I’m sure everyone here is aware of this, so I’d like to send this as a “reminder”. Your environment is either building you up or breaking you down. It’s either pulling you forward or pulling you back. And most people don’t realize it’s happening until years later. Back then, I thought “environment” meant the people around you and the place you live. And it does. But today, our environment also includes something we carry in our pockets all day. Your phone. Your feeds. Your social platforms. Lucky us, we found a positive platform like this. You might not choose every thought you have (which I think you do), but you definitely DO choose what you consume daily. And what you consume becomes what you believe is normal and acceptable. Unfiltered inputs create unfocused outputs. Filter what you consume. 😉 When I started my previous career, I made a decision about social media that honestly changed everything for me. I cleaned it up. I got intentional. I started following people who raised my standard. I removed anything that made me weaker, distracted, or average. And over time, it helped me stay sharper, more focused, and hungrier. Because my environment kept pulling me in the right direction. So here’s your Monday challenge: 1️⃣ Take 5 minutes today and audit your environment. People, places, routines, and especially your feeds. If it’s not helping you become who you want to be, it’s probably helping you stay who you are. Is that what you want? 2️⃣ Quick exercise: I’d love it if we could learn and inspire each other. Post your favorite 1–3 quotes below. The kind of quotes you’d want on a wall, in your notes app, or on your mirror. A quote that INSPIRES you! And if you can, write them down and carry them with you, especially when your motivation goes down.

After going through Bruno’s Time Mastery course, I realized that I didn’t know my 4 quadrants as well as I thought. (check it out here if you haven’t gone through it yet. It’s worth it!) So in January I decided to take it a little more seriously. I used google calendar to track every single thing I did. Color coding each of the 5 categories made it super helpful to visualize. They were: - Health (exercise/sleeping) - Relationships (family/friends) - Growth/Business time - Chores - 9-5 Before I reveal the % breakout for each, the reason why I wanted to do this was because I had AN IDEA of the time I was spending in all the areas, but I wanted to ACTUALLY know. Knowledge is power It also helped me stay accountable by blocking ‘growth work’ and family time in advance so I could plan around those and stick to a schedule the best I could. I try to keep my days as similar as possible with the only changes coming on the weekends when my family time replaces the 9-5 time. Same wake up every day, same bedtime everyday (unless I get sleepy lol). Since I’m a numbers nerd, here is the breakdown of each of the categories by percentage for January: - Health 36% - Relationships 25% - Growth/Business 14% - Chores 5% - 9-5 20% How do you think yours would shake out? It makes sense to me that Health and Relationships is over half, I feel like I’m good there. The Growth/Business is frustrating looking at it from this perspective, but it still comes out to about 25 hours/week. I don’t think I can physically do more right now without disrupting the Health or Relationships. I don’t want to say the growth/business is the most important, but that’s the push I’ve been making recently. So I’m in a stage of finding better uses for this time, rather than more of it I’d love to ‘offload’ the chores and 9-5 lol. The chores would probably free up more family time and the 9-5 would definitely free up more Growth/Business time.

Hey Everyone, Happy Friday! Or, depending on how you feel and what you're doing, perhaps more suitable is 'TGIF!'🙃 Anyways, here is some Friday fun for ya! If you had a super power, what would it be? Use a GIF to describe it! Let's try to guess each other's powers! Cheers! 😁

Hey Everyone, Happy Thursday! I hope you’re crushing this week! I wanted to share something I have been thinking about a bit recently: the human need for meaningful work and creative expression. If I recall correctly, several prominent intellectuals have discussed this / written about it. I think I first came across the concept while reading Noam Chomsky, back in my university days… There was an interesting and very cruel Nazi study I read about in Carnegie’s book, “How to Win Friends and Influence People.” He described how, in a concentration camp, the prisoners were made to move a huge pile of dirt every day from one end of the camp to the other. There was absolutely no purpose to this work, and the task was never complete because every day they were forced to move it again. After a while, some of the prisoners became mentally ill and/or suicidal. The meaningless task (likely compounded with everything else in their environment) literally pushed them over the edge into insanity. That got me thinking again about meaningful work, and its essentialism for our mental, emotional and spiritual health. Would you agree with me that having meaningful work is absolutely essential for human beings, and that without it, we are headed for a dark place? Let me tell you a bit of a story… After I graduated high school, I got my first job, as I decided to take at least a year off before going to college. I worked at a nearby car wire harness factory. Being in Canada, the working conditions were certainly decent – it was clean, the employees got quarterly or bi-annual raises, health benefits, even their birthday off paid! Thus, it was much better than factory jobs in many parts of the world… That said, I remember the nihilism in the place, especially amongst the long-term employees. Several of them had that ‘soulless look’ in their eyes, literally, as they’d extend a wire to cut, load a machine, or assemble a harness for the millionth time. There were also plenty of chain smokers, and a large number of people just looked unhappy in general as they ground through day after day, year after year, at that place. My heart wept for them, and for people around the world who are stuck in such jobs.

Super excited about this week’s message, it really made me pause and reflect, and I hope it does the same for you. Quick updates first: • Big welcome to some of our newest members: @James Rhodes, @Kerry Souter, @Lidia Axe, @Leo Baldwin, @Cecilia Payne, @Graham Whiddett & @Jack Shiller (some of you have been active already, but making it official 😄) • I’m working on having a guest speaker for our Wednesday 7 pm call, focused on Freedom in life. I’ll confirm by tomorrow. • Leadership Launchpad Week 5 is live. If you want access, DM me or check it here. This week’s message comes down to playing the long game. Most people look for shortcuts or a big breakthrough moment, but real progress comes from quiet, repeated decisions over time. And playing the long game starts by asking yourself a few uncomfortable but powerful questions: Who am I, beyond titles and roles? Who am I becoming based on my habits and daily choices? Who will I be in the future? Winning the long game isn’t about perfection. It’s about intentional alignment, small disciplines, clear direction, and consistent action over time. Kudos to @Chris Wendt for a powerful post in @Georgiana D's community about personal growth, and that's exactly what it means to "become" a better version of yourself. So here’s the reflection I’ll leave you with this week: If your current habits stayed exactly the same, would you be proud of the person you’re becoming? PS: Sorry for the long video, that was done in one take 😅