Here is the main idea in forty-six words:
There is a lot of noise coming our way to do more as we social-distance. It is important now more than ever that we filter in the right information and guide our actions. Combining strategic thinking when applicable, with our increased efforts, can yield extraordinary results.
We hear the call to action to learn something new, practice yoga, clean the house, do things we don’t usually have time for, and there is great value in doing so. However, there is a lack in the call to action to take time to figure out how all of our efforts fit into our master plans.
We have to evaluate our master plans, or perhaps create one, and draw the outline in pencil of the puzzle before we start playing with the puzzle pieces. How do our actions align with our long-term pursuit of excellence and our unique daily discipline needed to achieve it?
We can plow through life, but if our actions are not aligned, we could be plowing snow back into the same spot it was just in. We need to gain and demonstrate expertise to grow influence but let’s make sure we are taking time to obtain the right knowledge and check-in that we are not only growing, but growing in the way we want and need to.
We can leverage the passive investor mindset of preparing ourselves for delayed gratification, staying the course, and the keystone notion that this too shall pass. But how about we combine the indelible outlook with an active investor mindset, closely monitoring our routines and individual actions to exploit every single chance to better ourselves.
Our society often rewards quantity over quality of actions and can confuse them to be the same. This carrot can encourage momentum, but we need to point the slingshot in the right direction.
Let’s
- Be strategic in our master plans
- Be tactical in the needed actions, and
- Be an operator by making it happen.
If we forget to do step 1, I’d bet steps 2 and 3 do not get utilized to their full capacities.
Now would be a good time to turn on and turn up your favorite song. Take a pause, a few deep breaths, and hold onto the feeling of confidence.
If your composure has left you at all recently, that’s OK. It’s waiting for you to take it back. Let’s play our aces and leverage our support system.
How will we look back on these moments in 6 months? A year?
I’d say with a smile from ear-to-ear knowing we gave it all we had. Because amid endless uncertainty around us, we leaned into adversity rather than shying away. We met trials not as an unexpected visitor, but as a special guest at our social-distancing gathering. We showed courage by less of slaying the dragon, and more of making progress in the face of endless opportunities not to.
In closing, one of the best professors I had during my two years at La Salle University was Dr. Kennedy, and he would always sign off with noting, contact me anytime. Dr. Kennedy was a Penn State grad and helped me in my entrance into Schreyer’s when I transferred.
It’s beautiful how things end up like that, but that’s almost always how it works. Whatever we are looking for in life, we will find.
So, take time to be strategic, re-balance, and let’s live life in the present because if we can do it, it will last a lifetime.
Contact me anytime,
Nate
Nate Woodman 