You have a lot of things to do. Some of them you want to do, some of them you think you “should” do. Should is a poison word where you feel obligation without the motivation. How do you recognize this resistance that is a governor on your success and feeling of fulfillment?

When designing systems, process, and products, the operating duty cycle is key to ensure the design is robust to hold up to the operational demands and environment. It won’t last as long if it’s at 100% all of the time and neither do we as people. Keeping our operating level around 60-70% allows for personal surge capacity to rise to challenges with fresh minds. What’s your current operating level?