Picture this. My business partner and I—a classic case of fire and ice in some ways, but complimentary. For 11 rollicking years, we were the yin and yang of our venture, which I might modestly add, drummed up hundreds of millions in transactions and kept a 225-strong team buzzing. I was your textbook Type-A, go-getter. He, on the other hand, was as Zen-like as they come.

Here's a fun fact: his voicemail inbox was the stuff of legends. You see, he'd let it fill up—every. single. time. The result? A non-stop carnival of calls aimed at me from people trying to track him down. So, one day, in a fit of mild exasperation (okay, maybe not so mild), I confronted him about this peculiar habit. His response was dipped in typical Zen-style wisdom. He calmly stated, "99% of problems can be solved with just a little bit of time, usually by the person facing the problem themselves."

That hit me. What I had initially written off as procrastination was actually something far more...