I’m going to keep this one brief.
Perhaps because yesterday was a Bottom 10% Day for me.
Perhaps because this is the first June edition of Ground Control.
Who knows? It is Gemini season so let’s blame it on the duality of us Geminis.
Anyway,
Yesterday was tough.
For any specific reason? No, not really.
But it definitely was.
Typically, when I have these days, I have a tendency to throw me into a bit of a tailspin.
I find myself wondering if I’m doing something wrong? If I need to be more strategic in my planning? If I need to be sterner with myself?
It seems that when we move through these moments of sub optimal performance, we tend to get self-critical real fast.
I always just assumed that this was par for the course and ultimately a product of my own laziness.
Typically I don’t have any kind of clear understanding of how I got here and how to get out.
It blows in like a thunderstorm and blows out shortly there after; until the next storm.
I was mindlessly scrolling LinkedIn today when I came across this Alex Hormozi video where he talks about Bottom 10% Days.
As with all things Hormozi, he took an extremely analytical approach and looked at it from a percentage perspective.
Through that lens two things became obvious quite quickly.
First, when you factor in the overall percentage these “bottom” days represent compared to “top” days it isn’t a significant amount of time.
And
Second, rather than thinking that we need to change our operating strategy to overcome these bottom days we should instead evolve our thinking to better tolerate when they arrive.
I don’t know why this has to be so profound, but it is.
Our culture has harnessed us into a place where any brief reprieve from running at full tilt raises the alarm.
In a lot of ways, we’ve lost the ability to be gentle with ourselves in exchange for an expectation of constant productivity, progress, and perseverance.
I wish it wasn’t this way but it is.
I don’t know what point I’m trying to prove with today’s edition aside from to say:
If this is you and this sentiment resonates, I’d encourage you to give yourself space the next time the clouds roll in.
Give yourself a moment to recognize that you’re a human being and that you do not have a responsibility to always run full throttle.
Ultimately, my goal is to continue focusing on this pursuit.
It’s not a switch that I can just turn on.
It’s going to take practice. Repetitions.
But I’m going to get there sooner than later.
And then once I’ve arrived, I’ll get back to it.
Until next time.
This is Ground Control
Patrick
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