Picture this: You've had a really long day. You get home, and head down to the basement to drop some things off in your home office.
Your puppy's in the lead, and rounds the corner before you can...
...And starts barking up a storm.
You just got home. You're tired. You're hungry. And now you're looking around for some sort of melee weapon and wondering who you're going to have to do battle with.
After grabbing something entirely insufficient and rounding the corner woefully under-armed, this is what you see:
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Yes. A 5-foot alien. Just hangin' out in the office.
Well as you can see, today's email is inspired by actual events because this actually happened to me.
And as I was trying to process this scene and figure out why someone would do this to me 😂, I started thinking back to my Momentum Reset classes.
It's a place where I invite people take a pause and go
- "Where are you driving yourself?"
- "What do you want?"
- "Are you intentionally heading in the direction you wanna be heading?"
And one of the things in that class are 3 questions James Clear shared when I saw him at an event a year or so ago...
(⬇️ Btw, watch instead of reading, or read on below. ⬇️)
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James' 3 questions...
1st question: "What am I optimizing for?"
What am I trying to accomplish? Do I even know? Am I just copying plays and paces that someone else is running? Or that I heard on a podcast? Or that worked that one time for me so I just kept doing it?
2nd question: "Can my current habits carry me to the future I want?"
The activities that I'm doing right now today, are they going to carry me to the future I want? Are they taking me in the right direction?
But the 3rd question is apparently the one that landed with some of my clients, who thought it'd be fun to grace me with a new 👽 friend...
"If an alien came down and couldn't understand your language at all..."
i.e. you can't explain, "Well listen, I'm doing 'this' now because 'this' is going to lead to 'this', and 'this' is going to produce 'this'."
They can't understand you, okay? You CAN'T explain it away. (Some of us are really good at that, right?)
"...but they could ONLY tell your priorities based on the actions you're taking...what would that alien say that you want for your future?"
So anyway...my new alien friend wants to know that about you.
Based only on your actions, what do you want for your future?
And if that's not the future you want...then what actions do you need to start taking?
Drop me a line and let me know! (Writing is the 'doing' part of thinking.)
The reality is, we live in a world that's changing all the time.
We have to stay on top of what's happening, and need to look at whether or not the activities that got us here are going to take us to the next place.
That's just a necessary part of all the 'doing'.
And if you need to get refocused, realigned, set some intention and get back into momentum, reach out. I'd love to talk with you about it.
You are worth it.
Love doing life with you,
Dawn
PS - Got a name idea for our alien friend? Because we're definitely keeping this dude.
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