Your body is the most visible proof of your standard right now. Not your goals. Not your intentions. Not what you are planning to do next month. What your body looks like and how it feels today is the result of every decision you have made up to this point. That is not a judgment. That is just how it works. Today the practice is simple. Look at your body honestly and score your physical standard right now from 1 to 10. Not the number you want... The real number. Then do one thing today that moves that number in the right direction. Train. Eat clean. Sleep on time. Pick the one that matters most for you today and go do it. Tonight come back here and post two things. Your honest score and what you did about it.

Yesterday you made one decision. Today you protect the most important hour of your day. Wake up before the business wakes up. Before the phone. Before the notifications. Before anyone needs anything from you. 30 minutes. Move your body first. Do not look at your phone until you have done something for yourself. Most men give the best hours of their day to everyone else and run on whatever is left. That is not a standard. That is a habit you built without realizing it. The way you start the day is the standard that runs the rest of it. Tonight come back here and post one word describing how your morning went. That is it. One word. Go.

Put the phone down an hour earlier than you normally would tonight. Be fully present with your family. Not performing presence. Actually present. Your family does not need more of your time. They need the best version of you during the time you give them. A man who holds a physical standard holds one at home too. Post one thing you did tonight to show up differently.

Today you make one physical decision that the old version of you would have skipped. One workout. One meal. One early wake-up. One cold shower. Pick one thing and hold it. Do not overthink it. Do not wait until tomorrow. Pick the one thing right now and go do it. Tonight come back here and post what you did. One sentence. That is accountability. The man you are becoming is not built by a plan. He is built by the decisions he makes when nothing is forcing him to. Go.

Interestingly its 1:42 like it was yesterday when I checked in.. today was a dynamic day... I had my first mentoring session with world-renowned motivational speaker Les Brown. I cant express how valuable this sessions was for me in my own personal growth and development. At age 81 he didn't skip a beat. He was just as dynamic and sharp as ever, spouting out quotes from great leaders like it was nothing. Interestingly he's re-iterated some of the same little pearls of wisdom that Jason has also been providing to us. Here are some pearls of wisdom from mouth of 81 year old Les Brown. ---Get someone to teach you what they have mastered. ---You net worth and income will be within 2-3K from the group for which you participate ---You don’t get what you want in life, You get in life what you are ---There’s no success without successors --- Building new strategic relationships is your path to greater success ---Jump out of line….Don't follow the pack My first assignment is to create a 1 minute powerful speech that resonates with an audience. All I can think of is WTF have I gotten myself into. This is 7 months of weekly sessions for the next 7 months all on improving my ability to communicate and persuade an audience. Its coming just in time as I am suppose to deliver a talk in front of 2-3K people at Gartner's Enterprise Risk, Audit and Compliance conference. Feels like I'm drinking from a firehose.. but that wont be for long. I'll rise to the challenge