So, what are you going to build in 2023?

We forget - so its worth remembering.

So a new year is here. A different type of new year.

So I ask myself - what am I going to start doing in 2023? Stop doing? Keep doing?

A great mentor of mine Bo Eason talks about thinking?of new years not in terms of having resolutions. But what you’re building. Building for. Building towards.

And how will one figure that out?

Well, what are you always frustrated about? Always upset about. Always complaining about.

Not having a great family. A great house. A great business. A great team. Great health. Whatever.

“I could never find the car that I dreamed of. So I decided to build it myself.”

Dr Ferdinand Porsche, Founder of Porsche.

Will this be the year where we will be frustrated and victimised by the non-fulfilment of our dreams, especially since no one else is going to build them? Or will we resolve on our marching orders for what needs to happen with who, to make them happen? Even if we don’t know exactly how to do so at this time. Even if it take a long time. A very long time. Rome wasn’t built in a day...

How loyal will we be to our dreams?

99% are loyal to others' dreams - and then find satisfaction with whining and critiquing it after they’ve ‘consumed’ it. But never having the courage and endurance to build it themselves. Or worrying that our dream is not the right one. Not good enough.

As long as the dream's clear in your mind, its a good starting point. Getting into motion and momentum is critical. If its not the right one or good one, it will reveal itself to us along the way - we'll get clues and insights, to reshape it. We’ll get to the best by eliminating things along the way, not by adding or accumulating.

Question thus is whether and how we are going to keep moving, so we give ourselves a chance to the clues that await on the other side of the peak, the door, the river?

And in all this, having the feeling that the locus of control is with us, and that being the foundation for getting into flow and attaining peak performance.

The storm isn’t going away - conflicts, currency shifts, stock market swings, climate debates, health emergencies, etc.

The question is how are we going to keep ourselves in the eye of the storm? That center of calm. Not through smarts and logic. But through love, truth and integrity. And ever indexing to keep stay centred. Since the center keeps shifting.

So what are you going to build in 2023?

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