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There’s always something to fill the void with.

If nothing else, education.

What we do with our downtime is what separates us from our peers.

Stay Positive & The Time Is Yours

It means that everyone is living a complex and interesting life as your own.

Another way to look at it is that if you put the crap you’re dealing with in a pile and so did everyone else, you would probably take your own crap back instead of dealing with theirs.

And at the very root of it: we’re all not so different when it comes to core emotions.

Stay Positive & Pass Along The Slice Of Humble Pie?

Could it be anything but that when we’re on the path of growth?

Boiled down it’s merely that something isn’t something else until it is.

Feel it, sure. But don’t let it stop you from continuing.

Stay Positive & Onward

There’s something incredibly comforting about being directionally correct. Perhaps it’s a hiccup of reassurance, but nonetheless, it’s empowering for two reasons: one is that you get to keep the momentum going and two you can quickly and more easily pivot a bit if you need.

Here’s a great question to ask before ending your next meeting. Does everyone feel we’re at least in the right direction here?

Stay Positive & Grasp The Compass

It’s nearly a default setting that people will want more.

They’ll say you’re not present enough and you should show face more.

They’ll say you need more in savings before they’ll offer you the loan.

They’ll say you’re not trying hard enough.

It’s so easy to get sucked into trying to solve that for that person or group, but I warn you against it.

First: They’re the minority. If you can unstick yourself from the guilt of not being enough to the person calling you out, you’ll notice very quickly that there are many others who wouldn’t agree.

Second: Most who go into solve it don’t do it with their heart; they do it to check a box or because they feel they have to. (Not an contagiously inspiring source of energy there!)

Sometimes more is better, but rarely.

Stay Positive & Is What They Are Asking More For Actually What They Even Want?!

One way you can measure success is by what it looks like to you. If it looks like having a good amount of family time, then that’s easy to measure.

Another way to measure success is assigning a dollar amount to what you bring in each month.

Yet another way could simply be how many nights you go to bed feeling fulfilled about your day.

All those measurements might be the right answer. None of them is certainly not the right answer.

The truth of it is having an answer to how you’re measuring success is the right answer.

Anything short of having an answer is simply asking for frustration, pain, and lackluster emotions.

Stay Positive & Assign A Measurement Today

In the NCAA tournament alone, there were roughly 46 true buzzer-beaters from 1944 to 2025 and there have only been a total of 820 game-winning buzzer-beaters in NBA history (that’s fewer than 1.2% of all NBA games).

Relying on a buzzer-beater isn’t a smart strategy. Nor is practicing for it if you’re practicing at the expense of time you could be practicing another more impactful strategy.

Stay Positive & Play Toward Your Chances