Every Friday I'll send you a short email with one lesson from the passing week.

Not limited to agency operations. Client work, mindset, sales, fuck-ups, BGG growth, content strategy… whatever “landed” that week. One distilled insight in raw format.

Why?

It forces me to do two things:

1. Send a second newsletter each week.

I ran a poll on LinkedIn about newsletter length. The majority of you voted for 2–3 minutes. Friday feels right for this.

2. Actually reflect on the passing week.

I often feel like I'm moving and progressing faster than my brain can process. There's a million things on the list. When you work 12–14 hours a day without digesting it properly, your mind can't catch up with reality.

It feels like a hamster wheel.

Proactive reflection, I've found, is an effective mechanism to compress the "data" so your brain can process what's happening without choking itself.

Which leads me to...

Another reason we choke our brains: our to-do lists become infinitely bigger.

There's always something else that can be done. That should be done.

But "shoulds" don't necessarily lead to desired outcomes.

More to-do = more open loops = less mental capacity = less capacity for the big essential stuff.

This week has been especially back-to-back because I haven't cleaned up multiple competing priorities piling up since the start of the year.

In my mind it sounds like:

We need to write and launch a newsletter welcome sequence, we need to be faster with our YouTube launch, I need to continue doing LinkedIn sales, we need to organise agency dinners, we need to onboard new clients, I need to level up my presenting skills, I need to, I need to...

Endless.

Energy is renewable and dictates performance. Time is finite and fixed. My friend Simon Alexander Ong has a good book on this called Energize.

That's why we need to prioritise based on two things:

One framework we teach founders—which I'm applying to myself today—is called the Priority Filter.

To help them define what actually moves the needle in their business, we take them through 4 filters:

Step 1: Brain Dump
Write down everything competing for your attention. Everything.

Filter 1: Does it support your most important goal this year?
Yes or No. If no, it shouldn’t pass this filter.

Filter 2: Does it give or take energy?
Yes or No. Energy-draining tasks should be delegated or delayed unless they're essential.

Filter 3: Keep, Delegate, Delay, or Eliminate?
Be ruthless. Most things can wait. Some things shouldn't be on your plate at all.

Filter 4: Select the final 3.
Not 5. Not 10. Three.

These are your priorities for the week. Everything else is noise.

Ruthless clarity. You know what you're doing and why.

Energy. You're working on things that matter, not just things that showed up.

Space. Your brain isn't choking on 47 open loops. It can actually think.

I'm doing this exercise today. I'll let you know how it goes.

— Romans

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