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The Habit That Cured My Leadership Anxiety | Skye Blanks

8 May 2026 · 1 min

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In this personal leadership reflection, Skye Blanks recounts how she once resisted proactive planning, a tension that even surfaced with her company’s owner who noted that her morning anxiety stemmed from reacting to an unstructured day. She explains that by shifting to a Sunday‑night weekly‑planning habit—using the calm of the weekend to map out the upcoming week—she moved from a reactive, anxious start to a strategic, relaxed mindset. After setting aside her ego and trying the method, she found it to be a "game changer" and has maintained the practice for five to six years, reporting sustained reductions in stress and improved leadership performance.

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I resisted planning ahead for so long. It was actually a point of tension between me and the owner of the company because he's like, part of your stress and anxiety is coming from your reactionary in the mornings. Like, you come into your day and you've got so much going on and you're trying to figure out where to begin, but you're already in an anxious state. Versus if you plan on Sunday when you're coming off of, you know, a weekend, you're relaxed, you're you're not worried about what you're doing today and you can really think through strategically what you need, things are going to change for you. I resisted that for a long time, and as soon as I like, okay, I'll try your method, I'll put my own ego aside and the way that I think I should do it, the way that it's better, and really plan out my week, it has been an absolute game changer. I have done that now for 5, 6 years.