A great way to start your day is to go to the gym. Improve your strength, cardio, flexibility and your mindset. Is also great to be striving with all the other people there too.
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Category: Action
Get Out For A Walk
Walking is such a great exercise. It’s also a great way to have a chat while moving. Great for your health, great for your relationships or even doing business.
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Define The Question
Do you want the world to be a better place or do you simply want it to be run the way you currently feel it should be? These can be wildly different.
Wanting the world to continue to get better is next level politics. Unfortunately, most people would rather trash every opposing or slightly different (could we say diverse) viewpoint, just so they could lead and be in charge.
Most people (maybe 80%) would probably agree with great policies, if they didn’t know which side had suggested them. Unfortunately, our tribal instincts and cultures have us preferring the tribe over the policy.
This happens in global and country politics but also in garden variety conversations with neighbours, family and friends.
Find common ground and notice the nuance. Give and take a little. The world could be a much better place if we noticed that the vast majority of people, deep down, want very similar things.
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Book Something Fun
It doesn’t need to be expensive. There are many fun things you can do such as crazy golf, a park walk, coffee together, or even a movie while cuddled up on the sofa together.
Just have something once per week to look forward to.
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Spice It Up
Shake things up in your routine. Do something different. If you can add a new discipline, do it.
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Who Is Influencing You?
Have you considered who is really helping your mind make decisions? You may think it is you. But is it?
Where did you get the information? Did you get the opposing view in an unbiased way?
Is your info coming from the radio, tv, print media, family or friends? Have you reflected on that information and given it a sensibility test?
Are people using sample sizes of one to get you to believe something is very widespread when it isn’t? Something may be terrible but if it happens just 0.001% of the time, though very unfortunate, it is not a national crisis of epic and massive proportions. Remember that.
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Get Around Top Performers
Low performers drag you down (by nearly 30%!) whereas top performers bring you up (about 15%).
Makes sense. Especially if you’re the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
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Learn Something Today
Learn something you didn’t know or that you thought was the opposite. Improve your understanding of money, relationships, friends, fitness, health or philosophy.
Have a deep think about something. Reflect on things you’ve said or done. Note what you believe went well and those things that didn’t. Prepare how you might improve on both the next time.
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Stay Strong
Don’t let them get you down. Stay mentally tough. Ensure their barbed taunts deflect off you like Teflon.
For some reason, people would rather see you aggravated and fail then to see how well you could do. They’ll chastise you, give you labels and call you names. They don’t see good or want to address the issue in a discussion.
It’s win the argument at all costs, even if it means destroying bridges and foundations.
Don’t let them ruin you. Stay strong.
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Want To Be Right Or Progress Forward?
Oftentimes we are so focused on our own view, and holding on to it, and defending it so we can be “right”, that we miss the opportunity to improve the situation.
While we stick to our perspective and search only for data to support our bias, we don’t listen to evidence being presented that may have some merit. Defending our position and being right becomes the overriding objective, not solving the problem.
Imagine the improvement in our world if we focused on really understanding the different perspectives presented, clarifying what the actual issue is and using all the data to find a better way ahead.
Try focusing on a better outcome rather than defending your position. It’ll be a game changer.
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