Hey 👋🏽,

I started over on a Sunday.

Starting over starts with the awareness that something isn’t quite right. You need to make a change.

Change can be painful, so it’s often easier to dismiss the awareness than pay attention to it. Pay attention to it.

Tuning into time-to-make-a-change awareness leads to exploration, helping you figure out what you need to do to start over.

For me, exploration made my to do list explode:

🚗Get a drivers license
💼Find a new job
🏡Buy a house

The stuff I needed to do to start over felt so big, it almost stopped me from starting. I added an item to the top of my list:

🗣Say it out loud

There was no action before that Sunday, just discovery. Discovery gave shape to an amorphous thing, demystifying beginning again.

As it turned out, all that starting over required was turning thoughts and feelings into a loose plan, and that plan into spoken words. Decisions.

Decisions acknowledge your unrealized potential, and commit you to pursuing fulfillment. Your Personal Legend.

Recognizing your own potential inspires action, which helps you recognize your own potential and inspire more action. It’s a virtuous circle.

In business and in life, if there’s something you need to start over on, think it, write it, say it, do it. Take a step, however small. Don’t wait until some future Sunday.

If it feels to big, remember: you’re never really starting over, you’re just starting again.

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Here are a few things I enjoyed this week:

🧠 Pmarca guide to personal productivity Pmarca, 13m

My schedule looks like a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle. I ignored 50% of the puzzle this week in search of a flow state, one I found around 11pm on Thursday night. Entrepreneur, investor and software engineer Marc Andreessen offers an alternative approach to productivity, advocating for no scheduling, structured procrastination and minimal phone calls.

❤️ the story of a curious phone call Tim Ferris, 6m

This week’s 5-Bullet Friday featured a story from college writing instructor Auburn Sandstrom. After actively rejecting privilege, she watches her life derail. She finds light through a late night phone call.

🚶🏽‍♀️collect sand Second Breakfast, 1m

Even if my opening story stirred some awareness, you may have already brushed it aside. “If you’re looking for a sign, this is it” feels trite, doesn’t it? Just because something is trite doesn’t mean it isn’t true or worthwhile, so with “it’s too late to collect sand,” I end where I began.

I see you, I love you, let’s have a great week.

P.S. on my blog this week how to make Mondays suck less with agile 3m

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