You went straight into work.
No pause.
No easing in.
No transition.
One moment your eyes opened-
the next, your nervous system was already at full volume.
Inbox blinking.
Tabs multiplying.
Your body still half asleep… your mind already sprinting.
You skipped the stretch.
Skipped the check-in.
Skipped the handoff.
It felt efficient.
(Productive, even.)
But here’s the part nobody warns you about:
That jump has a cost.
Not immediately.
Not dramatically.
It shows up later.
In the tight jaw you don’t notice until noon.
In the scattered focus that makes simple tasks feel heavy.
In that quiet sense that the day is pulling you forward- instead of you leading it.
Because your system doesn’t switch modes like a light.
It needs a transition.
And when you remove it, you don’t start strong-
you start rushed.
Most people run on this belief:
“If I go faster, I’ll get ahead.”
But what actually happens is subtler.
You carry the speed of the previous moment
into the next one.
Sleep → stress.
Rest → pressure.
Calm → urgency.
That’s not momentum.
That’s friction.
The missed stretch was never about flexibility.
It was about entry.
Transitions quietly decide how the next hour feels
long before you notice anything is “off.”
So anchor this:
How you enter a moment
determines how you perform inside it.
And here’s the real question- the one worth sitting with:
Where could you slow the transition today…
without losing momentum?
– Maxim
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Next up:
There’s something you saved.
You told yourself you’d come back to it.
Most people never do- and they pay for it later.
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