Until you make the unconscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Carl Jung.

Welcome to your world within daily.

Thank you. And that quote reveals an important truth.

There's a lot of things we do that we're not cognizant of, that we're not aware of.

And simply lacking that awareness

means we don't have the ability to fix to change or control what's going on. It just sort of

happens. And we're along for the ride. I always talk about how easy it is to look at the people

around us, right?

When when people ask for advice.

It's so easy to look at the problem objectively, you know, and break it down and explain

why things are happening and, you know, the pros and cons of what's going on.

And it just seems so apparent

and so obvious that you can lend that hand. And then for yourself, you know, you can miss some

of those very same things because there's that emotional attachment and decision making

that we're not even aware of. There's that self-awareness that we're not even in

tune with. And understanding that is important, right? Understanding that allows us to be more

methodical than what we're doing. A few weeks ago on my books to business podcast, we looked at

principles by Ray Dalio, and he had a concept that I really liked.

He talks about proximal causes versus root causes. And proximal causes are the small things, right?

Usually verbs. So I forgot to check the train schedule. And that's usually where we land, right? Oh, I forgot to check

the schedule. Or I missed something. But root causes are the why. They're usually the adjectives.

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