Delegate: Embracing Pause for Better Clarity

I was sitting in my car outside a client meeting last week, scrolling through

my phone for ten minutes before going in. Not checking emails or prepping.

Just scrolling. That's when it hit me. I wasn't procrastinating because I was unprepared.

I was stalling because I hadn't given myself a single moment to breathe all day. We treat transition

time like wasted time, but our brains actually need those gaps to reset.

Now I block five minute buffers between calls and meetings. No agenda. Just space.

It sounds almost too simple, but those tiny pockets of nothing have made me sharper

in every conversation that follows. We're so obsessed with productivity that we forget clarity