Day 3,129

Growth:

A rail to rail day of nonstop fun and excitement at work can be a pretty awesome thing when done in doses. My day started early, ran all the way through, and wrapped up a little late – nothing crazy, but it was an ongoing movement, often going directly from one activity to the next. In the moment it was tiring, but both then and now it was very rewarding as well. I’d done the right things to have everything prepped and ready before the day started, I loaded up the day with a couple of vital breathing moments built in (which were used to take care of the unexpected), and I only have a few days like this lined up back to back. Measured and intentional scarcity to maximize performance, with a couple of days of flexibility and slack built in to absorb the shock at the end of the week.

Appreciation:

Nothing quite like a thought provoking question to stir the brain! It is so easy to make assumptions but such another to keep asking meaningful and productive questions to get at the true heart of something, to at least get the brain thinking differently about something. Today held several well timed questions in many different arenas – sales to leadership to belief to efficiency to recruiting. Pausing to absorb the question and truly ponder multiple answers allows the brain to exercise its logic muscles and work through to the more likely right solution rather than the initial first guess which is just that, a guess.

Today I’m grateful for well timed and thought provoking questions. They added additional beautiful complexity to my thoughts and led me to better insights than had I just made assumptions from the start.

Presence:

Our run this morning was adjusted due to the VP flying into La Crosse today. Rather than going our normal route we had to adjust. This had the unique effect of making me focus more on the run than normal as I wasn’t able to go into my normal auto pilot mode. Nice change of pace, it helped me be much more present!

Thanks!!!