed email, a rescheduled meeting, a short tone in a Slack thread — except being wrong about a decision. He’d say “I hear you” and “let’s look at the data again” and “I think we can find a better path forward,” fluent in every phrase…
You’ve called it wisdom. You’ve called it patience, or “reading the room,” or “not wanting to force it before it’s ready” — a dozen respectable labels, all covering the same plain fact: you knew the hard conversation needed to happen, and you didn’t have it. The label felt spiritual enough that you never had to…
Bruce had the whole quarter mapped before his coffee finished brewing on Wednesday morning — deliverables sequenced, dependencies flagged, the exact order he’d walk the board through on Friday. He’d run it past his CFO the night before and past his mentor over breakfast. It was a genuinely good plan. He just hadn’t taken it…
Marcus walks in the door most nights already talking — the client who pushed back, the numbers that didn’t move, the decision he’s still turning over in his head from the drive home. His wife has learned to wait her turn, which mostly never comes, because by the time his debrief winds down, the evening…
Elena’s partners at the firm call her “the closer.” Her associates call her “relentless.” Her calendar this week calls her “unavailable before 6 PM.” None of those are wrong, exactly — she earned every one of them over fourteen years. But standing at her office window at 6:45 AM, coffee going cold in her hand,…
You have a Jethro moment on your calendar this Wednesday. A task you are still doing that someone in your organization could do — better, sooner, and with more ownership. Exodus 18 says the load will crush you and them. God did not design you to carry alone.
The tiredness that hits at 2 p.m. on Wednesday is not about your schedule. It is about the source you have been running from.
The Daily CHEW™Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals Every strategic decision has a fear underneath it. The hire is a fear of the vacancy. The pass is a fear of the commitment. The restructure is a fear of the stagnation. The hold is a fear of the wrong move. You can…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s love from head to heart for Christian professionals Habits work when they ride identity. Pure willpower runs out by Wednesday. You do not change yourself into a son. You live from sonship. Behavior follows belief. Belief follows reception. CHEW with Me Clarity Name the habit you keep defaulting to under pressure.…
The Daily CHEWâ„¢Moving God’s Love from Head to Heart for Christian Professionals You are at the coffee shop Wednesday morning with a planner open, a calculator nearby, and the realization landing slow: the most productive move on your calendar this week is the one quietly costing you money. The third dinner of the week with…