Week #1 of 2025 has arrived. Wow... look at that stretch of empty squares!  So much potential energy waiting to be unleashed on the world!   Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done?   It's a NEW YEAR, and so... a new look to the newsletter!  Let me know what you think, and thanks to Eli, my spectacular executive assistant, for all of her hard work pulling it together.   I know this is a bit strange... getting the Week #1 of 2025 email on 12/29/2024.  But, come Wednesday we will be in the middle of Week #1, 2025.     So, think of these 2 days left in 2024 as a launch ramp. ...

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I think that committing to a Daily Action, for a period of time, is the best way to change the trajectory of your life.

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If there are people around you, and you want to make their lives better, help them move forward... and for yourself... make a plan and start marching down the path of your own creation.

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Week 28 of 2024 has arrived. Just over halfway through 2024.  Smack dab in the middle of the summer and the 4th turning. The world turns and moves on. I wonder if my 18-year-old self would recognize me at 47. I'm not sure he would. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square. Done? In our house, Ryann (my wife) and I are in the middle of the struggle with the speed of the childhood clock. It's easy to see the loss.  They aren't the chubby little minions who say things like "my toe-thumb hurts" or reach out spontaneously to hold my hand. We weren't quite prepared to be relegated to spectator so "early" in the timeline....

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Thinking of time as a cycle rather than a unidirectional line has made the background anxiety around current crises easier to bear.

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What do you want?  And how can you go about getting at it? I am on that journey with you, wandering around in the dark, trying to make sense of how to "do this right".

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When a person is set against adversity, where success is improbable, either as a team or an individual, and they rise to the occasion, it fills us up and makes us proud to be human... regardless of the skill level.

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There are myriad opportunities each week to inch towards the goal of being a better version of yourself. All it takes is a tiny bit of preparation. Be ready to reclaim your stolen time, don't be a chump.

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Nearly everyone overestimates what they can get done in a day, and underestimates what they can get done in a year.

Expect great things for yourself... we're all counting on you

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I've worked hard on things that didn't pan out, and I've worked hard on things that did.  The only unifying theme in my life is that I have benefited from, and learned to love hard work. (Most kinds.)

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