You don't have a time problem. You have a control problem.

Your business responds to force. Your team responds to pressure. Your competitors react to your moves. Your body doesn't work that way.

The habits that made you successful, pushing through discomfort, ignoring signals, delaying gratification, optimizing for short-term output are assets when you're building.

They're liabilities when you're recovering. And you're in a stage now where recovery is the constraint.

You can't negotiate with your physiology. You can't delegate your recovery. You can't out-think your cortisol or out-hustle your sleep debt. And because control is how you've survived, the loss of it reads as failure.

This episode dismantles the lie that you're too busy. You're not. You're overwhelmed by the fact that your usual tools don't work. You keep building rigid systems that collapse under instability.

You keep using discipline where you need design.

The framework is simple: stop controlling, start designing. Something beats nothing.

Signal matters more than volume. Stability is the foundation. This doesn't require more hours. It requires more precision.

The version of you that could handle anything isn't gone. But the playbook that got you here won't get you there.

That's the work.