Hey :)

I had to laugh at myself earlier.

I remembered this thing from when I worked in an agency. As a team, we had to fill out one of those “getting to know you” questionnaires. One of the questions was something like: what’s something that really bugs you? Or what’s important to you that, when it’s not done, annoys you? I can’t remember the exact wording.

But I remember exactly what I wrote.

“Everything has its place.”

Even as I’m writing that now, it makes me laugh. It sounds very old-man-ish. Slightly grumpy dad energy. Like: if you can’t find something, it’s because you didn’t put it back where it belongs.

At the time, it was a bit tongue in cheek. Something I shared with the squad half-jokingly.

But looking back on it now, it might have been one of the most honest things I ever told them.

Because that really is me.

I’ve grown into a role where, essentially, what I do is make sense of mess.

Even today, I was on a call with one of our coaches. She was talking me through some internal conversations that were happening, and I could feel something rising in me as she spoke. Not frustration. Not judgement. Just this immediate awareness that there was a mess forming.

Things not quite lining up.

Ideas overlapping.

Conversations pulling in different directions.

And without any criticism of anyone involved, I realised: this is the thing I’m good at.

I’m good at making sure there isn’t a mess.

I’m good at helping things sit in the right place.

At making sure ideas, decisions, and conversations actually work together.

As soon as I sensed it, I felt myself wanting to jump in and bring order to it.

And that’s when that old agency moment popped into my head. Me, half-joking, writing “everything has its place” in a little text box.

Turns out it wasn’t a joke at all.

In a lot of ways, that’s pretty much my work.

Putting things where they belong.

Helping people see what’s out of place.

And making sure everything fits together in a way that actually works.

🗣️👀

Chris