I still vividly remember a meeting at the beginning of the year. It was early morning, the coffee hadn’t even fully kicked in yet, and we were already sitting in a Teams meeting. The agenda? A long list of items no one had really read. After twenty minutes, it became obvious: the entire discussion could easily have been handled in a five-line email. One of those moments you silently acknowledge with an eye roll and the phrase, “This could have been an email.” The truth is, we

… Perhaps today is a good day to begin? There are topics we tend to postpone until tomorrow. For many people, planning ahead belongs exactly in this category. It is rarely urgent, rarely loud — but always important. Perhaps we associate planning ahead with advance directives, wills, patient directives, or retirement planning. With forms. With laws. With uncomfortable conversations. And sometimes with things we would rather not think about at all. Yet planning ahead is far mor