Three days a week, I sit in a chair and let a machine do what my kidneys cannot.
That is not new information. What is new is that the last few weeks included more sessions than usual. I am back on schedule now. I am not looking for sympathy. I am telling you because what happened while I was down is worth your time.
When your margin disappears, clarity shows up.
Not the inspirational kind. The uncomfortable kind. The kind that makes you look at how you have been operating and ask whether the man running the business is the same man who sat in church last Sunday. Whether the faith that is real on the weekend is actually governing anything from Monday through Friday. Or whether, if you are honest, the two men barely recognize each other.
That gap has a name. I have been writing about it for months, and this week I finally published the full framework. It is called Eliminate Drift, and it is the most complete thing I have put in writing about what causes good men to lose ground slowly and what it actually takes to stop it. Not motivation. Not a morning routine. Architecture. The kind that holds when the circumstances stop cooperating.
You can read it here: Eliminate Drift: A Complete Guide for Faith-Driven Leaders
Start there. It will tell you more about what this letter is for than anything else I could write in this space.
The question for this week: Where is the gap between your Sunday convictions and your Monday operating system costing you something right now? Name it specifically, not generally.
If you have an honest answer, reply with it. I read everyone.