For those looking to drive bigger, bolder, and more sustainable change it can be a struggle to balance our ambition without burning out. Starting your day with this 5-minute journaling ritual can help center you — allowing you to step into your change-making work with joy and ease.

“Stress is a systems problem,” at least when it comes to business and creative pursuits. If you’re getting bogged down by the Burdensome B’s (bored, bottlenecked, burned out, or buried by bureaucracy), this guide is for you. Free Time is not about working as little as possible. Nor is it about creating a lifestyle business purely for one’s own gain. Life-giving businesses energize everyone who participates in them, from owners to team members to clients and the community. You can, happily and strategically, work less. In fact, working fewer hours is often harder than working more. It requires building sophisticated systems and trusting a Delightfully Tiny Team to handle the details.