A couple of weekends ago, the Claude Squad has gone on a full family bike ride. Obviously the kids aren’t getting younger. We went and bought some bikes for not just the boys, but for Tiff and I. We went on a family bike ride today, which was super cool.
It was cool to kind of see that they just had so much fun riding fast. It’s the first time I’ve ridden a bike in a while. I’ve ridden a road bike in the last couple years, but got a mountain bike, something to just be able to putz around in, in the neighborhood with the boys and take the trails. There are some really cool walking trails by the house. But that was just really cool to see happen – the Claude Squad family bike ride. Really cool experience.
I’ve been kind of going off in some of my client groups with the money mindset, the champion circle with my one-on-one clients. I’ve made some posts about it. We as people, we as high performers, we as entrepreneurs, we as people that want to accomplish really fucking anything, we need to operate with more intentionality with the decisions we make, with the way we show up, with the way we communicate, the way we fuel ourself, the way we feel, the way we speak, the way we wake up, the way we work out, the way we hydrate. Everybody always talks about how time is the most valuable asset, right? We can’t make more time. Make more money, can’t make more time, right? We hear that all the time. But the reality is how intentional are you with those minutes, those seconds, those decisions you have to make because you can’t get that time back?
You can’t fuck off all day on Sunday and get that Sunday back to prepare for the week. You can’t fuck off all quarter and think you’re going to be ready for beach season. You can’t fuck off all year and think you’re going to hit your targets. But really where I think people miss it is they’re not intentional with the next second, the next decision, the next idea, the next preparedness. Like the way that you show up, the way that you operate, the way that you prepare your meeting notes, the way that you prepare for your employee meetings, the way that you prepare for your whatever. The time is the dwelling, is the dwindling asset. But what you’re doing with that time I think is actually more important.
Spending time and doing things you want to be doing, great. Spending time doing certain activities, great. But how intentional are you with every decision? How intentional are you showing up? How intentional are you with your relationships? How intentional are you with your body language? How intentional are you with your personal hygiene? How intentional are you with how you show up for your people, for your family, for your spouse? It’s not just sometimes. It’s every fucking time. It’s not just when you feel like it. It’s every fucking time. It’s not just when all the conditions are perfect. It’s every fucking time. Look back at the last seven days. Recount every decision you made, and did those decisions align with what you say you want? If you have big visions or big dreams for your life and I say, “Show me your calendar from yesterday. Show me your task list from yesterday. Show me how intentional you are preparing and organizing and executing on every move to make sure that it happens.”
If you can’t show me your intentional, if you can’t show me you’re organized in your day, if you can’t show me a completed task list, I’m going to tell you your full of shit. Talked about it on Friday’s fire. But I challenge you this week to not just say, I’m going to. Make the list. Make the time blocks. Make the time. Dedicate the effort. I’m not going to get off the high horse on this one because I see so many people who talk a lot about what they’re going to do, but are like their actions and their moves and their decisions and the time they spend inadequately approaching those things is disappointing. I’m seeing it right now in the people in my programs who are taking action or that are being ultra intentional with their decision making, ultra intentional with what they’re doing it. It’s been absolutely life changing.
So get out there, ride your bike with your kids, walk through the woods with them, spend some time with them. Get passionate about something they’re passionate about. Get passionate about something your wife’s passionate about, your husband’s passionate about. But ultimately just get intentional with how you’re approaching your days, how you’re approaching your time, how you’re approaching the efforts. It’s in your interest. It’s in your interest to be able to look back at a time period and say, I nailed it. I made a post… awhile back on Facebook, by the way. But I made a post that I’ve never been more confident in who I am and what I’m trying to do, but also I’ve never been more afraid of what blind spots I might not be thinking about. I think it’s a good balance right now. It keeps me focused, organized, and disciplined, while also enjoying the journey a little bit more than I have in the past.
But the only way to overcome the fear, the only way to overcome the anxiety, the only way to overcome the depression, the only way to overcome whatever it is, is to take action. When you don’t take action intentionally, and it can actually make it worse because you take action and you’re like, fuck I didn’t do that right, or I didn’t do it as well as I could have, or I let somebody down because I wasn’t focused or whatever it is.
Get your mission, your vision, your core values down, pat, and then make every decision based on that, please.
You’ll thank yourself later.
Get out there. Win fast, win often this week.
Zero doubt.
Go be the best version of yourself.
You’ll be proud of who it is, and you’ll thank yourself for making the decision to do it.
