Finding Serenity in Now 💥

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Damon Brown
March 19, 2025

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Hi reader,

My longtime friend and colleague Laura Vanderkam talks about when a boiler suddenly flooded a client’s basement.

They had to rearrange everything in their very tight schedule.

Push meetings.

Squeeze in taking care of the kids.

Keep the house in order.

And what happened that week of chaos? They got every single thing done.

Somehow they managed to complete 7 days of things in the equivalent of 4 days.

Which, perhaps, they could be doing all along 🤷🏾‍♂️

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This isn’t a treatise to cram in as much as possible into your life.

As a stay-at-home dad of two young kids, leader of multiple businesses, and owner of more gray hairs than ever, I absolutely do not need more emotional labor.

Nor do you.

But what if we got the necessary things done in a shorter time?

What if we prioritized the silence, the rest, the presence of our every day life, the stuff that truly is finite, and did the remainder of the other stuff in the time in between?

It’s hard to prioritize when we’re rushing.

It’s damn near impossible when we’re on autopilot.

Do you realize that you always have a choice? ↪️

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