Daily Archives: March 11, 2026

Six months ago I blocked this week on my calendar.

Last September I put this week on the calendar and locked it shut. No client calls. No strategy sessions. No notifications at midnight. Because my daughter Bella is a Coast Guard Academy cadet, her schedule belongs to the federal government now, and the windows to be together don’t appear on their own. You plan them…

I took an IRS call in El Yunque rainforest yesterday.

I want to tell you about a phone call I got this week. We were in El Yunque. That’s the rainforest in Puerto Rico. Dense canopy, humidity you can wear, the kind of place where your phone signal is a suggestion. My family was outside the car. I was sitting in the passenger seat on…