Relational
28 Days of Asking: Day 23
Back in the flow today. Quarterly meeting with the team, a full day that has real shape to it. Also helps when you get a solid nine hours of sleep. The fog from Saturday night finally lifted.
Morning light through the conference room windows. Coffee going cold because the conversation kept pulling us forward. Last week in review. The week ahead taking form. Client meeting, website review, then my section: 30 days in, eyes toward 90. The data I’d pulled together last night told a clear story. Headed in the right direction. A few edges to refine. Nothing major.
By late afternoon strategy softened into happy hour. Conversation drifted to modern dating, swiping through strangers, the algorithmic search for chemistry. We laughed. Swapped stories. The kind of afternoon where the work fades and you remember these are just people in a room, enjoying each other.
But the thread all day was simpler: connection. Relationships. What it means to offer something high-stakes and high-trust. You don’t build that with tactics. You build it by showing up, again and again, until people know who you are.
Day 23: Where am I overcomplicating what’s simple?
I tend to build systems before I need them. Optimize before I’ve started. Map out twelve steps when the next one is obvious.
The review confirmed what I suspected: the work is working. The direction is right. The refinements are small. So why does my brain keep reaching for complexity?
Maybe because simple feels too easy. Maybe because I’ve spent years in roles where the answer was often more. More process, more tracking, more infrastructure.
But most of what I need to do isn’t complicated. It’s just consistent. Show up. Follow up. Stay in the conversation. Trust that relationships compound.
What’s something you’re overcomplicating right now? And what would it look like to just do the obvious next thing?
