Habit Excellence
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
It all starts with your daily rhythms and rituals...
Your days are your life in miniature, embedded habits become your embodied life! If you want to build a life you love, you have to build days you love, days that sustain you, energize you, optimize you, nourish you! So the intentional construction of your day might be one of the most important tasks at hand. Ironically we largely operate on autopilot living today nearly identical to yesterday and last week.
This section of Wildly Better is here to help you learn how to dial in your daily rhythms, especially those currently on autopilot and awaken to a whole new world of high performance and flow!
From your weekly personal planning meeting, to carefully designing your am's and pm's to maximize energy, clarity and learning... this section of blogs and videos is simply here to help you soar and design the life you want!
Writing Focused on Habits
We are finding out quickly that monitoring our intention is tough work. But this IS THE WORK we have to do if creating our future is the goal. Monitor intention and creating the future awaiting you is like breathing!
Remember the richest man in history with the hanging gardens of babylon...Solomon? He said as a person thinks in their heart...that is in fact who they are. It's easy to get stuck. Monitor intention!
I have been doing a lot of seminar work lately; much of it around human development and how the “self” is formed. Simply and briefly stated our
Hopeful or helpless those are the two poles we bounce between in life. Let's get in the hope zone!
Why is change so hard? Why are organizational paradigm shifts well near impossible? One line of conversation could go down the road of the neurobiological challenges that come with habit formation and the of breaking old ones. We will need to leave that for another day, though it is a fascinating and
I have had the opportunity to spend time since the beginning of the year with a couple different groups of entrepreneurial start-ups, a
The truth is most of us have settled for mediocre.
We are content with average.
Unremarkable is fine.
Ho-Hum our soup du jour.
I was reminded this week working with a leader and his team that rhythms become routines and if we are not careful routines become ruts.
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Video Shorts Focused on Habits
Quantum connectedness is more practical than you might think. We live in the extraordinary time when science is making observations that shatter any myth that spirituality and science are miles apart. While some of these seem academic the practical implications are nothing short of profound.