You've covered 10 practices. Here's what will happen to some of you: you'll finish feeling energized, take notes, and then do nothing different.

Not because you're lazy. Because you're trying to absorb 10 practices at once instead of committing to one.

The execution gap doesn't close because you know more. It closes because you do something different consistently until it becomes your new normal.

You now have 10 practices. That's nine too many for right now.

One of these 10 episodes probably made you think, "I could actually do that today." Not necessarily easier, but more aligned with how your brain works. That instinctive "yes, this could work for me" matters.

What happens in the next 24 hours determines everything. You'll either take your first step toward closing your execution gap, or you'll have another data point about what doesn't work. Either outcome moves you forward.

Choose your practice. Start in the next 24 hours. Listen now for the complete framework.

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You spent an hour creating the perfect to-do list. Three highlighters. Prioritized. Time estimates.

It left you more overwhelmed than before.

By the next day, you'd started 15 things, finished none. Playing whack-a-mole with your own business.

Then you circled just three things. Not seven, not 30. Three. The chaos vanished. You could suddenly see what actually mattered versus what just felt urgent.

When you try to tackle everything, your brain triggers survival mode. You lose the ability to distinguish between important and urgent. Everything gets the same intensity meaning nothing gets real focus.

Listen now to learn how the power of 3 forces clarity when overwhelm hits.

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How many decisions do you make in a typical day? If you guessed 50 or 100, you're off by thousands.

By 1 p.m., you can barely decide what to have for lunch even though you handled complex client work all morning. Not because you're lazy—because you've already made 200+ decisions before noon.

One Tuesday, the breakthrough came from tracking not just what you did, but how many times you had to decide what to do. No wonder you felt fried.

Decision making isn't just mental effort. It's mental fuel. Every choice depletes a finite resource. By afternoon, there's nothing left for the choices that actually matter.

The solution isn't making fewer decisions.

Find out how to conserve your decision-making capacity. Listen now.

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