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#94 "No" Gets The Jets In The Air: How Closing Doors Helps You Create Clarity
Your potential is grounded by options. Embrace the Discipline of Closing Doors and learn how strategic elimination helps you Create Clarity and professional momentum.

Francois Esterhuizen
Dec 8, 20252 min read


#93 Chasing Gold Dust: How To Get Unstuck By Avoiding The AOES Trap
Stop panning for gold. Francois Esterhuizen looks at how AOES tasks hijack your focus away from high-leverage, compounding work and what to do instead.

Francois Esterhuizen
Dec 1, 20253 min read


#91 Lighthouse Keeper or Novelty Seeker? Why Your Momentum Depends on Boring Work
Discover why avoiding boring work is the biggest threat to your momentum. Learn to shift your mindset, give meaning to the process, and get unstuck for good.

Francois Esterhuizen
Nov 17, 20253 min read


#88 The Comfort of the Checklist: Practicing Productive Avoidance
Learn why you engage in productive avoidance by choosing easy tasks over impactful work. Uncover the psychological drivers that keep you busy but stagnant.

Francois Esterhuizen
Oct 27, 20252 min read


#87 Are You Buying Back Time or Creating a Vacuum? How to Turn Space into Strategic Momentum
To achieve real momentum, learn how to strategically buy back your time for high-value investment. Stop creating a vacuum that simply fills with low-value, wasteful activities.

Francois Esterhuizen
Oct 20, 20253 min read


#86 The Outcome Trap: Why Focusing on Results Is Keeping You Stuck
Getting stuck on the outcome is ironically often the thing that keeps you stuck. Take the next step. Avoid the outcome trap.

Francois Esterhuizen
Oct 13, 20252 min read


#80 Why You Need to Walk Through Uncomfortable Emotions and How They Lead to Clarity
Most of us avoid uncomfortable emotions, but this habit keeps us stuck. Learn how to use physical sensations as a doorway to clarity and personal responsibility.

Francois Esterhuizen
Sep 1, 20253 min read


#79 Why You Avoid the Emotions That Could Help You Succeed and How to Use Them for Growth
Francois Esterhuizen reveals why resistance isn’t logical but emotional — and how embracing discomfort instead of fighting it unlocks clarity, freedom, and real progress.

Francois Esterhuizen
Aug 25, 20253 min read


#38 Upgrade your problems
In a recent newsletter, Mark Manson wrote: “When we lack real problems in our lives, our mind quickly sets out to imagine some for us. We...

Francois Esterhuizen
May 18, 20232 min read
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