Another word to write,An errand to run, A person to help,A thought to entertain.Don’t allow yourself to get complacent. Seek and strive to serve.

When you start the day - you set the pace.If you want to run, you can run.If you want to ease, you can ease.If you want to stall, you get to do that too.You set the pace.

I revisited this post from a few years ago - “What do you want tomorrow to be about?”When tomorrow is a potential blank piece of paper, and motivation is low - what should tomorrow be about? Waking up? Making your bed? Making coffee?When motivation is lowest, make tomorrow about something small - one small action. Nobody likes to aim high when they feel drained - aiming high can be draining. Instead, “aim small, miss small.”

Good vs EvilRight vs LeftCommunism vs Capitalism Woke vs RacistAnxious vs RelaxedHow much better might life be if we simply focused on achieving some type of equilibrium?LoveCenterConscious.Human PresentSounds like a happier life.

“No [person] resolved to make the most of [themselves], can spare time for personal contention.” - Abraham LincolnThere is no time for doubt or for fretting what will happen if you do or don’t. There is no time to put off acting your best you can with what you have right now.If you want to make the most of yourself, do it.

Failure that comes from planned, methodical testing is simply how you learn. It moves thing forward in the end, it’s how you avoid the big-F Failure.” - Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz, Lean Analytics. ‘nuff said.Happy Friday.

“Everyone faces up more bravely to a thing for which they have long prepared.” - Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, CVIIWe best attack our fears head on when we’ve prepared ourselves to deal with it. How do we prepare?Understand your truth and your fear, ask “what they’re for?”Determine how resistant you is rearing its ugly head and create a plan to silence it.Reflect: How might I attack my work, life, and everything more like a professional?Decide how you will confront fear - consider a decision journal.Visualize: yourself letting go - now that you’ve prepared, let go of everything and effortlessly perform. (thanks to my college professor, Charlene, for making us read, Inner Game of Music).Execute. Put that way, being “brave”, feels more like a preparation and visualization process and less like a feeling summoned during times of stress. Put that way, you get to decide now how you will prepare. People Leaders: I cannot overstate the importance of creating and keeping a discipline around preparation and visualization when it comes to leadership and pushing through change.

When your body starts to get chilled, you start moving to create heat. So to you need to keep pushing even when the muse doesn’t show and the passion begins to fade.Results follow activity.

What is your work for? When you hit a fork in the road, re-orientate yourself with the question, What is it for?What Is this journey for?What is my work for?What is this decision for?What is this step for?What is this question for?

Don’t engage, and instead, practice deep empathy. What must have happened in their life to drive them that way?How must it feel to be them? How might I help them out of this?We all suffer in some form - none of us are immune from it.Let’s try to connect to the thing that binds us together - start with first principles - and then go from there.