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There's a societal belief that the 59 days of Jan and Feb are the most difficult stretch of the year for many. Let's look at some ideas to help pull through to March in a way that'll make the "August 15th us" proud.

The calendar flips, the bills arrive, the skies stay gray, routines get disrupted, and the world news can feel like a daily stress test. Add the lingering fatigue from “end-of-year everything,” and even strong, capable people can find themselves thinking: “Why does this feel harder than it should?”

Urgency is often driven by the external environment (deadlines, disruptions, complaints, crises). Priority is driven by internal clarity (values, strategy, commitments, and intended outcomes). In practical leadership terms: Urgency pulls attention. Priority directs attention.

The tech era began in Silicon Valley and as the app-for-everything shake-up shifts to lay-offs-en-masse ushered in part by AI, we won't just see the error of our ways, we'll feel it.

Pine Pollen might be the superfood of superfoods. The list of over 200 nutrients is overwhelming, but here's the upshot: protein, carbs, fats, a dozen vitamins, another dozen minerals, enzymes, polysaccharides, nucleic acids (DNA/RNA building blocks) and – to the point of this article – steroids.

The human mind prefers simplicity not because reality is simple, but because cognition is expensive. Simplicity is how the brain conserves energy.

Humans are driven and directed by stories. The more deeply we believe in and feel the veracity of the story we tell ourselves, the more we behave in a manner that will realize that narrative.

Here are some conclusions we collectively accept, but in other cultures and/or other times the opposite was standard practice.