What if this was easy?

What a kid can teach you about all the productivity lies you tell yourself

A few years ago, I came across a mental practice that saved my sanity, my consulting firm, and my relationship with my kid — no joke.

It’s pretty simple: look at whatever complex or complicated thing you’re doing or building, or, hell, just the list of shit you have to get done in a day, and ask: what would this look like if it were easy?

Sounds easy (ha! see what I did there?), but actually, I found that it opened up new ways of looking at hot messes. As a single…