Appendix A - The Practices Are Subtractions

Appendix A - The Practices Are Subtractions

Appendix A - The Practices Are SubtractionsFrancois Wessels
Published on: 26/08/2026

Most books of practices ask you to add one more thing to an overfull life. This one doesn't. A working field guide to the Safety, Story, and Strategy practices behind the SSS Framework — reframed as removals, not homework — with usable exercises.

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Chapter 9 - Before You Can Re-Enchant Anyone Else

Chapter 9 - Before You Can Re-Enchant Anyone Else

Chapter 9 - Before You Can Re-Enchant Anyone ElseFrancois Wessels
Published on: 24/07/2026

Most leaders can care for everything except the self doing the caring. This piece explores re-enchantment as the slow recovery of contact with your own life — not a self-care project, but the ground every wiser strategy grows from.

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Chapter 7 - Your Body Already Knows — The Question Is Whether You're Listening

Chapter 7 - Your Body Already Knows — The Question Is Whether You're Listening

Chapter 7 - Your Body Already Knows — The Question Is Whether You're ListeningFrancois Wessels
Published on: 10/07/2026

You can be delivering, respected, and still feel something has gone quiet inside. This week's reflection explores interoception — the body's own intelligence — and why learning to listen to it may be the leadership skill no one taught you.

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Chapter 6 - Strategy Is Not a Plan. It Is a Way of Being.

Chapter 6 - Strategy Is Not a Plan. It Is a Way of Being.

Chapter 6 - Strategy Is Not a Plan. It Is a Way of Being.Francois Wessels
Published on: 07/07/2026

Strategy is not merely planning. In this reflection on embodied intelligence, discover why wise action begins with sensing — and how the rhythm of Sense, Shape, Sustain can transform leadership from defended performance into inhabitable presence.

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