When stakes are high, holding space for everyone is a waste of precious time and energy.

The people that are capable of offering meaningful support will declare themselves by the way show up.

The people that are going to distract and prevent and drain and demand will also declare themselves by the way they show up.

We get to choose who we journey with.

And it begs a question, “If I don’t want to journey with an energy-draining distraction when the stakes are high, then why am I tolerating it at all?”