Perspective-Shifting Reads

• Avoiding Burnout When You Love Your Work

  December 14, 2025

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  Leadership, Personal Growth

  

  I became someone I didn’t like.

  It happened slowly—so slowly I didn’t notice until I was already there. Struggling to smile. Snapping at people who didn’t deserve it. Complaining about everything. I was unpleasant to be around, and somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew it. But I couldn’t seem to stop.

  The frustration just kept building.

  I was working harder than ever, putting in more hours, pushing myself to meet what I believed was required. The work mattered to me. I cared about it deeply. And that caring had become a weapon I was using against myself.

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• Stop Recording Your Time. Start Designing It.

  December 6, 2025

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  Leadership, Personal Growth, Technology, Tools

  

  Calendars have stopped being tools and started being tyrants.

  Digital calendars have been part of my world for decades. I don’t remember exactly when this happened. Likely, it was a long evolution. A meeting request here, a recurring sync with someone there, and eventually the blank spaces on your calendar belongs to everyone except you. The empty hour that might have been your best thinking time gets colonized by someone else’s agenda.

  What’s striking about this pattern isn’t that it happens. It’s how rarely anyone questions it. The implicit assumption in most workplaces is that an open calendar slot equals availability—that if you haven’t blocked the time, it’s fair game. And since most of us never block time for thinking, creating, or recovering, the time never gets protected.

  The result is a kind of slow-motion surrender. Your calendar becomes a ledger of what happened to you rather than a design of what you intended.

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