It is easy to get caught up in checking social media, email and other busywork and it feels like we are really getting stuff done. Being able to identify those times and refocus is a challenge. Ishita Gupta says that "every day is a new chance to choose" (Godin 2010, 206). Adam Robinson, Chess master and investor asks himself the question, "Am I rehearsing my best self?" If the answer is no, then how does one reset? Robinson breaks it down to a granular level when he identified there are 86,400 seconds in a day and every one of them can be used to reset our actions and attentions and recover to become our best selves (Ferriss 192). One way to do that is to create a personal mission statement to check actions against. That mission statement should be flexible enough to be used in school, at work, and with friends and family.
Ferriss, Timothy. Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2018.
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