In this episode:<ul><li>Why “I don’t have time to think” usually means you don’t have time not to</li><li>The ROI of 20 minutes a week, and one client’s 18x return</li><li>The four hidden sources of cleanup work</li><li>Why busyness feels like progress, and why sitting still feels like falling behind at first</li><li>This week’s two-part assignment</li></ul>This week’s assignment:<ol><li>Block 20 minutes on your calendar, same day and time each week, ideally before email.</li><li>Track your cleanup bill for one week with a tally mark every time you redo, revisit, or untangle something better thinking would have prevented.</li></ol>
<a href="https://deliberatedirections.com/think-first-allison-dunn/" target="_blank">Think First</a>

Look at your calendar. There are leadership meetings, client calls, one-on-ones, and the standing Monday meeting nobody remembers starting. Where is the meeting where you actually think?

For most leaders, it doesn’t exist. In this first episode of a new series, Allison Dunn explains why dedicated thinking time is the highest-yield meeting you can schedule. Picking up from last month’s discussion of “thinking debt,” she breaks down the real math: 20 minutes a week costs about 17 hours a year, and can save 150+ hours of cleanup. That’s a net gain of nearly three and a half work weeks.

Allison also shows you how to read your own “cleanup bill” by spotting the four places reactive leadership hides: decisions you revisit, conversations that multiply, escalations, and rework.

The Meeting You Keep Canceling

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