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Living by a schedule works, it helps give you consistency and reproducibility in all that you do. It takes the decisions away from what you are trying to accomplish and simplifies your decision-making. When it breaks, it doesn’t go that well, you fall off, and you’re not sure what you should do next, how to do you get back on, where do you go from here. Forget the big picture of what you should do,…

On Page One. File >> New Project. “How do I do this?” Reading the Instructions. Pressing Play. One Step in front of the other. You can start anywhere and everywhere, the options are there, you just have to start.

In everything, we always say – “Keep it Simple” because that’s what makes it happen. Take out all the complexity, and all the noise, and boil the problem down to the simplest of elements. Move forward. Look up. One line at a time. One word at a time. The challenge with simplicity is that we don’t always see the result from that simplicity and get frustrated that we’re not where we’re supposed to be and…

In sports, when you challenge a player, you aren’t committing to them, you’re staying with them, you’re in front of them, you’re protecting your side and doing nothing else. You’re an obstacle, something they need to work through, someone they need to break through to get to their goal. Outside of sports, challenging is the same thing, you’re always pushing, always trying new things, always poking, always working, always breaking in. If you’re not, you’re…

Got asked this topic a few months ago – “What’s your Topic?” I stared at a blank space for a bit and thought about this very direct question – what is it and what did I want it to be? Was I happy with what it was?  Was that going to be ambitious enough? I wrote down some ideas and posted them – now I wonder if they are still the same. But it’s a…