What did you do, specifically, today?.
That’s it. I didn’t ask about work. I didn’t assume you were doing nothing. I simply asked what you did.
It’s a significant question because, when you look back at your day you can see with hindsight exactly how you spent your time. Was it worthy? Time is so sacred since it’s future is unknown— so, the way you spent your day, did it honor the sacredness that time really is? And, did it better you? Did you do everything possible with your time?
Then the next day I asked:
What, specifically, didn’t you do?
Answering this one is important. Every single one of us, upon reflection, probably didn’t love how you had to answer the first question. It points out, even if just to yourself, what your doing with your time. How you’re making an impact in your personal world, in your business, in our business, on the planet. However, answering this question honestly- it creates a list for you- it helps you focus in and re-align your intentions to do better, to get it done, to focus, to clean stuff up, to be a better steward on earth.
The last question was:
What, specifically, are you going to CHANGE?
The mother of all questions. Change is hard. And, when we look at our personal lives today, we each want to change something. I don’t’ know anyone who doesn’t. I have a huge ass list. When we look at the world, our economy, our nation, our core values—we know we need to change. Love more, give more, work more, play more, pray more, more more, more. We all know its time to amp it up.
Here’s the deal as I see it:
Asking the hard questions like what we did and didn’t do, it sucks. It’s hard. And, we can do hard. By asking and answering, it creates the road map for change.
I’m asking you again– Determine various contexts to ask these same questions. Ask them about your relationships. Ask them about your family. Ask them about your service work on our planet. Ask them about your business.
I did it and was moved by how in alignment and out of alignment various aspects of my life are.
It’s time to Change; we simply must do it— in every aspect of our lives. Some areas of our lives are in a death spiral.
Our business is in a death spiral. Will we pull out? Will we turn it around in time? And, Are we doing everything we can do to make this possible? Will we do everything we can do to make this possible? That’s the ultimate question and at the end of the journey, I don’t want to be on the wrong side of that question.
I’m gonna do everything possible to either pull up in time or hit the ground at a thousand miles an hour, trying till the last second, doing everything possible, turning over every stone, making every last call, working every last hour, trying every single idea, learning every single lesson.
How about you?
To change, maybe we don’t need to feel bad anymore about what we’ve done in the past. What if we could just start over today and be different? Act different, work different, play different, live different? What if the baggage of the past was simply removed?
I think we can, I think it is.
I read this the other day and love, love, loved it:
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Start now.
Environmental Examiner
Three Questions That Need Your Answers
In the days following this historic election, we must now begin looking to the tasks ahead. The work to be done requires all of us. We are entering a new era that will require that we all take greater responsibility for one another and the way life goes. Inside of that challenge, we need to begin asking ourselves different questions. My friend Tyler Lewke sent out an email this week that is very much worth sharing.
What did you do, specifically, today?.
That’s it. I didn’t ask about work. I didn’t assume you were doing nothing. I simply asked what you did.
It’s a significant question because, when you look back at your day you can see with hindsight exactly how you spent your time. Was it worthy? Time is so sacred since it’s future is unknown— so, the way you spent your day, did it honor the sacredness that time really is? And, did it better you? Did you do everything possible with your time?
Then the next day I asked:
What, specifically, didn’t you do?
Answering this one is important. Every single one of us, upon reflection, probably didn’t love how you had to answer the first question. It points out, even if just to yourself, what your doing with your time. How you’re making an impact in your personal world, in your business, in our business, on the planet. However, answering this question honestly- it creates a list for you- it helps you focus in and re-align your intentions to do better, to get it done, to focus, to clean stuff up, to be a better steward on earth.
The last question was:
What, specifically, are you going to CHANGE?
The mother of all questions. Change is hard. And, when we look at our personal lives today, we each want to change something. I don’t’ know anyone who doesn’t. I have a huge ass list. When we look at the world, our economy, our nation, our core values—we know we need to change. Love more, give more, work more, play more, pray more, more more, more. We all know its time to amp it up.
Here’s the deal as I see it:
Asking the hard questions like what we did and didn’t do, it sucks. It’s hard. And, we can do hard. By asking and answering, it creates the road map for change.
I’m asking you again– Determine various contexts to ask these same questions. Ask them about your relationships. Ask them about your family. Ask them about your service work on our planet. Ask them about your business.
I did it and was moved by how in alignment and out of alignment various aspects of my life are.
It’s time to Change; we simply must do it— in every aspect of our lives. Some areas of our lives are in a death spiral.
Our business is in a death spiral. Will we pull out? Will we turn it around in time? And, Are we doing everything we can do to make this possible? Will we do everything we can do to make this possible? That’s the ultimate question and at the end of the journey, I don’t want to be on the wrong side of that question.
I’m gonna do everything possible to either pull up in time or hit the ground at a thousand miles an hour, trying till the last second, doing everything possible, turning over every stone, making every last call, working every last hour, trying every single idea, learning every single lesson.
How about you?
To change, maybe we don’t need to feel bad anymore about what we’ve done in the past. What if we could just start over today and be different? Act different, work different, play different, live different? What if the baggage of the past was simply removed?
I think we can, I think it is.
I read this the other day and love, love, loved it:
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Start now.