🎒 TREE 204: More than work
My favourite way to start the day — the way I’m most creative and set to take on the world — involves waking up at 5 AM, going for a run, then sitting down with a cup of coffee and some toast to tackle a three-hour deep-focus piece of work.
But that never really happens. I can get the run in or a bit of work, but then the kids are up, we’re in school-run mode, and somehow it’s already 9:30 and I have to go to that meeting / answer that call / reply to that email.
Some things I can be better at — ie, I’m working to keep my email closed except for certain checkpoints.
But other parts, like the family morning routine and school run, well, they might keep me from being my most productive, but they keep me grounded and make me laugh.
We’re all more than the work we create.
This week’s guest author is Lyndsay Lucero, founder of baxleygoods.com.
Jeff: There are a lot of songs about quiet, you guys, so Depeche Mode and Quiet Riot are sitting this one out.
If you don’t like to work in silence, try The memory of TREE playlist – every song from every email: