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Welcome to Design youn Strongest year ever, a 26 day special edition of the nonprofit Mastermind podcast. I'm your host, Brook Richie Babbage. I created this series because I believe that how your year ends is determined by what you do now in August, not in November. My work is rooted in the idea that intentional design, not more hustle, is what determines how far your mission can scale. So every day I'll share one very simple but very powerful lesson shift or tool you can use right now to prepare yourself for year end and for each one. If you sign up for the emails that go with these episodes, I've created a worksheet or prompt. You can collect them as you go and have a whole bundle. Finally, if the day's topic hits a nerve, I'll point you towards the most relevant of my implementation toolkits. For the length of this series, I'm offering 26% off all purchases. Let's dive in. If you're most urgent work keeps getting bumped until tomorrow, you're likely trapped in an urgency loop. The thing is, urgency is addictive. Importance is actually strategic. And the leaders who win quarter after quarter recommit their calendar to what will actually change the outcome to what is important. And it protects them from what is urgent, the urgent things that come up. Urgency multiplies on its own, but the important things happen by design. So here's your micro action. It's a two slot activity. First, I want you to block 90 minutes before noon one or two days to do this 90 minutes before noon. And by block I mean no meetings and no slack, right? No regular engagement with your team or with your board. Set some rules for reactivity to protect that time. You can check emails every 15 minutes. Well, no, that's a bad one. You can check email every hour, right? Or every 45 minutes. But something that actually allows you to do some deep work and settle into deep thinking mode. And then so that's block one. And then at the end of that day, any day where you've set aside this 90 minute, I want you to end with a five minute tomorrow's first move note. And that is taking everything that came out of that block and identifying one thing you're going to do at the top of the next day. That little loop allows you to take what grew out of the decision making non urgent time you set aside and start your day sort of seed the next day's calendar with a little bit of a focus on what's important to continue to carry that protection from the urgent into your next day. Try that for a week and see how things change. If you want the Reactivity Detox worksheet that goes along with this activity, you can get it with the emails that go with this series@brookrachubbage.com EBC strategies.