INSIGHTS FOR GROWTH

Thoughts on leadership, career transitions, team dynamics, and personal growth.

The Five Businesses Exercise

Even if you have zero intention of leaving your career, brainstorm five businesses you could start or buy. Not as a plan — as a perspective shift. The exercise does three things: it reminds you that your skills are valuable in contexts you haven’t considered, it reveals what’s missing in your current work, and it makes your current path feel like a choice rather than a sentence.

A glass hourglass against a pale grey background — the upper chamber nearly empty, dark sand pooled at the bottom, the last of it still falling. Text reads: "Every Minute Over 40 Hours Is Borrowed." Don Eash Coaching.

Every Minute Over 40 Hours Is Borrowed

Every minute over 40 hours is borrowed from somewhere — sleep, family, exercise, the things that actually recharge you. And the interest rate on energy debt is brutal. Unlike financial debt, it compounds invisibly. You don’t see the bill until your body or your relationships present it.

A massive moss-covered boulder in a forest, dwarfing the trees around it — ancient, settled, immovable but surrounded by open space. Text reads: "The Monster Audit." Don Eash Coaching.

The Monster Audit

Burnout is almost never caused by one thing. It’s caused by a system of patterns you built — usually with good intentions — that is now consuming you. The Monster Audit names the four most common ones. You don’t have to fight all of them at once. Just know which one is costing you the most.

Intention

Intention. The excitement of New Year's Day has settled. Now comes the real work: turning possibility into action.