💡Tips To Go Further: How To Own Your (Successful) Week

Many of us struggle with how to manage our personal lives, work lives and everything in between. Here are tips I shared with a client last week, you may find helpful. I call it “The Weekly Time Block.” You can modify based on your work, life and needs. Here’s the foundation as an example:

3 × Business Power Blocks (90–120 min)
Purpose: Revenue work only
Sales calls • Proposals • Client Delivery • Pitching • Closing • Creating Offers

2 × Admin Blocks (45–60 min)
Purpose: Keep the business running.
Email • Invoicing • Scheduling • DMs • Follow-Ups • Paperwork

1 × Life Block (60 min)
Purpose: Reduce household mental load
Groceries • Friends • Fitness • Calendar Planning • Errands • Family • House Admin

🗣 Laurence‑ism: Perfection Keeps You Stuck. Trying Sets You Free.

Let me hold your hand while I tell you this: you’ll never be perfect, your project will never be perfect, and the only perfect is the perfect time to try anything new…which is right now!

It sounds simple. Almost obvious. And it really is.

And yet, most people don’t try…at all.

Not because they don’t care. Or don’t want it badly.
Not because they don’t have the ability or skill.
And not because they don’t have the opportunity.

Many don’t try for one simple fact and it’s because trying introduces that scary word: risk.

Risk of embarrassment.
Risk of failure.
Risk of being seen before they feel ready.

So instead, many people stay in their minds because it’s safe. And because it’s safe this is what most people do:

They rehearse conversations they never have.
They design businesses they never launch.
They imagine lives they never step into.

They convince themselves they’re “preparing.”
But what they’re really doing is avoiding the emotional cost of imperfection.

And the irony is the following:
The cost of trying is temporary.
The cost of not trying is permanent.

That feeling. That pinch in your chest you get from not trying. There’s a word for it.
It’s called regret. And regret doesn’t show up loudly at first. It’s shows up in quiet, small decisions. It’s subtle.

It shows up when you see someone else living a life you once imagined for yourself.
It shows up when you realize the thing you feared wasn’t nearly as dangerous as you believed.
It shows up when you recognize the only thing standing between you and growth…is or was action.

Not talent.
Not intelligence.
Not timing.
Action!

In coaching, please know I’ve seen this pattern over and over.

Brilliant people delaying decisions for years. Not days. Not months. YEARS!
These are smart people. People who would tell others (friends, family, strangers) how to improve their lives or make a change. Yet, when it comes to taking that advice they find it difficult, if not impossible.

These delays prevent great people from doing great things.
Not because they don’t know what to do.
But because doing it would mean risking the identity they’ve carefully protected.

There’s a psychological principle called loss aversion. I share this often with clients.
It tells us something important.
Human beings feel the pain of loss more intensely than the pleasure of gain.
Which means the fear of failing often outweighs the excitement of succeeding.

So people stay where they are. Stagnant. Stuck. Feeling helpless.
Not because it’s fulfilling, but because it’s familiar.
Not because it’s aligned, but because it’s safe.

Friends, I’ll tell you this: safety and freedom rarely, if ever, live in the same place.

Trying requires you to tolerate uncertainty.
Trying requires you to release the illusion of control.
Trying requires you to accept that you may not get it right the first time.
In fact, you most likely will suck at it the first time! Or the second. Or the third.

And that’s ok because here’s the thing. Every attempt builds something you cannot build through thinking alone:
Momentum. Clarity. Self-trust.

Most people are waiting to feel confident before they begin.
But like Clooney said in ‘Three Kings', “the way it works is you get the courage to do the thing after you’ve done it, not before.” 

Confidence doesn’t come first. In anything. Confidence comes from evidence. How can we be confident if we’ve never done it. That’s faith. And faith and confidence are often conflated. Faith comes from a belief, evidence only comes from action.

This is why done is better than perfect. Because done teaches you something. Perfect teaches you nothing. We do NOT get better from “perfection.” It’s a dream and a hope. A wish. Progress only responds to what is real.

This is why I created something I call The Trying Tree.

I didn’t design this as a metaphor for success., but instead as a reminder of choice.

There is a branch where you try. And there is a branch where you don’t.
Trying doesn’t guarantee success, but not trying guarantees stagnation.

Trying produces learning.
Learning produces growth.
Growth eventually produces the life you’re capable of living.

Not trying produces one thing. Regret.

So here’s the question you could ask yourself.
Stop asking, “what if I fail?”
Start asking, “what if I don’t try?”

What if the thing you’re avoiding is the very thing that changes your life?

What if the version of you that you’re capable of becoming is waiting on the other side of one imperfect decision?

What if freedom was never about certainty…but about willingness?

Perfection keeps you stuck.
Trying will set you free.

🧰 Tools to Go Further: The Trying Tree

I created something I call The Trying Tree.
This is as a simple reminder of how growth actually works.
One branch represents trying:
That branch holds learning, growth, failure, and eventually success.

The other branch represents not trying:
It feels safe, but it guarantees nothing changes.

The roots: Courage, Consistency, and Curiosity, are what give you the strength to step onto the branch of trying in the first place.

Go Further 🚀