I did a guest on another podcast and they asked me what were three things that I did that helped keep me choking along in my maximum level of coriness.

And they didn't phrase it like that. Thank God.

But I wanted to share it with you today, you know, here because I feel like it was, um,

it resonated, you know, resonated and it made sense.

So the first thing is staying focused.

You know, it's really important to me to stay focused because there's so much distraction in life,

whether it be coming from inside of our own heads or from outside in the world. You know, there are always

things to do. There's always distractions in the narratives and the stories in our

minds pulling us in various which ways. There's distractions in in our

stories in our minds, which ways. The distractions in life and just a digital era

of course having just our nervous systems blasted

with constant algorithmic heat-seeking missiles at all times.

And so it can make it very easy to just have your attention pulled in all these different directions and to just become exhausted by that and ultimately to do what you can to just kind of keep everything going as far as keeping the bills paid,

trying to enjoy yourself a little bit, and keep your head above water, you know.

But to me, like really staying focused and being intentional about it is really viable because it makes easy to where you don't lose sight of what your goals are and what's actually

important in your life. Because as I said, it's easy to get just drawn into kind of the mundane

in the everyday but staying focused and intentionally like just

sitting back taking a meds big, what am I doing? Like what, how am I using my energy and am I applying

it towards the things I want to move forward and to kind of keep pushing ahead in my life.

Am I managing my time and am I choosing to use my energy on the things that will matter to me in a year or in five years as opposed to the things

that seem to matter just in the moment for a few seconds.

And being clear about that is just really, really useful

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