It’s Tuesday after a long weekend… but judging by the level of quiet in my office, it still feels a little like the weekend. 😂 It’s 1 PM ET. Very few emails. No returned calls. No returned texts. And it made me think about what we’ve been working on in Suite Bootcamp: getting ready to be ready. I ended last week with a MOUNTAIN of projects on my plate. And no, I was not particularly excited about disciplining myself over a holiday weekend to get them done. But I’m a business owner with powerful goals and dreams. And I don’t just want to dream my dreams. I want to live them. Sometimes that requires sacrifice. So I made a decision: I was going to work AND play. I got very clear about what needed to get done. I’d tell myself, “Two focused hours, then you’re done.” And when the two hours were up, I stopped. I left. I played. I relaxed. I enjoyed my weekend. Then I came back and did it again. And something interesting happens when you train yourself this way: You begin to trust yourself. I give myself a command, and I follow it. There’s no endless negotiating. No sitting at my desk all day feeling guilty that I should be working while wishing I were somewhere else. Focused work. Then focused LIFE. Because we work to live. We do not live to work. Although when you love your work as much as I do… potato, potahto. 😂 By midday Monday, the mountain was gone. I had accomplished more over the long weekend than I might have accomplished in an entire scattered week not because I worked nonstop, but because I was clear, focused, determined AND relaxed. That last word matters. This morning I walked into my office with a clear mind, fired up for the week. I went straight after my prospecting goals while much of the world still seems to be easing its way back in. No judgment. Just an observation. Imagine the advantage when weeks like this begin to compound. And because my mind was clear, I had space this morning to sit down with my journal and start dreaming about 2027.