The best leaders I know never skip Sunday planning. If you skip preparation, you borrow time

from your future self. And with interest, right? And then what's the interest rate on that

borrowed time? It's high. What's up, guys? Welcome back to Build. And today I want to talk about something that every leader

faces, every leader deals with, whether they are aware of it or not, which is preparing versus

repairing. This is top of mind for me because today is Monday. And I love Mondays. I love Mondays

because I feel like I get so much stuff done and I get to

walk in my week and I'm like I have already, I feel like I've already conquered the day when I walk

into Monday and the reason is not because of what happens on Monday, but it's because of what

happens on Sunday. It's because of all the time I spend in preparing my weeks, preparing so that every moment I spend

during the week is focused on executing rather than debating, deciding, or planning.

And I was thinking about this this morning because one of my newer teammates said something to me

to the degree of like, you know, I did some Sunday planning and I realized like how much more

effective I was. And I was like, oh my gosh, like who plans Monday morning? Like, what are we talking about? But then I realized,

I was like, oh, wow, this person, you know, they're newer to leadership. They haven't been in this

position before. This is something I've been doing for gosh, like a decade. And so it's something

that a lot of people don't even know exists, and that is such a fundamental

practice of leadership, right? And the thing is, is this, as leaders, we're constantly making

decisions that either set us up for success or leave us scrambling to fix problems later. And so if we

don't spend time preparing, then by consequence, we just spend time repairing. It's like if we don't

take the time to plan, we have to take the time to fix.

And the cost of repair, whether it's going to be wasted time, whether it's damaged relationships,

whether it's lost trust or lost opportunities, is far higher than the time that we could

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