Dependencies You Ignore Are the Ones That Will Stop You

Yesterday I went to a yoga class for the first time in forever.

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I used to be very active. Good with my stretching routines, consistent with movement. Then a new job happened. Crazy hours. And I did not leave room for anything else.

I had no active pain. I just decided to start again.

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And this is where it hit me.

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My body was a mess. Super sore. Every little stretch hurt. It had been like that the whole time, beneath the surface, silent, weakening. One day it would have cracked.

The body is one of your most crucial dependencies. And I had been neglecting it simply because it just worked. We do that. We ignore what functions. We only notice a dependency when it fails.

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But when a dependency is disrupted, everything else is disrupted. Even the most powerful systems in the world sometimes depend on a single chokepoint holding.

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Today I want you to pause.

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Go through your priorities as a leader. What are the crucial dependencies in your life, your team, your organisation that are losing capacity quietly, without warning, without announcement, while your attention is elsewhere?

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It will absorb time to address them. It is a continuous process to maintain, to strengthen, to optimise, and to keep doing that. There is no arrival point.

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But the cost of ignoring them may be a full supply disruption.