You’re only as happy as your unhappiest child. If you’re a parent, you instantly get it. What surprised me is how often this shows up in business and life too. You can have 90% of things going right…and your mind still locks onto the one thing that feels off. The conversation you’re avoiding. The decision you keep delaying. The loose end you keep telling yourself you’ll deal with “later.” And the tricky part is this…That unresolved piece doesn’t stay contained. It fractures your focus. Clouds your judgment. Quietly drains energy from what is working. Sometimes it even follows you home. Here’s the shift that actually changes things: Find the constraint. Face it. Fix it. Because when your mind isn’t busy avoiding something, it finally has the bandwidth to amplify what’s already going right. So I’m curious…What’s the one thing you’ve been tolerating that’s quietly taxing everything else? Drop it below if you’re open to sharing.

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As AI becomes more capable, faster, and more accessible, it is easy to assume that intelligence itself is becoming abundant. Answers are everywhere. Outputs arrive instantly. Recommendations appear before we even finish asking the question. Yet beneath this surface abundance, something else is quietly becoming more valuable. Human judgment. In a world where information is cheap and generation is automated, the ability to decide what matters, what to trust, and what to act on is no longer assumed. It is scarce. ------------ Context: When More Answers Create More Uncertainty ------------ AI has dramatically reduced the friction of producing content, analysis, and ideas. What once took hours now takes minutes. What once required expertise now requires access. On the surface, this looks like a clear productivity win. But many people are discovering an unexpected side effect. The more options AI produces, the harder it can feel to choose. Multiple drafts, competing recommendations, and confident sounding explanations arrive all at once. Instead of clarity, we sometimes experience overload. Inside teams and organizations, this often shows up as stalled decisions. People circulate AI-generated outputs without resolution. Discussions become longer, not shorter. The presence of many plausible answers makes it harder to commit to one. This is not a failure of AI capability. It is a shift in where the real work now lives. When generation becomes easy, discernment becomes the bottleneck. ------------ Judgment Is Not the Same as Intelligence ------------ We often conflate intelligence with judgment, but they are not the same thing. Intelligence produces options. Judgment chooses among them. Intelligence can scale quickly. Judgment does not. AI excels at pattern recognition, synthesis, and variation. It can surface possibilities we might not have considered. What it cannot do is decide which option aligns with our values, context, or long-term goals. That decision still sits firmly with us.