The work was finished.
I was afraid to admit it.
For weeks, I kept finding reasons to touch The Fence—another sentence, another take, one more detail that might make the whole thing better.
Most of it was real work.
Until it wasn’t.
In this episode of Along the Way, I look at the one-letter difference between business and busyness—and how perfectionism can make fear look like discipline.
But I do not want to give you another explanation of Five Minutes in America or another promise about what I am building.
I want to give you the first finished story.
The work itself.
Listen to The Fence
Put on a pair of headphones if you can. Let the evening light settle across the wire and see where the story carries you.
Listen first. Decide afterward.
If The Fence earns a place in your day, become a paid member of The Coffman Chronicle—not as a favor, but because you want the next story waiting when the journey begins.
Paid members receive the entire first week of Five Minutes in America together on September 5. The weekday stories begin publicly on September 7.
What have you kept perfecting because you are afraid to call it finished?
Tell me in the comments. And if someone you know needs permission to let the work stand, send this episode to them.
I’m Tony Michaels.
I’ll see you... along the way.
