Hey, friend!

I've been thinking a lot lately about the phases of life we walk through. I've been single, married, divorced, and remarried. I've been childless, had infants and toddlers, and now I have a preteen and a soon-to-be preteen. I've been an employee and an employer.

In each of these phases, my time, energy, attention, and priorities have shifted to match the unique aspect of where I am. Or at least, I have wanted to shift them.

One thing I've noticed in myself and in others, though, is that we don't always see when something has changed, and we try to get by in a new phase using what worked for us in the old phase.

Right now, I'm finding that what served me as the CTO of a company isn't always what serves me as the CEO of a company. I'm a little over a year into my new role at Tighten, and I'm still discovering the ways when I need to be prioritizing my time differently, but I'm also finding other differences I didn't expect. The conferences I benefit from are different, and also the books and podcasts. The things I'm excited to create are different. The things I want to delegate away so I can make space for what's most important is different.

So, I encourage you: pay attention to the phases you're in right now, and how they're different from where you were most recently. What serves you, your needs, your context, and your goals right now? Were you in a push-hard-try-hard and now it's time for relaxation and self care? Were you mailing it in but now you have a new potential to reach your goals if you put in a bit of extra effort? Were you focused mainly on others and now it's time to focus on yourself? Did you previously do but now you need to manage? Think about ways your current priorities and behaviors may and may not serve your current phase, and take a moment to think what may serve you better going forward.

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