✨ Sunday Shift: Sharpening the Saw
Happy Sunday Shift day. Happy reflection time. Happy sharpening-of-the-saw day. ​ 🌟 The people who sharpen the saw are always further ahead than those who just keep forcing it by brute force. 🌟 In your heart of hearts, you already know there's more than one way. ​ That expression, sharpening the saw, comes straight from Stephen Covey. Any other Stephen Covey fans here? ​ I read the teenage version of this book 7 habits of highly effective people/teens when I was quite young, and it had a pretty influential impact on the way I started to view things. One of the last chapters is about sharpening the saw. ​ We can just keep working hard, hard, hard with a dull saw... and barely make any progress. Sharpening the saw means taking the time to stop, sharpen the saw, so you can go back to work with a sharp saw. And the people who sharpen the saw are always further ahead than the ones forcing it by brute force. ​ That's what the Sunday Shift is about. Not in some All day Sunday kind of commitment... a genuine, fifteen-minute reflection. ​ I'm still sometimes searching for the words to express my vision for this space. There are a ton of PMOS and metabolic spaces out there that sell you certain promised outcomes. Do x, y, z and you'll get this result. And I think, in your heart of hearts, you already know there's more than one way. ​ That's why this space is different. There are ideas here to explore. Ideas that might be more important, or less important, to you based on where you are in your journey. Instead of stripping that autonomy and making you dependent on an external force, I want this to be a place where you start to believe in yourself, trust yourself, learn how to discern, how to critically think, and how to self-lead your next best action. ​ And welcome to the Sunday Shift. ​ ──────────────────────────── ✅ THE EASIEST WAY IN (self-led) One very specific focus, with flexible outcomes. ──────────────────────────── ​ A Good / Better / Best framework, so we have a built-in strategy for goal-setting that isn't all-or-nothing thinking by design. It's already designed for a hard week, an average week, and a week where things are just clicking and you get to push the limits on that goal.