The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer
Let me guess: check the incoming. Check email or traffic stats or messages from your boss. Check the tweets you follow or the FB status of friends.
You’ve just surrendered not only a block of time but your freshest, best chance to start something new.
If you’re a tech company or a marketer, your goal is to be the first thing people do when they start their day. If you’re an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/responded/insisted to what happened yesterday.
I love this. We often surrender our most energetic and passion filled enthusiasm for reactionary or trivial tasks.
What would happen if we instead pursued our goals and started our day by challenging ourselves to explore the unknown world and blaze new trails of our own - do the stuff that we feel called to do and not let our focus shift one way or the other; steady in our pursuit and rock solid in our mission. What would happen? Give it a try, I dare you.
(Source: sethgodin.typepad.com)
