The Weeks That Test Your Capacity

Some weeks I sit down to write this and I have clarity.

This week, I don’t.

There are seasons in business where the volume of work on your plate is unreasonable and completely unsustainable. You know it. Your body knows it. Your calendar definitely knows it. But when you’re in it, the only way out is through, and pretending otherwise only makes it heavier.

I’ve been building businesses for seven years.

I’ve been building systems, teams, and cultures for close to ten.

Not a long time, but not a short time either.

And if I’m being honest, some stretches don’t feel like a sprint or a marathon. They feel like a hallway where every door you open has another problem waiting behind it.

That’s been the last forty-five days here.

Every time I thought I had cleared one issue, three more showed up.

Every moment I planned to slow down, something else needed attention.

Then when I finally had time to tackle my “I’ll get to it later” list, I got sick for a week.

There’s a version of me that would try to wrap this in a lesson.

But the truth is simpler:

Leadership isn’t always about insight. Sometimes it’s endurance.

Sometimes your only job is to stay steady through a season that demands more than it should. To choose not to fall apart just because the workload is unreasonable. To honor the fact that you’re human while also honoring the commitments you’ve made.

This is the unglamorous, unfiltered middle.

The part of the path where you don’t feel wise.

You just feel tired.

And you keep going anyway.

If you’re in a season like that right now, I don’t have tips.

What I do have is truth:

Not every hard stretch is a sign you’re failing.

Sometimes it’s a sign you’re carrying more than anyone sees and the most grounded thing you can do is acknowledge it without making it mean something it doesn’t.

The work will level out.

The pressure will eventually drop.

The season will shift.

They always do.

But right now?

Some weeks you don’t have anything extra to give.

And the only honest thing left is to tell the truth about where you are and keep it moving.