3 Points to Ponder
- We are all in need of a personal audit every now and then. Take a practical look at your last month’s calendar, spending receipts, and conversations. What story do they tell about what you truly prioritize? Where is the alignment, and where is the disconnect?
- Pillars create structural integrity, and if built correctly, can withstand life’s earthquakes. What are the essential pillars in your life that must remain standing for you to feel whole? Are you actively reinforcing those pillars?
- Each of us has a next sentence. Based on our daily choices, what is one intentional action you can take this week to more purposefully write the next sentence of your story in the direction of the person you are becoming?
2 Quotes to Share
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pike
“We are so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget the ordinary is where life truly resides.” – Brené Brown
1 Story of Impact
In the past 30 days, I’ve had numerous friends receive cancer diagnoses. I’m at the age where, it seems, every week brings a new confrontation with this demon. I’ve walked beside multiple friends as they’ve said goodbye to a loved one and navigated everything that follows. These are earthquake events. They shake the core of a life, and in the stillness that follows, the landscape of what matters is permanently altered. The relentless pursuit of the next big thing, the perfect car or home, the noise of acquisition – it all falls silent. In that quiet, you can finally hear the questions that matter. The focal points snap into sharp relief: the laughter of family, the connection of unwavering faith, and the quiet determination to build a legacy that is passed on. It was in one of those quiet moments that a friend, his own story terminal, asked a haunting question that now resonates with me: “Why was I chasing that?” His question forces us all to look in the mirror. If someone followed you for a week, what would their observations reveal about what is important to you? Does your calendar, your budget, your daily energy reflect the answer you hope they’d find? We all chase something. The critical question is whether it has meaning that can withstand the shaking of our own earthquake events. None of us can write the ending of our story, but we can choose to live each moment with the intention of who we are becoming. And if we do, the ending writes itself.
