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The main thing
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing Set your priorities. Focus on what’s important. Let your next actions follow through with those priorities. If you plan to soar, spend serious time building your wings. Resist daylong distraction with minutia and administrivia. Why fill your day with social media and email,…
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Do the work
Be the attractor You get what you want when you commit to the daily effort to become the attractor of what you want.
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Reunite with the better you
Who are you today? Your better self? Or have things slipped? You know those moments of alignment with the better you. The times when you feel whole, fully there, filled with uncommon purpose and energy. Pursue that better you and get re-aligned on its trajectory. Staying on course means following your disciplines, fueling your desires,…
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On your worst day
When it’s not the same as perfect You will constantly disappoint yourself if you try to practice until perfect. Perfect is too fragile and uncommon. Practice until you can’t-get-it-wrong is a more meaningful approach. It’s working to ensure failure becomes the exception rather than the possibility. It’s about honing reliability and consistency, even under pressure.…
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Your base
We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. – Archilocus This is why we train, prepare and maintain our base. Our ability to prevail does not depend on superpowers, it comes from the behaviors and habits that help us when faced with critical situations. Whether we…
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Disorderly progress
We move forward within chaos. We tear down the old while building the new, and must learn to survive the dust and debris created in the process. We move through fits and pauses, and get frustrated when we hit plateaus, however temporary. Growth often looks like confusion before it looks like clarity, and we prefer…