Workplace Multiplier by Tola Akinsulire

July 15, 2026

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The List You're Avoiding

Howdy

If you did the exercise from my last email honestly, you already have a name.

A project, a client, a colleague…somewhere you know you're behind on Follow-Through.

Most people stop there. They feel it, nod, and move on to the next email in their inbox. That is not the test. That is just noticing the test exists.

Here is the harder version. Write down every promise you are currently carrying. Every "I'll send that by," every "leave it with me," every "let me follow up on that." Not just the big ones.

All of them.

Most people cannot get past three items before they realize how many small promises they have let go quiet.

Silence is not neutral. Every promise you have not updated is a gap someone else is quietly keeping score of, whether they have said anything yet or not.

So here is your assignment. Make the list. Then send one update today, on the promise you are most tempted to leave alone. Not because it is urgent. Because it is the one you would rather avoid.

That is the whole test. Not delivering everything perfectly. Closing the gap between what you said and what you have actually done, before anyone has to come and ask you "how far?"

The good book says a little leaven leavens the whole lump. Your name at work works the same way. One quiet, unaddressed gap eventually explains all the others.

Keep winning at work and in life.

Tola Akinsulire 
Your Strategic Workplace Mentor