Day 2,878

Growth:

Questions, lead with questions. Questions lead to greater successes than statements. Start with questions, listen, learn, and then ask more questions until it is fully understood. Only then will statements lead to success.

Appreciation:

Throughout my Express career I’ve been challenged to read many books for various training reasons. Whether it was a part of a future leadership program, a monthly training, or an ongoing ownership meeting there have been many books I’ve read. Quite often, in full honesty, I wasn’t thrilled to read them. I read them out of obligation and quite often ended up learning so much from them. After a while I started to develop a pattern of reading on a very regular basis.

Today was a wonderful reminder of how much that habit has continued to help me through my career. Thanks to have read one a while back it triggered in my mind today as one that I needed to pull off the shelf and dive back into. I did just that and am already thanking myself for the lessons and ideas I’ve gleaned from it.

Reading is such a valuable gift we can give ourselves. The lesson can never be taken away and it can come back to help us in so many different ways and situations. Today I’m grateful for developing this habit and for giving myself that gift.

Presence:

Yoga tonight was hot, muggy, and intense! The moment which stuck out most to me today as a moment of extreme presence was when Nick, our yoga instructor, challenged us to push through one last wheel pose for five of our own breaths. My arms were already torched and I was exhausted, but I gritted it out through shaking muscles to stay up for the entire five breaths.

The funny thing is that in retrospect I’m pretty sure if he would have pushed us for four breaths that’s all I would have been able to do. If he’d ask ed for us to go for six I’m guessing I could have done the six instead of five.

Regardless, in that moment the only thing on my mind and in my focus was on the individual breaths and the straining muscles. Nothing else existed, only breathing and straining. And it felt amazing!

Thanks!!!