THE MONDAY LEADOFF

Hi my friend 🫡

Mistakes can be beneficial or catastrophic.

Here are 11 ideas that I've learned about mistakes, liabilities, and problems:

1. Becoming an asset starts with not being a liability; the people closest to you must know they can count on you.
2. Bad habits are easy to acquire, especially when there is a delay between action and consequence.
3. The formula for failure is a few small errors consistently repeated.
4. Good choices repeatedly make time your friend, bad ones make it your enemy.
5. "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself- and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard Feynman
6. The recipe for accumulated disaster: give the best of ourselves to the least important things, and the worst of ourselves to the most important things.
7. If you don't get ideal results, the world is telling you two things: that you were unlucky, or your ideas about how things work are wrong.
8. If you want to see whether your thinking is wrong - make it visible.
9. Mistakes present a choice: update ideas or keep believing what you've always believed.
10. When we react without reason, we cause more problems than we solve.
11. The most critical step in any decision-making process is to get the problem right.

RULES OF THUMB

(Credit: Modern Wisdom)

When deciding what to spend time on at practice, ask yourself: Does this matter to the teams' success?

(Credit: Claire Huges Johnson)

Make the implicit, explicit

WHAT'S BEEN WORKING

1.

4-7-8 Breathing 

This is a solid real-time stress reduction method. It's helped me become more present, slow my heart rate, and think clearly. I've known about it for years but finally started integrating it.

QUOTE I'M PONDERING

"Happy is he who can improve others not just when he is in their presence, but even when he is in their thoughts"

-Seneca

Nothing but the best,

Matt 🎯

P.S. The highest form of leverage is reputation. What is one thing you can do to improve/boost your reputation?