This time of year gyms around the world are crowded. By March they won’t be. Humans, apparently, lose their resolve to build a healthy/physical life about as fast as they gained it.
Yesterday in practice 23 with the team of six, we looked back. We slowed down and reflected about each of our favorite memories from 2012. We wrote them out, spoke them to each other. Emotions ran wild as human after human opened up and revealed the fertile soil that lay just beneath the surface. Everybody gained energy from each other.
We ended with me exhorting the team of six to challenge and encourage each other to fertilize the rich soil 2012 unearthed. Like most humans, the resolve to build something begins by going back. Back to recall what gave us energy and the resolve to do more, more, and more of it. And, back to recall what took our energy and the resolve to do less, less, and even less.
The most enduring resolutions begin by going back and remembering, FIRST. Recall, recount, and resolve to do more in 2013 of what most energized you in 2012. As you gain more energy from fertilizing good, rich soil within, you might just gain the resolve to tackle a bad habit, get to the gym, quit smoking, or finish that basement project you’ve been putting off. Who knows, maybe you’ll even decide to write a book.
Slow down and reflect. Write out the good, bad, and ugly of 2012. Capture your favorite holiday memories. Capture your favorite memories from the entire year. Throw them up on paper. Find the melody line. Resolve to do more, more, more. And, less, less, less, huh kman.
My favorite memory from 2012 was a card from our son, Taylor. He wrote me a note I will hold onto forever. His note told me he knows me, he understands me, and he loves me, anyway. He told me his writing took two minutes. Amazing. 365 days worth of living are but a blur; 120 seconds seared me.
Forever.
God, thank you for your rich blessings that are beyond compare. God, help me to give, give, give until there is nothing left to 2013. Your economy is the one I want. God, help me turn my economic indicators upside down. God, help me do what makes no sense except to you.
God, help me…
BUILT TO LEAD 