Day 3,803

During a conversation today a teammate and I were connecting on a couple of pieces of news related to a couple of our clients. In very short order we both realized how many additional anecdotes we hadn’t shared over the past two days. By the time our conversation wrapped up I realized why my brain has felt so exhausted over the last business week…. The amount of large scale changes has been mind bendingly large in a very short period of time. The intensity of the changes are amongst the highest I’ve seen in a stretch of a couple months, let alone one week.

So what is one to do in a time like this? Hit the panic button and freak out? Pretend that all is well and don’t respond? Compartmentalize?

Over the past few hours I’ve realized just how hard I’ve been swimming against the riptide, it’s time to let go, to shift towards the side, to allow the tide to do what it will, to not push back, but to accept and adapt. Pushing harder won’t fix it, it will actually most likely drown me. Better to accept, adapt, and head for the edge – the time to swim for shore will be coming, don’t rush it.

It reminds me of this beautiful line from Golden Son by Pierce Brown:

Thanks!!!