Nothing to Add, and That’s the Point

Burnout doesn’t always come with sirens. Sometimes it’s just a quiet voice in your head saying, “I don’t care about synergising another damn thing.”

Not today. Not this week. Maybe not ever again.

It’s not dramatic. It’s just a deep, cellular-level tiredness of trying to be insightful, strategic, motivational, and always so very on brand.

Today I don’t want to optimise anything. I don’t want to vision-board a bold future. I want to read something pointless. Possibly stupid. Ideally, with dragons or a celebrity breakup.

I want to forget what a stakeholder is.

And maybe you do too.

Because let’s be honest — some days, this whole management/leadership/culture thing feels like juggling cats on a tightrope. Blindfolded. In a wind tunnel. And if history is anything to go by, we’re not fixing the whole thing with a new acronym, a half-day workshop, or another round of “Let’s circle back.” Not in the short term, anyway.

So that’s why I’ve got nothing much for you in this week’s newsletter. No top tips, no framework, no fresh take on how to hold a better meeting. Just this:

You’re allowed to feel tired.

You’re allowed to step back.

You’re allowed to be a brilliant, capable person who doesn’t want to fix the world today.

Tomorrow, maybe. But not today.