I can over plan with the best of them. Daily plan, weekly plan, monthly plan, and a yearly plan. All the plans. I live in my calendar and MSTD. I often feel like Jed Bartlett asking, “What’s next?”

Something we rarely discuss but need to accept… not every good thing in our business needs to be engineered.

We’ve all had it happen. You don’t feel like making calls, but you force yourself to do it. Seemingly out of nowhere, you have an amazing call that changes the trajectory of the day, week, month, or even year. 

It’s sorta like when they tell you the best way to find love is not to look for it. Sometimes, when we stop trying so hard on our desks, things have room to fall into place and surprise us. 

You’re on the phone with a candidate you can’t use, and they casually mention they’re building out a new division and have no recruiting support. You’re listening to a hiring manager complain about internal politics, and it changes how you prep all your candidates moving forward. Maybe a search falls off at the offer, but you celebrate anyway with the candidate, and they give you openings at their new company.

These aren’t feel-good moments, they’re signals. Inflection points. And they don’t come when you force things, they come from spaciousness. 

Are you leaving enough openings in your day for things like this to happen?

As a master of efficiency and productivity, I’m telling you to slow down a bit and see what shows up for you. I promise you won’t be disappointed.