What Are You Carrying?

by Pia Jansson | Sep 8, 2026 | Business

Everyone's back from Labor Day.

Suddenly, the targets feel more urgent. There's revenue to bring in, projects to complete, and only four months left on the calendar. The deadline is real.

So the instinct kicks in: push harder, close faster, carry everything into Q4.

What still deserves your attention?

But the more interesting question is what still deserves your attention.

Not everything does.

The initiative that isn't producing. The prospect everyone keeps carrying. The priority that made sense in March but hasn't been questioned since.

It's easy to keep carrying something simply because you already have.

But something that was worth pursuing six months ago doesn't automatically deserve another four.

What are you choosing not to carry into the last four months of the year?

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