The Hermit

You have stepped back to think. Check that thinking has not become the way you avoid the room.

Which conversation are you avoiding by calling it not ready to share yet?

Share one half-formed idea with one colleague today and let it be rough.

You handle money alone because it feels private. Alone is also where the blind spots live.

What financial question are you not asking anyone because asking would expose how little you know?

Ask one specific person one specific money question today.

You say you need space. Sometimes that is true. Sometimes it is the polite version of leaving.

Are you resting from this person, or slowly disappearing from them?

Tell them which one it is, in one honest sentence.

You are looking inward for an answer that needs one more piece of outside information.

What do you actually need to know that no amount of reflection will tell you?

Go and get that one piece of information today.

Solitude is working for you right now. Not everything needs to be fixed.

What is becoming clear in the quiet that you do not need to rush?

Protect one hour of it tomorrow and let nothing interrupt.

You have gone quiet with the work. Solitude feeds it, right up until it starts hiding it.

Who has not seen this because you are not ready, and who has not seen it because you are afraid?

Show one person the current state before it is presentable.