Another week, another change.

This time, it was the announcement that our CRO is leaving. He apparently resigned last week, and wanted to be announced at the same time as the CEO stepping back (what an ego!), but it was pushed to this week.

I know it’s been said that change is the only constant. But this feels… too constant. It’s like we are on a weekly change cycle – leaders change, priorities change, operating model changes, roles change, opinions change… it feels almost futile to ever be doing anything at all.

Today was an emotional and slightly stressy day for me, for a variety of reasons. I ended the work day feeling destroyed and exhausted.

TF, who is stoic, and stolidly calm (and says I’m too excitable), reiterated some good advice he has given his leadership team before, which is that the only thing we control is our time. We can’t control anything else. The only thing we can control, is how we choose to spend our time. The way we choose to spend it will have different potential consequences. But that is the one thing we control.

So true. Wise words indeed.