Climb Higher, Shine Brighter

Here’s how we use The Grind to the advantage of ourselves and the benefit of those around us. We face reality. We choose a quality to build. We embrace the hard work of grinding.

What if we didn’t change one bit during The Grind?

There are few decisions more important than who you emulate. Pick role models who are safe and sane to be around.

Use nemeses as part of your growth.

Why would anyone ever love The Grind, a period of day-after-day rigor? It can seem monotonous. We can get irritated by the repetition. But just look at a rock at the seashore. It spends countless hours being rubbed by sand as the waves move over it. Slowly,...

Here’s how we get the most from this period in front of us, this grind. We embrace it.

In a topsy, turvy world, WYSIWYG – what you see is what you get – is always the right answer.

Play your formal role as well as you can. But remember that your deeper job is to become a person people feel safe and sane to be around.

Use The Grind to become the kind of person that folks can lean on when they start to falter. That’s our role and it’s essential.

There’s no wasted time for the person who is becoming the best version of themselves. Even in The Grind. Especially in The Grind.

What if we looked through our LinkedIn connections not for those we can leverage, but for people we’d like to rub off on us?

If we looked at your life today, who would we name as your teachers?