The past 365 days have taught me many lessons. As I reflect on the ones I hope to take forward into the next year, I thought I’d pull out the top three.
(1) Health and fitness: Health is always the starting point when I share what I’m grateful for. When health becomes a problem, everything stops. That’s why Peter Attia’s Outlive hit all the right notes. It explained why a consistent focus on health and fitness mattered and broke down how to work on it effectively. And it is advice I’ve been working on incorporating every day since.
(2) Memories: The most important lesson I’ve learnt on parenting is that “the days are long, but the years are short.” We’re now just over 7 years into this journey and that idea rings true. We’re also in that magical period where our kids think we’re cool and look forward to hanging out with us and our parents. I am very aware that won’t last long. So we’re doing our best to make the most of the time together by giving ourselves as many shots at making lasting memories. Intention is the strategy.
(3) Clarity of vision, relentless energy, and systems: I’ve begun to think about leadership as a combination of clarity of vision, relentless constructive energy, and the ability to build systems that enable our teams to deliver results. Every time I reflect on those ideas, I realize how much work I have to do. The size of the task also provides perspective. You never know if a good day is a good day.
Best to just keep plugging away and do our best to make it meaningful, make it count.
(past birthday notes/version updates :) – 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23).
