If you have been following along, you've likely noticed that I have been gesturing towards a new movement happening here at Monk Manual. Our tools aren't going away. We are just going deeper. We want to help people build a new foundation for their time and work, and by extension a new foundation for their life. Across my work with individuals over the past 8 years, a pattern has emerged. The real work for individuals is not time management. The real work for individuals is time leadership. "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things" - Peter Drucker Moving forward, as we enter into the early phases of a new industrial revolution through AI, the Monk Manual exists to provide an alternative to commodity-based time and work. We want to provide a bridge for people to move from a life built for machines, to a life built for humans. This feels timely and important. We've just released the foundational videos for TimeWise in the classroom. I hope you'll take some time to check them out. Link underneath. https://www.skool.com/being-doing-club-6723/classroom/f3535435?md=2d1d48db46b941569119aac6e73ef32d Let me know what resonates below. This is the beginning of something new.

Somehow missed the transition to this platform from the Facebook group (I’d wondered why it had got so quiet!). Glad to reconnect w fellow monk manual-ers!

Hello! The recording of the TimeWise Workshop is up in the classroom. Comment here with your insights or clarity from the workshop!

At the end of the TimeWise “Slow Down to Speed Up” workshop, Steve mentioned that two ounces of reflection is often better than 2 tons of doing. When I think of year in review, I think of all the categories of personhood (social, emotional, spiritual, financial, etc.) and how long it takes to think through each category. You may have seen a year in review structured this way. It seems reflection operates on different principals than I am used to, and one of those is potency. Think about food coloring, vanilla extract, or a laser pointer. The Q&A reflection of the first TimeWise workshop is only thirty minutes, but the connections which emerge from that short time of meditation on 2025 is really incredible. In fact, having 40+ days of 2026 to pair with the reflection helps the patterns emerge even more. Allow yourself the gift of a couple ounces of reflection this weekend.

One of the most important relationships in our life is the relationship we have to ourselves. If we step back and pay attention to the voice in our head, we are often far more critical, mean-spirited, and harsh to ourselves than we would ever be to another. If you struggle with being kind and loving to others, recognize that this is most likely due to the fact that you struggle to be kind and loving to yourself. If you don’t allow love to come in, you won’t be able to let love come out. THIS WEEK: Forgive yourself. Start new. Whatever it is, whatever you’ve done, forgive yourself. Right now. Renew your marriage vows to yourself and begin again.