What are you doing each day to show up for the world? Your tribe? Yourself? Are you engaged in a creative pursuit to help build a better world? I've struggled to do this and I'll share my story of how I came around. Learn more.
All in Self-Effectiveness
The human-animal needs two things to survive:
Find sources of safety; and
Avoid threats.
The human-animal is simple. All we need to do, to survive, is to find safety and avoid threats. How come we're not doing this?
For me, being outside is an opportunity to explore, and I love exploration. I see it as a chance to learn more about the world around me, relate what I've learned to another thing, and build a more massive mental construct of the world. Doing so allows me to see my own role in the world better. What works for me doesn't have to work for you.
You Are Not Your Mind
You are not your mind, and by learning and applying mindful techniques, you'll find the success and happiness you seek in your life and your work. Do not let your mind decide for you how you will live in the world. You are not your mind.
Your ability to be the most effective individual relies on your ability to balance information from the past (how things were), the present (things as they are now), and the future (things as we want them to be). Too often we abuse this ability and, like Marty McFly, get stuck in the past, the future, and search endlessly to come back to the present.
Be Proud.
As leaders, marketers, professionals, artists, pick a profession: we have a responsibility to be proud of our work. In spite of the importance, I observe that we're not always proud; but we can be.