The three caballeros. They met years ago in High School freshman Latin class. In a month they will make their fifth or sixth ‘family’ trip to Glacier together. Photo: Today at dinner time. The first time they’ve been together in six months. The whole Australia thing.
Some of the questions (about 20%) i asked my executive coaching client this morning.
What are your top three priorities in Priority order?
Mine are (1) have fun, (2) .think .differently, (3) lean into discomfort.
Having fun is paramount to an enjoyable life. Life is too short not to. #truth
.think .differently to avoiding insanity by expecting different results but doing the same thing i’ve always done.
Leaning into discomfort is about taking action: a.k.a. the 72-hour challenge karma. No one builds a reputation or gets results with “what they’re gonna do someday, maybe, (probably not)”.
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What will it feel like when we drive through our neighborhood?
What will it feel like when we walk into our home?
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Middle School play, backstage. Roughly the same year we made our first family of three Glacier trip.
What if you start thinking the opposite about everything you believe at home?
dad
Tradition and dogma imprint idyllic American home life.
Two cats and a dog.
White picket fence.
Couple of kids.
Tire swing on the big Maple tree.
Front porch sitting.
Vegetable garden in the back.
Surrounding the ‘idyllic American life’ is reality.
What if you thought differently?
Take ‘the perfect home’ for example…
No standard to attain.
No ‘keeping up with the Jones’.
No gluttony nor fear of missing out.
A roof over your head is the gift.
Living in America is your gift.
Clean water, drivable roads, flushing toilets, the Food & Drug Administration, public schools, law enforcement, and an endless list of world-class infrastructure and processes. This is the invisible American Dream.
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8-second video: it was time to leave Cinderella Castle at Disney’s Magic Kingdom when the parade music kicked in from the Frontierland Hub bridge. Guess who stayed a few extra minutes?N, W, S, E: Needs, Wants, Stereotypes, and Emotions.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
dad
Some favorite questions:
What’s the best that could happen?
What was your childhood dream?
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Writing five daily, differently-themed (mind, body, spirit, work, home) blog posts became a daily habit in 2009.
dad
“Have been subscribed to Rob Hatch’s weekly email for years. This is a rare reply to ‘social media’ posts. Today’s email he entitled “I Second That!”
I thought I’d weigh in on the topic of journaling, Jeff. Chris talked about his approach last Sunday.
I find immense value in the experience. It has helped me with everything from clearing my head at the start of my day to navigating profound grief to working through concepts and ideas.
Method? What method?”
He wrote on for additional paragraphs and finally asked, “What’s your approach to journaling?”
My reply…
Happy present moment (.hpm), Rob.
Have been faithfully reading your (and Chris’s) weekly email for years.
You both have a style that hasn’t bored me…(Seth and Hugh MacLeod are the other 2…btw, i read them for their content, not their style). Also, there’s something rare about your consistency and determination.
So you asked your audience about journalling, “What’s your approach?” Coincidently, and the only prompt compelling enough to get me to reply to you, is the 15-year milestone approaching on April Fool’s Day…
Started writing five daily, differently-themed blog posts on April Fools Day 2009. The goal was a 100-day self-imposed writer’s bootcamp. Before started, the personal record was two consecutive days.
Made it to 100 days and then discovered that stopping at 100 days seemed silly because of daily writing’s (journalling as you call it) transformational power.
On Monday year 16 starts. Five daily, differently-themed (mind, body, spirit, work, home) blog posts times 15 years is nearly 5,500 consecutive days; over 27,000 posts.
Insane.
Impossible.
Life changing.
Fun.
.hpm
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